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Kasz216 on 12 November 2010
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ssj12 said:
Antabus said:
Foamer said:

I'm not calling DRM consumer-friendly though, read it again.

Yes you are. If some DD service is customer friendly, it should allow customer to sell their products if they want.

Just to say, I own 100 games on steam and if I could sell them, the number would be something like 20.


You do realize you can't sell PC games at all right? Heck, you can't return a game to a store if you purchased it because retailers cannot resell the game due to the CD key unless the game is defective and you are just replacing the title with a brand new copy (you will not get your money back). This is why there is no used PC game market for places like GameStop or PlayNTrade. It isn't just Steam, its the entire PC retail market that disabled the entire resale market. Since there is no resale market for PC games, they should not allow reselling of games. And if you think about it, the PSN, XBLA, and Wii's systems are exactly the same as Steam.

Also I will straight up defend Steam's DRM because its the one type of DRM that is truly user friendly. All your titles are linked to a single account, can be installed as many times as you want on as many PCs as you want, you have a friends list that allows you to join your friends in game, you have achievements through software that is 100% freeware to developers, an automated update system, gifting to send titles to friends, community features, a well integrated store, detailed news on updates and other announcements, etc. Truthfully this is by far the best and most friendly pieces of software you can have. The DRM protects software from piracy, thats about it, just like iTunes but comes with tons of features that make it a very worthwhile piece of software to be in your gaming library.

Trust me, I am far from the person here to side with the use of DRM, but Steam is far from DRM like SecuROM.


Yep, though some places do sell used games... they mostly only do so because they know nobody is going to come after them.

If  it wasn't for Gamestop and other used sellers overwhelming sales share on consoles I bet console games would be the same way.