Antabus said:
Vast majority =/= USA. It is not illegal in most of the european countries, including such minority countries as Germany, France, Spain, Italy, UK and Russia. In some asian minority countries such Japan and China it is also legal to sell used games. I guess we have a different definition for being wrong. In my book when someone claims that he knows the other persons local regulations better, or maybe even call him criminal and uninformed... is proved wrong simply by showing him how it is there. But I guess you aren't proven wrong because where you live, it might be illegal. We minorities should know better, we should not argue with the almighty american. Now you made me want to listen to Green Day.. thanks. |
Except... it is illegal... in the UK, Spain and France.
Read a lot of EULA's that state that by agreeing you agree to seek any claims for things like not being aloud to resale in your home country, and often in Germany, France, or the UK or whatever country the publisher is from.
Your location said the UK... where it is illegal. Afterwords I said it was likely you were mistaken... because again, it was likely... since in most of europe it is illegal.
That really is all there is to say. Your angry because people are not going out of their way for a very small percentage of the software buying public.
That's not really a reasonable reason to be angry.
If you've really got a problem with it, you should try and start a lawsuit saying that Steam infringes your right to resale, and see where it gets you.
If your lucky, they may deintegrate just for your area and the few like it. (though probably replace it with CD drive destroying starforce.)
If your unlucky, you may win... and they'll just stop providing games.
It's got nothing to do with "not being from America".
It's about "Not being from a big enough consumer base."
If my local state said "All videogames must not have DRMs" I wouldn't really bitch and complain about steam... because it's just my state. Can't expect a big company to go out of their way for such a small percentage of the consumer base. (Ohio for example is like twice the size of Finland, and actually consumer base size for games is even larger.)
It's clear your just unreasonably mad, unwilling to look at it rationally and going out of your way to flame other peoples nationalties... so really.
I'm done. Maybe when you calm down you'll understand my point, but this is my last post.
