German group sues Valve

I know it would be awesome to resell digital content indefintely , but i can easily see why this is undesirable. So i buy game, sell it to my buddy for 1$, later i buy it back for 1$. And so on till all my skypefriends are played it. Developer gots 1$, whole bunch played it. Story is different with real/nondigital goods, where your product gets worse with every new user. Digital content must be handled diferently, but i agree that no-resell at all is not best solution. I say you are able to resell digital good once every 3 months or smth. That would be fair to both developer and customer.

Everybody have a right to resell a game if he own buy it. This is law and any of Eula can't break it. Everything what valve actually doing is breaking our constitutional right. We have to fight for the laws.

I don't see why people are dogging on the German group for, they're right. If we purchase a product, we should be able to sell it.

Hey guys, I wanna sell you Trine, at a low offer of $5.99 so I can buy a Big Mac,... but oh wait, steam is having another sale... Trine steam collection $0.50 !!
Darn

This is so meh.

Its amazing what big companies get away with because most people don't know the actual law. Many people assume that all the terms are legally binding because Its In the small print or because they have agreed to It. If the judiciary ascertain that Its not legally binding then that's the bottom line.

Honestly? I wish every hard copy of a game come with a digital download option. You got a passcode so if you lose your hard copy (or with what happened to me someone broke in and stole my games and Xbox) then you can redownload via your account for free like other dlc. I LOVE Microsoft allowing me to redownload all my old dlc for free. I wish hardcopy of games come with a pass to allow me to download said game itself. I think everything should 'unlock' online I mean even a phone internet can send a bloody simple code to unlock something and who doesn't have a phone? If I can do it for WoW and all Blizzard games why not console ones?

The ONLY reason I support a game company rights is because my stuff would have no value to a thief if said material was trackable and unusable unless activated online. I do NOT support piracy (though I used to copy cassettes back in the day =) in any costly form.) Jobs are hard enough to come by no dev should be losing their shirt (or having their consoles stolen) because of people wanting to resell.

I wouldn't have bought used copies of skyrim and Mortal Kombat among other games I lost if I could have digitally be able to download them. ( I tend to want to have hardcopies of my games) Just saying.

Can't decide if I want Valve or the German guys to win, but this is the main reason I don't buy digital-only games unless they're really cheap.

LOL

what a nonsense trip..!

I don't really care about selling my Steam games but I wouldn't mind being able to trade owned games in for credit towards a game I want to purchase.

If you give a game company your money, it's kind of like putting down an option on buying their next game, ie: they'll make more games. If game companies don't get money, they don't make games.

I live in Brazil and technology is 2 - 3 x more expensive than in the rest of the world, games included. Valve ducks this trend by selling cheaper than in the USA. Even like that I buy games on special, that's already very cheap.

Who's the greedy party here?

Good thing you are here to prove that gamers aren't violent..........Oh wait now I see why this is being debated politically.

@Darnasian Calm down buddy.

Its a good thing considering that Valve is one of the most greedy game companies out there. I see why they don't allow it but i also see why they should. I've had 2 accounts hacked but Valve wouldnt do a thing because they wanted me to buy all the games again that i should have already owned in the first place. There games are also average at best. I hope they get whats coming.

We PC gamers can't sell disc based copies due to DRM, never mind digital downloads witch don't make sense to resell as its not a physical product, its our choice if we want to buy games from steam or not, and how the hell would reselling games on steam would work out, with all those sales? What is going to determine the price of games? Its just not going to work, and why this law suit now after all these years?

WTF and people complain about the next xbox or ps blocking used games. Same thing. We should have the right to sell our games whether its on discs or digital form.

Look, the way I see it VZBV have a point if you belong to the group of people that buy games new from Steam for prices over 45-50 euros.

However for me, a gamer that only buys from Steam when they offer sales, and has bought many new games for less than 10 euros, I just can't find the "guts" to complain to them that they won't let me re-sell my games...

Hmm i think they may be behind by many many years at this point on this one.

Ya know....since you can't typically resell even physical copies......when it comes to pc...typically...so ya...this is just stupid.