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G2A Will Now charge Your Account for Being Inactive

Published Sat, 22 Dec 2018 13:10:32 -0600

Last updated Sat, 22 Dec 2018 13:21:21 -0600

G2A has apparently hit a new low in their business strategy to try and keep people active on their site by charging an inactivity fee. The news was sent out to certain users over the past couple weeks, but really gained traction on Reddit when word got out with European players that they'd be charged one Euro every month that there's no funds in your account and you're not purchasing games through their system.

G2A Will Now charge Your Account for Being Inactive — credit//G2A

"If User does not log in through the Website to User's account [sic] for over 180 (one hundred eighty) days, the Company is entitled to charge the User's G2A Wallet inactivity fee in amount of EUR 1 (one) per each month, or less, if there is no sufficient funds on the User's G2A Wallet to charge entire inactivity fee. The Company is also entitled to terminate User's G2A Wallet, if there is no sufficient funds on it which allows to charge the inactivity fee. Charged inactivity fee is not returnable. The User is to be informed about terminating his account."

Basically, if you don't use their system for six months and have not shut down your account, they'll charge you for keeping an account on their system. Kind of a crooked way to do business, as the company tried to simultaneously say in the same notice that it costs them money to keep your account, while also telling you PAY doesn't charge you if you don't have funds in the wallet. But it's not the first time G2A has been accused of shady business practices, like how Polygon investigated allegations of selling illegal keys through stolen credit cards. We'll see if public pressure gets them to back off, but realistically, its more likely that people will resign their accounts and move on.

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