Presumably they don't realise it is linked to someone's Steam account and is unsaleable as a result?
Possible to sell Modern Warfare 2?
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Presumably they don't realise it is linked to someone's Steam account and is unsaleable as a result?
Well I've read online that they won't take opened copies of Steam games. I bought a PS3 at lunchtime for £199 from the recent supermarket deal so now just need MW2 to leave PC gaming and it's silly rules behind.... Until tomorrow when I find I can't hit a thing with a bloody joypad!!
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I bought HL2 second-hand - I had to take a photo of the cd-key and email it to their support site. There was a similar thread on here recently, and I'm pretty sure the OP there had something similar - he was given a number which he had to write over the cd-key, then it would be reset.
I can see your argument but cheap second hand games are also a way into the PC market for people with less money. These customers may later convert to new game purchasers. The money gained from your argument probably outweighs this though
it's worse than piracy.
With piracy you can;t tell if the person would have bought it at all or simply got it because it was free.
With second hand sales it really is a lost sale as the person parted with cash for it.
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Bear in mind that a lot of buyers are willingly paying full price on release day as they know that they can sell it on to get some cash back. If publishers effectively kill the second hand market then I'd have thought there'd be a number of buyers who simply wouldn't pay full price on release day and wait for it to inevitably drop in price 6 months later.
Even if they do that, it's still more direct sales to the publisher/developer and they are probably the last group to take a cut from the price dropping.
Either way though, it's quite clear the industry doesn't like second hand selling and would much rather it stopped happening.
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Agreed. Although it is odd how the world thrives on second hand selling ... look at the turnover through eBay etc in the last few years, yet other markets don't enforce a no resell policy. Of course it's harder / impossible to implement on a physical item, but still ... I can't think of any other market to try this. I can see this way forward as only being detrimental to the industry in the long run.
Just to clarify, I've never sold a game on, but have picked up some used ones at various game stores that I would never have paid for new, even at massively discounted prices after a year or so.
Even with all the screwing competitive PC gaming Activison have done I still would've bought the game if I knew I could sell it later on.
Empire did the same thing, registered itself to Steam, I played MEII to death but couldn't get into this one - so now I'm stuck with a £35 game on Steam I'm never going to play.
Empire did the same thing, registered itself to Steam, I played MEII to death but couldn't get into this one - so now I'm stuck with a £35 game on Steam I'm never going to play.
This holds true in my office. I am currently the only one willing to stump up £35 to get it on release day. Everyone else is waiting for the price to drop, which means i have no one to play with