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AceFuzzLord, do gaming w EU court rules people can resell digital games

Wouldn’t surprise me if, assuming this actually comes to fruition, certain game stores such as epic or any of the non-Steam/GoG stores end up implementing the selling of your digital games in the most absolute abhorrent ways imaginable. Things like making the service to sell your games on their shops run at a snails pace, being forced into a profit cut because you use their service, or just flat out editing your account to make you break ToS and then deleting your account.

Magnus, do gaming w EU court rules people can resell digital games

Locked credits to steam and they take a big cut.

Thavron,
@Thavron@lemmy.ca avatar

Fine by me.

mp3,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

Better than nothing I suppose…

krellor, do games w EU court rules people can resell digital games

Am I wrong or is this article simply re-reporting a Eurogamer article from 2012? Because the only source this article cited is a 2012 article from Eurogamer.

can,

Oh shit, good catch. I just followed the links down to the source and didn’t notice the date. Was the OP’s link spun up by AI or something?

krellor,

No idea but it definitely feels like scraping the bottom of the barrel for clicks.

can,

We’ve been had

rikudou,
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Or I, like many others, just haven’t noticed. The thing popped on my news feed.

krellor,

I wasn't saying you did it for clicks. The site published an article that is a rehash of a 11 year old article. They are the ones scraping the barrel.

Shadow,
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trackcharlie, do games w EU court rules people can resell digital games

EU coming in clutch for the consumers again.

e. I clicked it, I was duped it’s all horseshit >_>

Hirom, do gaming w EU court rules people can resell digital games

Please enforce this for console games as well. Digical games and DLCs are typically more expensive than both new and used physical games. Physical games prices usually decrease few months after release, digital one rarely do.

It’s obvious that vendors rely on digital restriction (aka DRMs) to kill the used market and sell older games at higher price. I’m avoiding digital games and DLC because of this, and I’m reluctant to buy a new console given the hard push toward digital games and attempts to kill the used market.

sweetdude, do games w EU court rules people can resell digital games

Am I understanding that correctly? That if I buy a steam game, I can sell that to another person who can then download it from steam? That’s going to be very good for gamers and bad for all those corporations. It would, literally, be a dream come true if this happens.

SpaceNoodle,

I believe the idea is that you would no longer own the license to play the game yourself.

That_whisky_guy,

Time to air gap a new computer.

infinitepcg,

I don’t know how this is good for gamers, it would be the end of perpetual licenses. Every company would move to subscription services immediately.

Madnessx9, do games w EU court rules people can resell digital games

Dumb news article copying info from a 2012 article posted on Reddit yesterday.

can,

And we all played into it.

idiocracy,

brain is easily fooled

AdellcomdoisL, do gaming w EU court rules people can resell digital games

This is an 11 year old article, so hardly “news”

Slimy_hog,

Published 10:20, 04 December 2023 GMT

???

key,
@key@lemmy.keychat.org avatar

Click through to the real article, not the reblog

News by Wesley Yin-Poole Contributor

Updated on 3 Jul 2012

GammaGames, do gaming w EU court rules people can resell digital games

Interesting! I wonder how/if platforms will implement this, maybe my backlog will finally make me some money 😆

cyborganism,

Right??? There’s lots of games I own that I played through once or twice and will probably never play again. I was hoping something like this would come along someday.

tomi000, do games w EU court rules people can resell digital games

Didnt read the article. Does this mean steam will have to give the option to sell games or would you have to sell the whole account?

can, (edited )

Edit: scratch that, someone paying more attention noticed the article cited is from 2012. There have probably been developments in the interim.

It’s unclear(PDF)

Where the copyright holder makes available to his customer a copy - tangible or intangible - and at the same time concludes, in return form payment of a fee, a licence agreement granting the customer the right to use that copy for an unlimited period, that rightholder sells the copy to the customer and thus exhausts his exclusive distribution right. Such a transaction involves a transfer of the right of ownership of the copy. Therefore, even if the licence prohibits a further transfer, the rightholder can no longer oppose the resale of that copy.

WarmSoda,

Looks like it’s individual games. But who knows how this’ll actually go down.

Eric_Pollock, (edited ) do games w EU court rules people can resell digital games
@Eric_Pollock@lemmy.world avatar

I wish so badly that this would come to the US… I have so many games I never play that I wish I could sell off

Edit: nevermind, guess it’s not real… sad

Chewy7324, do gaming w EU court rules people can resell digital games

This article is based on an article from Eurogamer in 2012 [1].

There’re more recent similar rulings like in France in 2019 [2], but Valve already appealed. It will take many years until there’s a final decision.

[1] eurogamer.net/eu-rules-publishers-cannot-stop-you…

[2] tomshardware.com/…/valve-steam-resell-games-ban-f…

hperrin, do games w EU court rules people can resell digital games

What’s next!? Letting people return a game just because it’s trash?? What is this world coming to?

GataZapata, do gaming w Publishers need to stop announcing games that are still years away from launch, gamers agree

'Gamers agree' that would be a historical first lol

admiralteal,

One day news media will stop reporting "Large demographic group enraged!" by citing 2 posts on a random social media platform.

But only because no news media is left.

RoboRay, do gaming w 70 percent of gamers avoid certain games because of 'toxic communities', study finds
@RoboRay@kbin.social avatar

I avoid any fast-paced competitive game designed to appeal to 13 year olds with no attention spans and inferiority complexes.

CIWS-30,

Words to live by. Because even if they're not 13, they act like they're 13 basically forever. cough Elon Musk cough

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