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EU court rules people can resell digital games (www.gamingbible.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by rikudou@lemmings.world to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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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.

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[–] Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social -3 points 11 months ago (14 children)

Being able to resell digital games would completely fuck single player games. I imagine a handful of licenses would get sold at launch and then redistributed between people endlessly, until sales just bottom out completely when you can get a second-hand key for pennies. There would probably be a big shift towards games with lots of replay value like multiplayer or roguelikes.

[–] ADHDefy@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Tbf, that's not what happened with physical games. Idk why it would be any different for digital keys.

[–] Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

One is a physical collectable and the other is not. It's like comparing an NFT to a Funko pop, there is a reason the latter never took off. If you think digital goods have value as collectables, then surely you also think NFTs have value as collectables? (The current NFT market would state otherwise...)

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 11 months ago

The latter did take off tho, funko pops are a big brand.

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