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The Fury on 17 September 2015
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Danman27 said:
This is the question we're asking essential on if used games are bad. When you buy a game, what are you actually buying? Are you literally buying a copy of the game for you to use as you please? OR are you buying a license to use the game indefinitely, but in reality, the devs and publishers actually still own your copy?

Completely different situations on both.

A digital copy of a game you are buying a licence to play the game and then you download it to play it. You at this time cannot sell that licence because the licence is tied to you.

When you buy a dsic game you are buying a disc containing a licenced copy of the game and the digital version of the game just stored on a disc. You can sell the game/licence because it's tied to the disc, not you.

You don't ever really own a game/any piece of software, unless you actually wrote it. That's part of how software licencing works.



Hmm, pie.