Steam users free to resell their digital games, court rules
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Those who purchase digital games are free to resell them, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled.

Finally some good news! I’ve been waiting for quite a while for such a ruling.

Edit: Seems this cites an article from 2012, I didn’t notice that (and it’s still news to me). Though there’s still hope that it’ll happen, EU is slow, but usually eventually gets shit done.

  • Norgur
    16•7 months ago

    Haven’t we had some ruling of that sort on the past where Valve basically went “fuck it,you may be allowed to sell it, but we ain’t implementing anything you could do that with”?

    • @[email protected]English
      18•7 months ago

      The article they reference is over a decade old so it may in fact be this you are remembering.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•7 months ago

      Yeah, but if individuals enter into a contract where the license gets sold, Valve would have to abide by it and allow the 2nd party to download the game. If not, they’d probably be sued. At least, that’s how I understand it. Probably easier if they create a used digital game store and just tack on some sort of shitty “processing” fee to make it simple for everyone.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•7 months ago

      /s: By submitting an encoded JSON post request to Steam’s most overloaded server, users may acquire a sale ticket token, which must then be cryptographically delivered to another user, salted with their Steam user ID.

      There are services that will do this for you, but…charge a 50% premium to provide that service, because no technology is free.