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On the afternoon of March 1st, US Eastern Time, a round table meeting of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) was held at the Moscone Conference Center in San Francisco, California. During the audience questioning period, the controversial digital game activation code sales platform vendor G2A sent an employee to the microphone to make an accusation against the guest at the round table, independent game developer tinyBuild GAMES CEO Alex Nichiporchik, claiming that it was spreading around the company.

Rumors. Before the venue had not evolved into a battle, the host immediately cut off the microphone signal of the questioner.

Marius Mirek, G2A overseas marketing expert who is speaking a family that has already set up a beam Last year, on June 22, 2016, Alex Nichiporchik publicly accused G2A of selling an illegal game key of unknown origin at a price below the market price, causing tinyBuild GAMES to lose approximately $450,000. Alex Nichiporchik wrote in a blog post (now deleted) on the tinyBuild official website: Websites such as G2A are fueling economic fraud crimes, where dealers sell mostly game keys bought by stolen credit cards.

Websites like G2A are facilitating a fraud-fueled economy where key resellers are being hit with tons of stolen credit card transactions.

On the day of the allegations, G2A responded quickly, issued several defense statements, and strongly urged tinyBuild to provide more information (including a list of suspicious keys) within three days to confirm the allegations. TinyBuild subsequently refused because G2A would abuse this information.

Then the two began to attack each other, and their supporters also set off a battle on the Internet. This incident alarmed the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), the organizer and founder of the Game Developers Conference. The International Game Developers Association released a statement saying it would re-evaluate its partnership with G2A, which had previously sponsored some of the upcoming Game Developers Conference booths in 2017.

What's more embarrassing is that G2A was in contact with tinyBuild at the time, hoping it would become a platform supplier.

TinyBuild is an excellent independent game developer and publisher. It has a number of high-profile boutique games, such as "Fighting Club", a boxer simulation game "fight club"; very popular test technology The racing game "SpeedRunners"; and the topical heavy-mouth game "Sick Jiao Simulator" will also be released by TinyBuild.

G2A's "Taobao" mode After the incident, G2A CEO Bartosz Skwarczek said in an interview that G2A is not a dealer. "We are adopting eBay business model and have more than 200,000 third-party sellers; G2A is not buying products from them and selling them to Players, but just provide a trading platform."

The general idea is: we don't sell games, we are just the porters of the activation code, the problem with the key is not our pot.

In fact, the early G2A had been officially self-employed for some time, but now the business has been cancelled. At present, G2A no longer has its own inventory, but as a platform to earn a certain percentage of the transaction amount of profit. What the tinyBuild CEO slammed was the "black card" problem caused by the unknown source activation code in this C2C mode.

"Black card" does not refer to the kind of special credit card that the rich people often use to symbolize identity. In the game circle, "black card" refers to the stolen credit card. After hacking a number of credit card thieves to buy a large number of digital games, the hackers then sold them to low-cost temptations and sold them to many cheap players. After the stolen credit card owner discovers, contact the card issuer and the police, the money will be recovered, or not sent from the bank to the game seller.

Alex Nichiporchik found that a large number of sold games did not receive the money from the bank, and traced the G2A platform that reselled the activation

codes. The source of the earlier thing is that IndieGameStand, the official authorized dealer of tinyBuild, published in March 2016 a blog titled "How Steam key reselling is killing the little guys", IndieGameStand The article details the details of the operation of the "black card" and accused websites such as G2A, Fast2Play, and Pingwin of setting up a whole set of sales ecosystem for the criminals.

G2A sales have grown rapidly. Image source: IndieGameStand In a sense, according to Alex Nichiporchik and his dealers, G2A is helping credit card theft criminals to monetize, and is a thoroughly sold website.

After encountering a black card, large platforms such as Steam, Origin, and App Store can cancel the order to purchase the game using "black card". Even if the "black card" that has already been stored in the store purchases the product, the stop loss can be deleted and the related account can be warned. And stop processing. But developers like tinyBuild, which sells their own retail Keys, have little way to recover the products that have already been activated. If other platforms activate the products, tens of thousands of revocation lists will also cost a lot to implement.

Dealer IndieGameStand estimates that it does not include costly labor costs and website security maintenance. The direct loss of “black card� to its own website is $12,000; the developer tinyBuild is even worse, they lost $450,000 and a lot of profits flowed in. The hacker and G2A pockets.

Alex Nichiporchik's damage based on G2A sales from his own games Dance with "black card" If you want to clarify the hat of your own economic crimes, G2A must come up with a sufficiently sound system. Before Alex Nichiporchik's attack, G2A had almost no measures to restrain the "black card". It only had a paid protection shield service, but it was not a "black card" for the activation code provided by the seller. Protective effects. Players are also unable to claim compensation from G2A for the activation of the activated product.

After the event continued to ferment, the G2A attitude softened slightly and updated the policy to verify the identity of the trader. G2A regrets that tinyBuild refused to provide suspicious game keys to itself, and claimed that only by carefully comparing these keys with the G2A market database, the problem can be found and the information returned to tinyBuild.

However, Alex Nichiporchik immediately refuted that he believes that G2A's "cooperation" is not just shared key information, but also wants TinBuild to join G2A's payment solution G2A PAY, so as to gain more profits and gain more control. In the statement sent by G2A to the Russian website Kanobu, it seems to have verified this statement: G2A is not responsible for the vulnerability of the billing system. We are deeply sorry that tinyBuild's own store has become the target of attack, which has affected our negotiation process. But we still hope that both sides can return to the role of communication, and the door to cooperation of G2A will always be open.

G2A.COM ... is not responsible for the vulnerability of other billing systems. We are very sorry that TinyBuild's own shop was a target for these attacks and that this incident affected our negotiation process. We hope to resume good communication because G2A is an Open door for cooperation.

But quite awkwardly, game media Polygon revealed in a report that G2A asked them to ignore the last paragraph of the statement: We sincerely invite all game manufacturers who have any questions about the refund policy to join G2A PAY with 100% security and free of charge. The cost of any refund will be borne by G2A. Then we invite every developer and publisher that has any problem with charge backs to start using G2A Pay, free of charge with 100% security and all cost of any charge backs will be covered by G2A. What happened in fact, we also know, G2A did not admit its statement afterwards, nor did it compensate TinyBuild for the $450,000 loss caused by credit card refusal. Before the public broke the news, Alex Nichiporchik asked

G2A if he would compensate his company for losses, but G2A categorically rejected him: I can tell you very clearly that there will be no compensation. If you suspect that the keys were purchased using stolen credit cards, we would be happy to help, of course, in the case of tinyBuild and G2A working together. You claim that many activation codes are purchased with stolen credit cards, and we will check if this is the case, but I doubt that there is such a large amount.

I can tell you that no compensation will be given. If you suspect that these codes where all chargebacks aka fraud/stolen credit card purchases I would be happy to look into that however I will say this requires Tiny Build to want to work with G2A. Both in that you need to revoke the keys you will be claiming as stolen from the players who now own and supply myself with the codes you suspect being a part of this. We will check to see if that is the case but I doubt that Codes with such large numbers would be that way.

The two are in a bad relationship, and cooperation is almost impossible. Although G2A has already launched services directly purchased from developers, it is unknown that the sellers of the source still account for the vast majority.

G2A CEO Bartosz Skwarczek (left) and Robert H. McCooey Jr (right), senior vice president of NASDAQ's listing services After a lot of skepticism, G2A is arguing and is busy building imagery around the world, including sponsoring the GDC booth, the e-sports team Navi, the game video studio DOTA WTF, and even being smashed out even "G2A and US President Barack Obama in the Southwest (G2A) .COM and US President Barack Obama Were Present During South By South West) "The press release of the title has also been distributed to foreign media.

Unlucky manufacturers The reality is that such C2C digital trading websites are almost impossible to provide guarantees for formal sources. In 2015, G2A competitor Kinguin cooperated with the media to conduct a fact-finding investigation. The reporter traced the transaction between an Italian seller and a Dutch buyer and found that the real source of this key came from a Steam anonymous player who claimed I am from Venezuela. We know that Steam has a strict cross-regional policy. If a high-priced zone account activates a low-cost zone game, the account will be converted to a low-priced zone account or even a title. Even if there is no "black card", the unlucky buyer may be "out of the country", and the store page is facing the daily currency symbol.

G2A is known as the global digital game store, and it does. G2A even has a special Chinese webpage, so there are also many Chinese players. The incident that caused the storm in China was that in 2015, Ubisoft cancelled a large number of CDKeys. Many of them bought game players at an affordable price and asked Ubisoft, but Ubisoft claimed that there was nothing wrong with it.

The CDKeys that were deauthorized were "no." legal. Websites selling these keys, G2A and Kinguin, subsequently responded that Ubisoft had “grabbed money,” but closed the question of “CDkey illegal” accused by Ubisoft.

In March of the same year, the player "Midnight Town" posted on the SteamCN forum, describing the purchase of the officially supplied "Global Key" at G2A, but found that it was actually the activation code for the Russian region. G2A responded quickly within 15 minutes after responding, saying that G2A's criteria for determining the attribution of products to the product is whether it can be activated and operated. Global only means that it can be activated and operated globally, and the source of the goods that the player cares about is taken over.

Events such as these have been constantly emerging, and players and vendors have always been suspicious and vigilant about G2A. However, because of the temptation of low prices, even in the gray area, many people have gone on and on, G2A is growing day by day, and the scope of controversy is still

expanding. "League of Legends" developer Roit issued a ban on all teams in October 2015, banned from G2A sponsorship, because G2A promoted the "League of Legends" service. Roit said that after several weeks of consultations, the two sides still failed to reach an agreement, and after careful consideration, they had no choice but to issue this ban.

Confessions of "bad guys" Back at the GDC venue, before the microphone signal was cut off, G2A overseas marketing expert Marius Mirek talked and said that he directly participated in the $450,000 damage claimed by Alex Nichiporchik. He said that tinyBuild did not provide any suspected key and let G2A verify that there was fraud.

Alex Nichiporchik immediately asked in his seat, "Do you really want to say this on GDC?" To prevent the venue from becoming a mutual attack, the round table host, Digital River game and entertainment director Scott Davis, turned off the microphone. Scott Davis is the host of this roundtable, and the round table is discussing the topic "Fraud and Your Game Economy." When Alex Nichiporchik spoke, he came up with the idea that a 15-year-old hacker has stolen a lot of credit cards, and he can use the platforms like Kinguin and G2A to sell in the bedroom.

The round table holds the picture. Image source: Polygon Other members of the round table, including Matthew Cook, co-founder of Panopticon Labs, Lee Gould, director of global fraud management at Sony, and Scott Williams, senior fraud product manager at Digital River, agree. This caused dissatisfaction with Marius Mirek, who was a G2A employee, and therefore directly attacked Alex Nichiporchik at the venue, saying that he lacked cooperation in the controversy last year.

After the meeting, the media interviewed Marius Mirek and wanted to know more details and asked if he agreed with the round table. G2A is providing a hotbed for credit card fraud and money laundering.

Marius Mirek said that G2A can be seen as eBay, Amazon or any other online store. "Fraud is part of all other markets." G2A does not promote this behavior and is still monitoring these illegal behaviors. Marius Mirek finally impatiently said that the media should not have to interview him, but should ask those game developers who are willing to attack and cooperate with G2A to crack down on credit card fraud.

"The only way you can find it is to talk to a developer and compare the damage figures they provide with our data. I can guarantee that you won't find anything."

In any case, the bad reputation of G2A is a fact, but it is also true that sitting day by day. Not all virtual items purchased from G2A have problems, but G2A has not been able to guarantee that buyers will not be affected by credit card fraud. For players, shopping at G2A is a trick; for game makers, G2A is a bloody scorpion, too low prices also drive down the game's sales, these sold games Whether money can really be obtained is still a problem. After all, no one wants to lose the next $450,000.