Digital distribution sucks!

[SamuelRSmith]

mrstickball said:

SamuelRSmith said:

 But why would someone buy a game first hand, when they could purchase it second hand and get it cheaper, with no losses in terms of quality.

What I'm asking is... why would any platform owner offer any service like this officially?

I think that game gifting, and guest passes (a la Steam) are the closesrt things we're going to get to your dream.

Shame.

The platform owner has an incentive. Set up a marketplace for the re-sale of digitally distributed copies, but force a surcharge on the service - 20-40% of whatever the seller profits on the item.

That way they are giving an incentive for keeping the copy (the fact that they won't get as much as they paid), they make money, and then the seller still gets the right to sell something he doesn't want.

Trust me, it'll happen. Within a year there will be a few services to offer it.

Well, in just three short paragraphs, I've been owned.