Why is it sad?
You've only purchased a license to play the game, not to sell it when you're done.
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That's the way it works now though. :(
I've recently seen that some companies are trying to make it so you can't resell your physical copies of games you bought as well.
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That makes absolutely no sense... You pirate games because you're not allowed to resell digital copies?? >_>
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If you could resell games, then Steam would have the same resale issues of the console market.
If a publisher expects a game to be played five times in its lifetime, they have to charge five times as much.
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I bet it would only take changing of one variable or the click of one button to make it possible, since it already works perfectly fine with gifts and guest passes, as well as in-game items.
The thing is, reselling games does not make any profit for the publishers, so they would never ever allow it.
Also, since reselling wouldn't make profit for Valve either, they wouldn't like to have it either, even if the publishers would allow it.
Reselling is the only profit why every publisher has their own DRM system in place (Origin, UPlay, GFWL,...).
This completely inhibits any resales and basically makes retail copies a piece of plastic in a box.
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maybe that's all people want on steam? to sell the game back to them
The used game market is bad for gaming (almost as bad as piracy), but selling your game back to the manufacturer for store credit bad (it'll hurt valve a little in this case, but they'd probably gain respect from customers)
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i wouldnt mind if it got introduced, although alot of people value having alot of games in their library for some reason. selling back games that came from some key wouldnt work, but only those you got directly from them. but seeing how strong they are doing in sales, its not likely to get implemented.
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Well, technically speaking, you can resell the license you bought, as you do own that. So, for all purposes, yes you would.
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Easy.
Sell the games on the Steam Marketplace. Steam gets a cut and can also give a cut to the publisher/developer. Doesn't have to be the same amount as for in-game items.
Trade the game back to Steam for a lower amount of in-store credit. You'll use that money to purchase new games on the Steam Store which means both publishers (perhaps not the same publisher as you might buy a game from another, but that goes the same for everyone else - someone else will buy a game from "your" publisher) and Steam makes money.
Besides, it's legal to re-sell licenses in Europe, although that doesn't mean it's possible (it's currently not on Steam). It's possible that it'll be implemented into Steam eventually.
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Let's hope the European Union enforces that law, and publishers actually abide to it for a fear of alienating a huge market.
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The best solution I can think of to this, if you can even call it a problem, is to offer maybe 25% of the price of the game back to you, so you can spend it on another game. Unless it came from a bundle or something. In which case, fuck you, you're keeping it.
I don't care either way though. I rarely pay full price for a game. Even Skyrim at launch only cost me £23, thanks to Asda.
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Is it possible in anyway to gift/trade games that are in my steam library?
I have many unwanted games.
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