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Yeah the devs are still making their money. Just not the big first world money they want.
The indie dev behind Factorio spoke out about the grey market resellers in their blog. They talked about G2A, where they had received a bunch of fraudulent purchases, and had to pay fines to the credit card processor for each chargeback... Effectively making reseller sales cost the developer money instead of earning it. Here's the 4 blog posts talking about the issue.
https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-171
https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-303
https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-304
https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-348