Steam users free to resell their digital games, court rules
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Those who purchase digital games are free to resell them, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled.

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.

  • Selmafudd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    Do you think steam and devs are going to allow the transfer of a game on their platform without their cut?

    • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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).

      • ryathalEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

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

        • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

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