Steam users free to resell their digital games, court rules
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Those who purchase digital games are free to resell them, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled.

Finally some good news! I’ve been waiting for quite a while for such a ruling.

Edit: Seems this cites an article from 2012, I didn’t notice that (and it’s still news to me). Though there’s still hope that it’ll happen, EU is slow, but usually eventually gets shit done.

  • Gabagoolzoo
    -6•11 months ago

    Being able to resell digital games would completely fuck single player games. I imagine a handful of licenses would get sold at launch and then redistributed between people endlessly, until sales just bottom out completely when you can get a second-hand key for pennies. There would probably be a big shift towards games with lots of replay value like multiplayer or roguelikes.

    • ADHDefy
      19•11 months ago

      Tbf, that’s not what happened with physical games. Idk why it would be any different for digital keys.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•11 months ago

        A second hand physical game was yucky, a digital game is crispy clean. I dunno, just postulating

          • 520
            5•11 months ago

            They’re saying physical games have wear and tear and are subject to people not knowing how to care for stuff. You don’t have any of that for digital purchases.

      • Gabagoolzoo
        -2•11 months ago

        One is a physical collectable and the other is not. It’s like comparing an NFT to a Funko pop, there is a reason the latter never took off. If you think digital goods have value as collectables, then surely you also think NFTs have value as collectables? (The current NFT market would state otherwise…)