| noname2200 said: "[PC has a used market in the form of] Ebay, craigslist."
PC's used market is miniscule and frail in comparison to what the consoles have, and the move to Steam and similar services only serves to further cripple it. It's certainly smaller due to a lack of Gamestop, but I've personally never had a problem finding whichever used PC game I wanted after a bit of poking around. That's really all I want from the second-hand market, and I suspect most feel the same. |
That's what I was thinking. You should easily be able to find anything you want on EBay or Amazon. The publishers tried their best to kill it off with the limited activations crap (no doubt in preparation for something similar on the consoles), but most have shied away from that and there are tools to reclaim your activations on most. In any case, the future's digital and Steam, GOG and Impulse provide enough extra to compensate for the drawback of not being able to sell your games on at the moment. For the future, I'd be surprised if they didn't introduce a mechanism whereby you could sell on your old games, with percentages of the sale going to the developers.
