European court: You are allowed to resell your steam games
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This is only going to hurt the developers hard. People will be passing games to and fro all the time and there will be much less money actually going to the developers.
Sure, its nice to get a cheap game 2nd hand, but think of the bigger picture
Every other industry in the world ever seems has had to deal with a second hand market, I'm sure gaming will do just fine. You don't see the CEO of Ford constantly bitching to the press about second hand sales do you? (do you?)
They do have to but not in anywhere near the same way.
For starters you won't find a ford dealership selling second hand fords right next to the new ones.
Next you've got the fact a second hand game is functionally identical to a new game, unlike a car a game does not degrade with age beyond being damaged by the owners in which case they won't be sold anyway.
Also when was the last time you bought a second hand DVD or CD from one of the major retailers or supermarkets or even saw them for sale?
Did I not just say I was fine with physical copies?
Just for reference I am generally against the current state of second hand game sales, however I consider it a problem as a result of the high prices of games. Unfortunately the reason for the high price is actually justified due to the much smaller demographic of games compared to the only realistic comparison to the games industry which is film, however film has multiple avenues for profit such as cinema, rentals, tv all on top of DVD/BR sales. Games only have one realistic avenue which is direct sales, with rental only now getting bigger with things like netflix/lovefilm etc.
Unfortunately it is not as simple as "Other industries have a second hand market therefore it's fine" because it isn't, the second hand game market is almost unique in the way it functions.
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£45-50 for an AAA game you cannot resell if not justifiable. Period.
Why not? I would love to hear your reasoning.
We pay ~£10 to see a film at the cinema that we can only see once, we pay around that for a DVD which we can watch as many times as we like, that film will last ~2 hours, why is it unreasonable for something that costs a similar amount to produce yet will last anywhere up to 100 hours and beyond in some cases to sell for more? How many AAA games do you know that last less than say 6-10 hours? That's not even including multiplayer.
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This could be bad news for indie devs.
Doubtful, their already low prices and largely digital distribution means it won't really effect them directly.
I was responding to the indie dev comment from UncleRuckus.
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My point is that Indie games do not sell as many as the latest blockbuster, therefore trading of their games could be rather damaging as a result because they are not making as much on their product.
I was thinking the same
whats the difference between downloadable games
and music, ebooks etc ?
He should have done his research better before purchasing the game then
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I wonder if this will push devs in to selling subscriptions to get around it?
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his reasoning is simple. you can resell the DVD yet you cant resell the game in 99% of cases.
also, have you played some of the FPS AAA titles recently? granted i dont play many FPSs but i dont own a single one where the single player aspect lasted me more than 10 hours. the only games i have that lasted me more than 10 hours are driving games and a few 3rd person shooters (GTAIV at ~20 hours and the just cause series)