G2A vs Humble Bundle
When comparing G2A vs Humble Bundle, the Slant community recommends Humble Bundle for most people. In the question“What are the best online stores to purchase PC games cheaply?” Humble Bundle is ranked 3rd while G2A is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Humble Bundle is:
Users are not only giving to a charity and choosing the portion of the price they pay to a charity but they can also select from a list of charities to donate to. Thus giving some control to the consumer as to what kind of organizations they support.
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Pros
Pro Typically significantly less expensive than competing services
As G2A is a user marketplace, keys may be purchased during sales and resold for significantly less than current market value. Because of this, keys tend to be very inexpensive in comparison to Steam, Origin, and Uplay.
Pro Makes steam games affordable
Pro Support choice of charity
Users are not only giving to a charity and choosing the portion of the price they pay to a charity but they can also select from a list of charities to donate to. Thus giving some control to the consumer as to what kind of organizations they support.
Pro Pay what you want
The way Humble Bundle works is that it is donation based in that you can pay what you want for the bundle, with the minimum being a dollar. There are separate packages in each bundle that also ask for a minimum price, which depends on the "beat the average" price which is what on average has been donated so far..
Pro Supporting the Devs
Just as a user can choose how much to give to a charity out of the price given, they can also choose how much to give to the devs. So if one does not feel like supporting a charity for a certain bundle they can choose to give all of the funds to the developers.
Cons
Con Risk of stolen keys
As G2A is a user-driven market place, not all keys sold may be legitimate. Anyone from anywhere can list a key for sale à la eBay and Amazon. However, like eBay and Amazon, G2A provides the seller's feedback rating and number of sales prior to purchase.
Con Opt-out service on checkout that is easy to miss, which charges and subscribes the purchaser to something they may not need or want
Many people have reported issue with the "Shield" subscription service, that seems to auto subscribe users when purchasing keys. It has also been reported that is is pretty difficult to get this subscription turned off, which can be frustrating for those that never wanted it in the first place.
Con Limited to what games they are willing to carry
The bundles have the support of the devs to be published, which means there may be certain devs that do not want to have their games in a bundle, which limits how many games are available on their store and in their bundles.