The first real blow to DRM no re-sale policy

[Pulsar_t]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012- ... ion-market



Pretty good news and the EU still values at least partially consumer rights. Those greedy publishers had better comply if they wish to operate in European mainland.

[SpaceBooger]

While I think this is great, the part about Steam not offering big discounts because the could be resold after the sale is over (for more than sale price but lower than retail) scares me.
Most, well all, of the games I have on steam were dirt cheap... That's why I bought them. If this happens I'll probably not save as much money even if I buy used.

[fastbilly1]

Ill be interested to see what Valve does here. Same with Gog.

[CRTGAMER]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012- ... ion-market

The two biggest digital games platforms, Steam and Origin, currently do not facilitate this, and there is no directive in the ruling forcing Valve and EA to do so. But Sulyok believes all it will take is for one consumer to enforce his right to the resale of a game - and thus be required to make his copy unusable - for the two heavyweight companies to be triggered into action.

Well, this is a pointless ruling. Where's the enforcement!?

[jfrost]

At the very least, Valve won't be able to penalize consumers who sell their Steam accounts anymore. In Europe, of course.

[MrPopo]

Ill be interested to see what Valve does here. Same with Gog.

This seems like something Valve could implement by expanding their trading system to allow trading of all games on your account, rather than just the gift codes.

[Pulsar_t]

I'm more interested in whether this applies to digital console marketplaces as well..

[Pulsar_t]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... nt-resells

This thing is still being repealed in courts.

[Erik_Twice]

German courts, not the EU courts. We would need to get Steam's case to a superior court and see what happens. But getting the attention of the EU courts seem difficult :/

[Pulsar_t]

One of the comments mentioned that publishers might resort to selling their games as services. EA is already doing that, you can't play Battlefield without their web interface and you can't have dedicated servers, so there's that.