'The way our business works is we work with a ton of partners, and tracking down individual key batches is an insane amount of work,' he said. Nichiporchik said he refuses to provide G2A with a list of keys that may or may not be stolen because of the likelihood of creating false positives. 'Previously it was 'we're not going to help you unless you sign up working with us'.' 'So _now_ they're willing to help with keys, but instead phrase in the same blackmail way - you have three days to send us keys to verify,' Nichiporchik said. In an email sent to Eurogamer, Alex Nichiporchik called G2A's statement 'aggressive' and accused the company of trying to 'discredit' tinyBuild. Now, tinyBuild has responded to G2A's response in a statement titled: 'Our response to G2A's statement: you have 3 days to fix this.' G2A guarantees a safe environment and good experience - if you fork out for G2A Shield. It's not clear why G2A has set a three-day deadline for tinyBuild - or what it'll do if tinyBuild fails to comply. G2A called on tinyBuild to provide a list of the keys considered 'stolen' and thus should be taken down from the G2A Marketplace, and called the $450,000 figure into question because, it said, tinyBuild referred only to the highest price point of its games in arriving at the figure. 'Moments later you'd see G2A being populated by cheap keys of games we had just sold on our shop.'Īfter tinyBuild's complaint hit the internet, G2A hit back with a bizarre ultimatum: provide us with a list of suspicious keys within three days. 'I'd start seeing thousands of transactions, and our payment provider would shut us down within days,' Nichiporchik said.

There's also the issue of chargebacks from credit card companies, which obliterated tinyBuild's own online shop. He accused G2A users of using a database of stolen credit cards to buy game keys in bulk from a bundle or third-party key reseller, then putting them up on G2A to sell them at half the retail price. Nichiporchik, however, described G2A's business model as 'fundamentally flawed' and said it 'facilitates a black market economy'. G2A is popular because it offers an easy way for people to sell off keys for games they don't want, and in the process customers get a cheap price. G2A, which acts as a retailer and an online marketplace for video game key selling, sort of like an eBay for PC games, is perhaps the most well-known website of its kind, and even sponsors streamers and game events. In an email sent to Eurogamer Alex Nichiporchik, boss of Punch Club and SpeedRunners publisher tinyBuild, accused G2A of selling $450,000 worth of its games. To recap: earlier this week tinyBuild claimed G2A, a popular PC key-reselling website, sold nearly half a million dollars' worth of its games - and didn't receive a penny in return. TinyBuild's Punch Club is cheap as chips on G2A.

The row between G2A and tinyBuild over PC game key reselling is getting ugly, with accusations of blackmail and ultimatums flying around.

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