This just popped up on my youtube feed, and it got me thinking.

What is Sep7agon's opinion of people doing stuff like this? It has happened to many developers, quite a few of them actually making some games you may know. Like Rimworld and Speedrunners.

Also, how do you feel about grey markets like G2A who allow this type of scamming?

http://tinybuild.com/g2a-sold-450k-worth-of-our-game-keys

IMO, these types of things need to be dealt with. Many good devs don't deserve this, the argument that "I don't want to give corporate scum money" retort really doesn't work here. As most corporate companies can deal with scams like this while small devs can be destroyed, just because some guy can skirt the rules. Stuff like this makes me afraid to put time into making a complete game and try and sell it because I can get screwed.
I am well aware that a lot of you use Pirate Bay, but Pirating is 10x better than the scamming of game keys. Pirating at least doesn't directly smack the devs in the face and fuck them in the ass.

I stopped watching my favorite streamers stream because he shills for g2a

Same here, I was a regular on one stream. Was even thinking of subbing, then learned about G2A and how he was shilling it every minute.

Yeah, G2A is pretty terrible.  Because as shitty as the scammers are, the site actually profits off it.  They rake in money with each sale (10% sale, plus a shitton of fees), and then take no responsibility when it's fraudulent.  When they detect a fraud, they just empty that person's wallet into their pocket.  So they directly profit off people gouging developers, create an environment where that's easy to do, and do nothing to give back.