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My biggest beef with Steam is that there is no right of resale. It's awesome aside from that though.
by DannoHung 17y ago
My biggest beef with Steam is that there is no right of resale.
It's awesome aside from that though.
- Legion 17y agoSteam and I have a tacit agreement. In exchange for my loss of right of first sale, Steam continues with the aggressive pricing. Not being able to resell games matters to me less when I can buy games cheaper in the first place. This is especially true of archival titles, which (when I could find them) would often be a forgotten beat-up box on a shelf, with an ancient $39.99 price tag still on it. Steam also does a good job with the price drops on recent games. If the game isn't something I necessarily have to have at $50 on release day, I usually don't have to wait too long for a price drop. Obviously, price drops depend on the publisher, but Steam is a storefront geared toward price mobility, and Valve has created a model with their aggressive sales for other publishers to follow.
- blasdel 17y agoI hate that too, but the DRM has a very powerful positive side-effect: getting caught cheating online means you lose your license! The only time you see exploits in TF2 is during the occasional free weekend.