• stevedice
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    9 days ago

    GOG’s EULA allows you to legally transfer any games as long as you destroy all not transferred copies.

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      9 days ago

      How does that work with the licence grant in their systems? Is the burden of proof on you, or do they have a mechanism to transfer that?

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        9 days ago

        It works on the honor system, which is just a fancy way of saying it doesn’t. Mainly because nobody wants it. Turns out reselling, as a concept, doesn’t really make sense when games go on sale all the time.

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          9 days ago

          It certainly does, or at least trading does. There have been times when I want a friend to try a game, but they’re not willing to buy it. If I could swap a game with them (or just gift one), then they could.

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            9 days ago

            Why would I swap a game for my friend to try it out when the next sale will probably happen in a couple of weeks? Literally yesterday I bought The Master Chief collection for a fiend for 10 USD. The second-hand market only really applies to anti-consumer companies like Nintendo where several years old games still retail for launch price.