Scoobes said:
I'll support it as long as the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. To me, having saved game backups, the ability to play anywhere without having to take my disks, not having to worry about finding disks when I get new hardware and the new cross platform ownership if I decide to buy a Mac, outweigh the disadvantage of second hand sale. That's not including all the extra community features. Essentially, it's DRM which whilst in one hand takes away one ability, but gives a lot of benefits to the customer with the other. In other words, it's the only DRM I've seen that's actually doing something right. On the second hand sale of DD products you have to remember that the laws were originally written for physical products that undergo degradation with use. With digital download the area is very grey. With a digital download there is not degradation, hence if you sell a DD product onto another party, they will essentially receive exactly the same product as one from brand new/full price. For physical media, the equivalent would be if you purchased a DVD, made a perfect replica, then sold it on. It bascially equates to a form of piracy. These are really some pretty insane issues for law makers to sort out, because on one hand you have the right to sell, but on the other, they have to protect the content holders/distributors. |
I don't get it. Would it be bad if you could sell the games you bought on steam or that you would not have to put up with steam or any other drm crap if you buy a retail game? I guess you like the EA online passes too. Oh wait, that is not a valve thing...
So let me get this straight...
If you would sell a game which you have bought from steam to another steam user... that would be like making a pirate copy of the game? Even though you would lose the game from your steam games.
I think I am starting to see the reason for your drm supporting.
