well France could fine them or ban them from doing business in their country
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It is not impossible that laws about reselling electronic licenses are forced by some governments. And it would be cool.
But it is very unlikely that platforms like Steam will create an easy marketplace to trade licenses. And they will find a way to make it difficult. You probably will have to confirm your account with an ID like passport. Then, when you want to resell a game, you will request a "Resell Key". It will be a special key, not a regular key. You will get the key, and you will get encrypted installer for the game. You can sell your key on eBay, or wherever you wish. With the key, you have to send the installer to the new buyer. If it's GTA V, the installer is 70GB. New user can activate the "Resell Key" license on Steam, but it will not be visible on public games list. It will be on your special list of Secondhand Licenses.
Of course license is just a license, and to include Steam services like game download, leaderboards, cloud saves, etc only once. You can buy your "Secondhand Bandwidth Package" for €0.05 per GB (quite normal price for cloud services). So to download/install GTA V with Secondhand License, you have to additionally pay €3.50. Red Dead Redemption 2? €7.00. If you want the game to normally appear in your public game list, and be able to see your Steam friends in leaderboards/multiplayer servers, you have to buy "Refreshed License Service Package" for €7.99.
This is all just pure speculation, but platforms like Steam provide a set of services (like downloading the game with reasonable bandwidth) that are included in initial license purchase. And there is no way that any law can force Steam to provide the same services again and again
for resold licenses.
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well no if nobody cares about enforcing that law, bandwidth is no problem since i can download the same game every day and thats ok so thats about that part, cloud saves and stuff like that should be deleted from first user and then one licence one cloud save spot. There is nothing but greed to not enable to resell licences but reselling would probably remove the licence from one account and put it on another and that means that even bundles wouldn't be problem since the can be all in one license and if you wish to resell one game, sorry no, resell complete bundle or nothing
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hackers would be cleaning out peoples steam accounts like they used to do to World of Warcraft accounts.
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Hackers is overused. People that got 'hacked' lost their account due own stupidity not actual hacker's skill.
And even then a x sell/trade/transfer per 24h or the like could put a big stop to that.
And third if you can't contact within 48h the support with that manner, your account don't seem worthile for you.
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Don't get me wrong, i'd sell at least 65% of my games in a heartbeat if we could. I was just saying our accounts would become currency somehow for someone after a short time of thinking. People always think of ways to be greedy, mean and lazy.
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Is Steam allowed us to resell games .... games would probably cost a lot more to buy in the first place. I suspect this would negatively impact revenues for developers and result in less development overall. all imho.
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More than shitty 15€/50€/100€???? Most games are overpriced already. Reselling would mean they will die out when they believe in expensive game selling.
And old games were developted despite being able to be sold, so that is a nonsense point in this age.
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... What would it take for it work?
Last year, a French court ruled that games bought on Steam are just like game discs you buy in stores and therefore, consumers should be allowed (and able) to resell their Steam games.
Almost a year has gone by. I don't know if Steam ever appealed (they said they would but I haven't read anything about the case being overturned) but nothing has changed.
As in my question at the top, how could it work without hurting the indie game scene? What if the publisher got a cut of the sale? What if games could only be resold after one year ? And if that was ever possible, what games would you sell?
And here's a little GA for you: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Dg5On/dark-future-blood-red-states
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