Good for the Factorio devs but now I really have to wonder what possible terms that E+Y, KPMG, PWC, or Deloitte couldn't agree to with G2A. Those people will work with anyone that is good for the...
Good for the Factorio devs but now I really have to wonder what possible terms that E+Y, KPMG, PWC, or Deloitte couldn't agree to with G2A. Those people will work with anyone that is good for the money, on all sorts of ventures.
I don't imagine any of the big firms would be cheap, even for a very small scale audit, and since G2A was likely only looking to investigate the 321 keys that the Factorio devs suspected were...
I don't imagine any of the big firms would be cheap, even for a very small scale audit, and since G2A was likely only looking to investigate the 321 keys that the Factorio devs suspected were illegitimate, I doubt they wanted to pay the big firm prices for that.
Of course that is only my guess if I give G2A the full benefit of the doubt on this one... but the skeptical/cynical side of me wonders if they intentionally failed to reach any agreements with independent auditors so that they could then conveniently be "forced" to "investigate" themselves, and thus only have to cop to a fraction of the actual cases of fraud that had occurred on their platform.
But given the lack of an independent investigation it's a somewhat unsatisfactoryheh ending in any case though, since now there will be no way to know for sure if G2A is really telling to truth or not... unless you're willing to take them at their word on everything.
Even if they weren't intending to fail, it's possible that G2A simply weren't willing to accept the level of transparency or disclosure required for an audit required by one of those companies....
Even if they weren't intending to fail, it's possible that G2A simply weren't willing to accept the level of transparency or disclosure required for an audit required by one of those companies. Even beyond the selling stolen or fraudulent keys, they're really, really scummy. I have no doubt that they've got skeletons they would rather keep hidden.
Good for the Factorio devs but now I really have to wonder what possible terms that E+Y, KPMG, PWC, or Deloitte couldn't agree to with G2A. Those people will work with anyone that is good for the money, on all sorts of ventures.
I don't imagine any of the big firms would be cheap, even for a very small scale audit, and since G2A was likely only looking to investigate the 321 keys that the Factorio devs suspected were illegitimate, I doubt they wanted to pay the big firm prices for that.
Of course that is only my guess if I give G2A the full benefit of the doubt on this one... but the skeptical/cynical side of me wonders if they intentionally failed to reach any agreements with independent auditors so that they could then conveniently be "forced" to "investigate" themselves, and thus only have to cop to a fraction of the actual cases of fraud that had occurred on their platform.
But given the lack of an independent investigation it's a somewhat unsatisfactoryheh ending in any case though, since now there will be no way to know for sure if G2A is really telling to truth or not... unless you're willing to take them at their word on everything.
Even if they weren't intending to fail, it's possible that G2A simply weren't willing to accept the level of transparency or disclosure required for an audit required by one of those companies. Even beyond the selling stolen or fraudulent keys, they're really, really scummy. I have no doubt that they've got skeletons they would rather keep hidden.