I was a little heated up I think because the old tradition (as is still the current tradition with Console games) is to sell your old games to get money for a new game. This increases the overall longevity of the game considering people who never would have bought it at the normal rate bring new life into it by the purchase of a cheap used game via eBay or a free used gift from a friend/brother/father.

If you buy a game from steam, know that you can never give it to anyone or sell it. You must tell your brothers and friends to give money to Steam even though you own a copy you don’t use anymore.

Also, with the ability to resell used games, I find my likeliness to buy a new game goes up, considering if I decide I don’t like the game, at least I can sell it and get part of my money back and someone else will have a chance to see if they like it even cheaper. The whole digital game delivery market is great, but resell ability is a huge negative and IMHO really effects the starting value of the game too, because its value is reduced to zero immediately after buying it.

In my opinion, as far as customer orientation goes, steam is a big fat fail right now. Once you buy a game on steam, you can never trade or resell it and they (intentionally?) put this in the fine print, so you don’t realize you’re screwed until you wake up cold, naked and sticking to someones bed you didn’t know. I think this kind of intentional customer attack (imo, they do this to “force” addtl. sales) can make an affiliate look as bad as steam. Fix? Steam should make games tradable within the system or sellable- EVEN IF THEY TAKE A SMALL COMMISSION. Bastards. Just want to give you a fair warning so people don’t mistrust your brand due to a brand you understandably were mistaken was customer friendly.

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