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There’s nothing to gain from this for the publishers and such. They will however miss out on sales. So I don’t see this happening. The feature would be cool to have as a customer, ofc.

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Kelly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Any platform that offers transferable digital licenses will get a lot of customer loyalty but is likely to have mainstream publishers boycott it.

It could be structured so that everybody wins e.g. the purchaser pays ⅓ less than the “new” price, with their payment then split evenly as cash for the original publisher and store credit for the seller.

That way:

the purchaser gets a discount

the publisher gets a cut of the sale

the seller gets credit to spend on new games,

the platform gets that credit spent on their store (plus any additional money that might be required to complete a purchase)

As a customer I would find that attractive but I think most publishers would consider it a slippery slope.
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