European Union court: Consumers have the right to re-sell their Digitally Distributed games

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I can, I call BS on this ruling, first all it says that if the publishers 'sell' they have to allow resale. So if they just hit the find/replace key and switch all occurances of 'sale' to 'rent' in all of their ELUA's, it will render this ruling meaningless, sure there will be some very vocal outcry at first, but the vast majority will keep hitting the agree button(me included) - nothing changed.


Second, I say this BS, because this can be sustainable, its just to ease to exploit. I'll buy one game and after I am done, I'll just keep sharing(sale/resale) the steam key with ALL my friends, I can already see facebook group of thousand that do the same, because why pay when you can get it for free and the most ironic part, we can use steam own social system to share those keys.

In fact I can start a company that helps sharing keys, lets call it digital gamefly, unlike steam I dont have to pay for almost anything not server hosting, not bandwidth for distribution, only help you guys sell/resale games. Even for 1$ a year, I can offer you any amount* of games you want and still make millions, which will lead to steam and every major developer going bankrupt.(and please dont give me the honnor system BS).

So what will happen, that companies will get creative with "online passes", for starters steam can start charging you for distribution(per PC pass?) or the more likely recourse that they'll, chalange this rlling in court for years and rush toward cloud gaming, going the games as service instead of product way, like MMO's, which is where the whole industry is rushing i.e. we are fucked.


I dont know, sometimes people dont think before they do, the idea of resaleing games is great on the paper, but ever since we tried to get "socialism" to gaming, we just got mounting walls of DRM, various passes and less control over our products.