MW2 + Steam...why??

[MStele]

the most frustrating part of it is Steam could easily let you sell it if they wanted. They have the whole gifting games thing already set up, it would be easy for them to let you digitally gift a game you already own to someone else and deactivate it from you.

Steam is beholden to the developers from whom the games come from. They do gifting only for their own games. For the rest, they can only go by the terms set by developers. Steam is merely a distribution system. They don't own the games they process (except for Valve developed games). They can't easily sell them if they wanted. They get a commission on every license they sell. It is in neither Steam or developers best interest to let you gift games, since it defeats the whole point of online distribution. Gifting would basically allow digital freeloading since a group of people could then just keep bouncing a single license to each other. Buts lets assume they allow one instance of gifting per license. Then people would complain that its not fair that they can't gift a game that they received as a gift. Its easier just to say no and leave it at that.

 

[Mide]

Do that many people really sell games? I mean, every Steam thread is full of bitching about "oh I can't sell my games" but do people actually do that? Is the second hand market so big that it should be tolerated for all this whining? I have never bought a second hand PC game. And come to think of it, I've never bought a second hand console game either.

Few board games I've purchased off the second hand market though. Never complete though. Imagine a game of Scrabble where you're missing and "A"! Ridiculous!

Short answer is yes. There is a secondary market for everything.

 

[Rebel44]

Giftng already owned games would also create even more problem with scammed users - this way even if some1 get access to your account you can get it back with all your games still there.