Information EU rules publishers cannot stop you reselling your downloaded games

[sea]

valve actually allowed transfer of your already used games to different accounts at some point. gamersgate even advertised with the ability of being able to resell/transfer your gg games back when it still belonged to paradox. not sure if steam or gg still roll that way

That's odd, I specifically asked Steam Support (I had an old account I wanted some games transferred from) and they said they couldn't do it.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

ACTA has been voted down by an overwhelming majority

 

[thesheeep]

Long live the European Republic!

 

[Arikel]

Eh i dunno if it would be that hard to implement, just allow you to package up games on your steam account and send them as a a "gift" to another steam user. Hell Valve could also offer a steam wallet service, so instead of fucking around with how to get the other guy to pay you the funds would go from his steam wallet to yours directly, and probably could figure out a way to profit from that (3% of the sale or what not goes to valve) for providing the auction house you can sell your game in. GOG could do this as well, but with their method of downloading might have difficulties keeping the game from the hands of the original owner, though their user base might be less inclined to do so (their general nature is anti-drm, but also anti-pirate). I haven't used any other download services, but surely most of them could also implement game trading services in this way also, and by providing the money transfer service onsite, would even be able to make some money back.

 

[joeydohn]

Eh i dunno if it would be that hard to implement, just allow you to package up games on your steam account and send them as a a "gift" to another steam user. Hell Valve could also offer a steam wallet service, so instead of fucking around with how to get the other guy to pay you the funds would go from his steam wallet to yours directly, and probably could figure out a way to profit from that (3% of the sale or what not goes to valve) for providing the auction house you can sell your game in. GOG could do this as well, but with their method of downloading might have difficulties keeping the game from the hands of the original owner, though their user base might be less inclined to do so (their general nature is anti-drm, but also anti-pirate). I haven't used any other download services, but surely most of them could also implement game trading services in this way also, and by providing the money transfer service onsite, would even be able to make some money back.

Steam could take a 15% cut on any sales and whenever you take money out of their system too, what a brilliant idea.

 

[skuphundaku]

Eh i dunno if it would be that hard to implement, just allow you to package up games on your steam account and send them as a a "gift" to another steam user. Hell Valve could also offer a steam wallet service, so instead of fucking around with how to get the other guy to pay you the funds would go from his steam wallet to yours directly, and probably could figure out a way to profit from that (3% of the sale or what not goes to valve) for providing the auction house you can sell your game in.

Yes, that's the way to go.

GOG could do this as well, but with their method of downloading might have difficulties keeping the game from the hands of the original owner, though their user base might be less inclined to do so (their general nature is anti-drm, but also anti-pirate).

GOG could do it just like Steam: implement a way of transfering ownernship of games between accounts. As for keeping the original owner from keeping it, it's beside the point because the original owner could give it to anyone else anyway because of the DRM-free nature of GOG games. That whole issue is trusted upon the users now and should be just as well trusted upon the users after the change (otherwise, they would need to add DRM, which would mean them shooting themselves in the foot by losing their competitive advantage, namely GOG's games DRM-free nature).

 

[Bulba]

What's the point of drm on old games anyway? it's not like if they let you download it drm-free and you give it to someone else it will increase piracy. Whomever wants to acquire a game illigaly can do so way to easely.

Afterall only the paying consumers suffer from the drm pain.

And I don't belive there will be any major shifts to mmos, since they are a completely different market. Everyone that could do it have done so already.