Its totally down to personal behaviour. I have dozens of games and only return to play a small percent of them. I mean you kind of have a pretty good idea of whether you want to hold onto a game or not. $6 can get you some cheap DLC and$12 can get you an indie title. Its not so bad considering your returning Microsoft absolutely nothing of value.

Ok, that actually seems like a viable reason.

There's lawsuts in various countries over digital games. Some gamers in those place want to be able to resell or trade in digital games and they're winning from I understand. MS is probably trying to experiment with allowing it but on their terms. I'm gonna look from more info on it and post some links later on today. 

Perhaps BC is turning out to be a lot more work, better pay you to delete the game and forget about it :p
Or the servers are getting too full, gotto make room in people's accounts :)

It's store credit, virtual currency, only there to encourage you to spend more. They could give a 10% discount on the next title if you already on the previous one. Yet putting some money in your virtual wallet gives you more incentive to use it.

Or perhaps it's a loophole to prevent having to make a system where you can sell your digital licenses to other people.


Anyway whatever it is, I wouldn't spend $60 on a digital only version in the first place.

I buy games I know im going to keep digital and the games I dont physical these days. Why? Because I can trade it in physical. I would not sell anything back to Microsoft. This is probably why Gamestop is working on getting involved in digital sales. I wonder how they will pull it off though.

I've become much more careful about trading in games lately, as I used to do it all the time and have ended up having to rebuy games I'd like to play again a few years down the road a few too many times. While the idea of trading digital games back in is interesting, 10% just wouldn't be enough for me to start doing it. Cool idea, though. 

Actually, what Im suggesting is kinda what MS was going to do before original X1 ideas were scrapped.

My point is Gamestop often gives pennies or a few bucks for many older but popular titles and sells it for 20x the value. They are pretty fair with new releases for like a month.

Even if MS would charge a license transfer fee to give a game away, that would better than what we have now. MS should atleast get that started even if few publishers get involved.

Hmm, should be more like 25-30% for the first couple of months, then drop to 10%.

If you've had the game for more than a couple of months you're not likely to trade imo. I welcome digital trade.

Oh I got what you meant, I'm just not as harsh on GameStop as a lot of people. Even in the most extreme case, say, Madden 06 on PS2, I think the value JUST hits that threshold you're referring to. Everything else is normally above 10%, not below, be it new or old. At least in my experience - and my GS is I believe the last in my state to own PS2 games. (Everything checks in around a buck because they've been trying to get rid of them.)

Not with all the lube in the world would I accept to be screwed That much.
No thank you