Valefor.Prothescar said:
»20% off + a 20% off code (20OFF) for a total of $18 on GMG c:
Better to support Humble Bundle (which in turns supports the Devs + Charity) or even Steam itself, rather than buying from GMG...no matter how much of a discount they give. GMG has shown to be very shady in some situations. I remember when the Witcher 3 was released, they approached Projekt CD Red about letting them distribute keys for The Witcher 3, and Projekt CDR straight up said no. That would mean no Witcher 3 keys would be available on GMG, right?
Wrong. GMG went through back-alley, grey market channels to secure keys to sell on their website, even after Projekt CDR specifically told them that they do not want their game sold on the GMG website.
What people seem to conveniently forget about the Witcher 3 key sale fiasco is that
nearly every single online retailer that wasn't Steam or GOG.com (CDProjekt's own retail interface) were given the same answer. At the end of the day, none of these retailers were ever found to have sold stolen or illegitimate keys, and the only time I can think of that GMG has had keys revoked or removed by any publisher has been for Elder Scrolls Online, which was Zenimax being absolutely *** ridiculous and saying that GMG was not an authorized retailer of ESO despite having it written in the OP of that very same thread that they were, in fact, an authorized retailer.
I'm more than happy to save money on games whenever possible, especially when the outlet hasn't had any evidence of distributing stolen, illegitimate, or otherwise fraudulent game keys. If a game is something I'm passionate about and the publisher isn't an enormous piece of ***, I'll support them directly through their own first party store or through Steam/Amazon (Steam actually being a pretty bad way to support a Publisher/Dev since they take a pretty big cut of the sales price), like for The Witcher 3, which I bought through GOG despite it being cheaper on GMG: not because I didn't want to save money or thought that GMG was selling bad keys, but because I wanted to support the game since CDPR is one of the better devs/publishers left out there. They're not infallible though, and I won't treat them as such. If someone wants to buy their games on the cheap elsewhere, that's their right.
tl;dr I haven't ever personally had an issue with GMG after dozens of game purchases, and I can think of no big dramas related to bad or illegitimate keys being distributed by them in the entire time I've been using the site.