| greenmedic88 said: The crux of his argument is that buying games through Steam is "renting" games for the price of a purchase. The other is that one can't sell games from one's Steam account, which is apparently something common for people to do within the PC gaming community that I wasn't aware of. I did buy a used GoTY copy of Dreamfall once. Only because it pre-dated online registration/DRM. If you can "gift" a registration code when you have multiple codes through Steam (done to encourage bundle purchases), technically you could sell them as well. As for the whole renting argument, technically ANY software that requires any sort of online sign in or registration/verification process would be the same thing from the standpoint that the publisher could upload a patch that disables the game or the ability to save. Permanent rentals I have no problem with. |
I get that... but it's not really true anyway.
Your buying a liscenese, just like the CD. The main difference is... I'm giving up the ability to sell the liscense... which I wouldn't do anyway... and also, is against the terms of most EULAs... so it's probably illegal to do so. So you know... i'm giving up the ability to do something illegal for benefit.
It's one of the reasons you don't find Used PC games in gamestop anymore.
It'd be like if I got a foodstamp card that gives me more food, but it's DNA protected so I can't sell the card to someone else.
Also in turn I can download the game so long as steam is in buisness instead of the CD wearing down, or one of my jackass friends ruining it on accident.
As for selling gift codes... I bet someone made some serious cash off that when TF2 was like 67 cents. Buy 10 of them, then sell them for 5-6 dollars a piece after the sale was over... gift to those people... and bam... easy 40 dollars.
CD checks can be cracked, and are. PC selling is probably mostly already illegal, it's just they don't bother to track down ebay sellers... yet.
The point is, people like him are faciliating such "soft" crackdowns, which could become "hard" at any time.
