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EU court rules people can resell digital games (www.gamingbible.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by rikudou@lemmings.world to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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Finally some good news! I've been waiting for quite a while for such a ruling.

Edit: Seems this cites an article from 2012, I didn't notice that (and it's still news to me). Though there's still hope that it'll happen, EU is slow, but usually eventually gets shit done.

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[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Exactly. When I sell trading cards, Steam takes their cut. I see no reason to expect that Steam and similar platforms couldn't do the same for games, and share the revenue with the publishers.

The way I expect it to work is that you'd sell the game at a fixed price and the resold license would have some limitations (e.g. no trading cards), and the publisher would make almost at much from that sale as a new sale (e.g. maybe Steam takes a smaller cut, and your discount is the difference).

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Steam would likely still get paid, but there's no reason they would have to give the publisher anything.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

They would if they want to keep the publisher happy. Otherwise the publisher would just see it as losing sales.

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