But when it went on sale and suddenly 10,000 copies were sold at $25 each (10,000 x $25), the gross sale is $250,000. With the steam sale, it just jumped up to 10,000.įor your mathematical digestion, in this scenario, the developer was only getting $16000 a month from selling at retail value(400 x $40). Now again, while it's not as much as 10,000 at retail value, the developer may have only been selling 300-400 copies of that game per month. $25 and all of a sudden, 10,000 copies fly of the shelves in an hour and a portion goes to the developer. A game might be year old and not make much sales anymore because its still at a pretty steep retail price of, say, $40.

This method is also why Steam is so successful. While it may not be as much as 10,000 at retail value, it's a safer route because you never know how long it'll take to sell 10,000 copies at retail value. Most developers are down with this because its an instant influx of cash.

so how about we buy 10,000 copies at a discounted price giving you a GUARANTEE immediate profit. Selling 10,000 copies of your game at retail price might be a little hard. The concept of Wholesale is basically saying, 'Hey Developer. They get orders, and send the orders automatically to the developers who in part send keys back for them to give to the customers.Īnd when they're not GIVEN keys, they buy wholesale price from developers. Its called Humble Bundle because developers OFFER them keys to sell at low prices. PlatinumRooster: +KageNekoSamax They're certified re-sellers. 'Justin Morssink': Thank god my PvZ key is still valid, but then again, I did buy it with G2A shield. 'KageNekoSamax': what about humble bundle and bundlestars? Only buy from the company g2a, then it's safe! 'MrIceDr4gon': The only stolen keys are coming from the g2a marketplace, where every user can sell a key. Look ANYWHERE without a developer/publisher tagline and you'll find plenty of situations where people don't get refunds when their keys don't work because it's an 'incurred risk'. G2A offered refunds this time because the big boys stepped up. G2A won't get their hands dirty with the actual work, but they willingly take these keys and sell them knowing their background. Some keys are actually achieved by stolen credit cards too. Primarily games that aren't globally locked in other countries. Physical shipments get stolen constantly. You can look up multiple older accounts of people getting keys revoked. They get stolen all the time and sold for a massive discount.

EA is the only one to have gone through an authentication run with it and snagged it. PlatinumRooster: They have hundreds of thousands of stolen keys. Don't buy EA games from them and it is ok.

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