most keys come from regions where games are cheaper or are bought during sales. The "stolen credit card" theory doesn't really work when you see sellers with over a million keys sold. You can do something like this once or twice but you just can't use stolen credit cards 10 000 times without getting caught, the volume is simply too big.

If you get a steam key, the game was bought on steam at some point, meaning the devs will get money.

They'll get less if you buy it for 5€ on g2a or kinguin than if you were to buy it for 5€ on steam of course, but buying it $1 on sale or $2 on G2A makes no difference for them, since the 2$ key was originally bought for $1.

If really want to support a game, you can buy it full price but sometimes there are games that you aren't willing to pay $40 for, but you're okay with something like $25, which means the devs will get the same thing as if you had bought it yourself for $20 on steam.

steam keys don't appear out of thin air on g2a or instantgaming, they were bought somewhere at some point (for thess than the retail price of course)

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exactly.exploiting the discounts for lower income regions is just an awful thing to do

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