sunbunman

@sunbunman@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU court rules people can resell digital games⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My problem is traditional consumer friendly sales model for digital games are already on the back foot. This ruling only works to dissuade any new or existing Devs from persuing that model over one with microtransaction.

  If anything I want this method of purchasing digital content to be pushed further into any game with purchasable in game items to even the playing field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU court rules people can resell digital games⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people aren’t going through the effort of buying a physical game or any media these days, it’s why digital stores are so effective. But the other commenter did say that steam already has a 2hour refund window that basically has the same impact so I might have panicked for no reason.

  Though my other point about micro transactions vs full box value still stands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU court rules people can resell digital games⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao no were block chain gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU court rules people can resell digital games⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair call, didn’t think of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU court rules people can resell digital games⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because pirating games is not something that the majority of the population is either aware of or wiling to do due to perceived difficulty. This can be done through steam which is the biggest host of PC games and significantly less risky than going to some site and figuring out which copy of a game is legit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU court rules people can resell digital games⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see a massive downside to this ruling. This is talking about resale of a digital game. In reality what would happen is someone would download a game, copy the file to a harddrive, sell the “digital license” or whatever it’s called for a lesser amount and still own a copy of the game. It’s basically simplifying piracy.

  This might actually necessitate game companies to have a hardline DRM approach to their games. Ironically the only games that are protected from this kind of resale are the those that heavily dipped in microtransactions since you can’t resell those and would push the market more in that direction.

  IMHO this ruling is shortsighted and pushes for a future with increased monitisation that isn’t in the box value of the game and targets to hurt the Devs that make consumer friendly games while giving games with loot boxes and microtransactions an advantage in the market when talking in terms of overall sales for the devs.