Comment on Do you wish that you could recycle games?

TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• smeg@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think there is a digital games storefront that lets you sell your games (robot cache maybe?) and it seems pretty NFT-ish, so yeah

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  • Kelly@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I just had a look at their offer and it has a few issues.

    • Customers can’t resell a game license until 90 days after its release day and 7 days after their purchase (whichever is later).
    • The option to list a license for sale may be revoked if the publisher delists the title
    • The resale price is 100% of the current store price for the title but the reseller recieves only a 25% “resale commission”.
    • This commission can be paid as store currency “IRON” or credited to your original payment method for a fee. If you original payment method has expired then only IRON is available.

    help.robotcache.com/…/360029179691-Resale-Policy

    So they keep 75% of resale revenue, the purchaser doesn’t see any discounts, and it can’t be used to access delisted games?

    Its a bit of a monkey paw.

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I imagine that’s the only thing they could get the publishers to agree to. Still, it’s better than nothing!

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is exactly my worry.

  Suppose that on some level, this was possible. You wouldn’t see nice, cozy instances of people who’ve finished their old collection selling them to low-income folks that just got their first Steam Deck. You’d put some games on sale for $10, and an automated Python script would automatically buy them and put them back up for sale for $49.98, one cent less than the new copies being sold.

  When literally every single digital copy of a game is “equivalent”, the used games market just doesn’t make sense - although there’s a hundred third-party sites that would like it to work that way so they can take their un-earned cut.

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