Steam might allow game sharing

[KaOTiK]

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the main issue for valve is how to prevent people from buying a bunch of copies of games on $5 sales and selling later for non sale price. people could undercut valve's price which might discourage some publishers from allowing valve to offer the low price sales.

People already do that. They purchase copies as gifts and sell them later on.

They will allow selling through the marketplace, that is the main reason the marketplace was made was due to that EU ruling.

It will be nice to have the option. Only reason you don't hear much complaining is because of how cheap you can get games on Steam. I mean you can purchase nearly any game during sales for cheaper than what it would normally cost a rent a game nowadays and beat heh.

 

[Lonyo]

Actually... if they do enable selling of games, I can make a load of money buying games from Amazon boxed and then reselling on Steam for a price lower than Steam but higher than I paid.

Could be awesome. Hopefully they will add this ASAP.

 

[gorobei]

remember, selling and getting money back |= steam store credit.

 

[Dumac]

*no longer supported XBone features

 

[Aikouka]

It would be pretty sweet if I could share games with my separate HTPC account. I normally just gift it games that work with a controller and are on sale. Humble Bundles also work well at giving me games for that account.

 

[EDUSAN]

if they do it, im pretty sure they are gonna make something bad to compensate for it.

like

1) stop doing big sales, after all, you will be able to play a game bought by someone else
2) giving a time limit to play a borrowed game
3) requiring a borrowing fee

or some other shiet

 

[alangrift]

That's not quite accurate. Only *some* games will translate to a gift code, typically Valve games.

If you already own GTA4, and then you buy some Rockstar bundle on sale, you do *not* get a giftable GTA4 code, etc. There's a list of specific games that will give you an extra code like you said on the forums somewhere.

And yes, you can buy a second copy of a game you already own normally, as long as it is a gift code, the interface prevents you from accidentally double purchasing a single game you already own. The "Buy this for myself" button is replaced with a green "I already own it" icon.

Ahh, that's interesting. So technically you could buy the same game twice, once individually and once in a bundle.