Key reseller G2A has issued a press release today, addressing allegations made by developer TinyBuild yesterday.
Essentially TinyBuild alleged that it had lost $450,000 USD in revenue as a result of fradulent keys sold by G2A.
The key reseller tells a different side of the story.
“The original source of this case goes back to March 22nd of 2016. The official tinyBuild Twitter account posted a tweet containing unreliable information regarding the piracy rates of their latest title Punch Club. Naturally our representatives reached out, to educate and offer assistance to the developers,” G2A said in a press release. “What followed were email conversations. Many unjustified demands were made by tinyBuild regarding the removal of G2A marketplace merchant stock from the marketplace and compensation for their estimated value of products. All questions asked of G2A were answered, all data requested by tinyBuild was given freely by G2A, including the number of sales and their median value for the life time of the product page (original release dates of the products right up until the 8th of June 2016).”
The site is adamant is cooperated with the developer in this case.
“In reference to the 450 thousand dollars potential lost for tinyBuild,” it continues, turning things back upon the developer. “Why did tinyBuild refer only to the highest price point in their product history? While on the real market you can buy their products in a bundle on an 85% off discount [which is then sourced]. Finding a better medium price here would give a true overview. TinyBuild should explain to the media why they omitted their sales data from the revenue projection.”
G2A then takes it upon itself to direct gaming media for subsequent answers.
“The questions the gaming industry should be asking is, why did tinyBuild never come back to us with a list of codes that should be taken down from the G2A’s Marketplace? In conclusion, G2A stands to provide support to developers by providing them prompt communication channels, advance tools (exchanging blacklist, identifying suspicious merchants and auctions and ‘KYC’-Know Your Customers procedures) and security award winning payment solution with G2A Pay. TinyBuild should connect back with us and provide us with the list of suspicious keys for further investigation.”
G2A continued on to say that TinyBuild has three days to provide said list of suspicious keys.
We’re heading back to TinyBuild for further comment.
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