Pachter: Valve Will Offer Trade-ins on Steam

[The Procrastinated End]

I love you Valve.

 

[Exort]

This has to be the dumbest prediction ever. It doesn't make sense, how do developers make money off of this?

And Valve has always been about developers.

That small fee he mentioned, thats most likely what the developers would get. And besides, they already got your money when you bought the game, or when a friend bought it and gifted it to you.

But now they are returning it to you (except a small fee)? who pay that? the internet god?

 

[Weaver]

I don't think this will happen.
PC gamers have been without trade-ins for like 20 years now, we really don't care.

What I WOULD like to see is a rental service.

So I can give Steam 5-10 dollars, they give me a game for 3-7 days and then after that it will be deleted from my HD.

you can do this with onlive. its great. i rent games for 5 bucks and play them for a couple days. try it out.

Then I would need to
1) Live in a country where OnLive is supported.
2) Find an ISP which has wayyyyy higher bandwidth limits than my current provider.
3) Pay a monthly fee.

 

[josh797]

I don't think this will happen.
PC gamers have been without trade-ins for like 20 years now, we really don't care.

What I WOULD like to see is a rental service.

So I can give Steam 5-10 dollars, they give me a game for 3-7 days and then after that it will be deleted from my HD.

you can do this with onlive. its great. i rent games for 5 bucks and play them for a couple days. try it out.

Then I would need to
1) Live in a country where OnLive is supported.
2) Find an ISP which has wayyyyy higher bandwidth limits than my current provider.
3) Pay a monthly fee.

well 3 is wrong, they recently killed the monthly fee. but yeah, the rest of those issues are rather tough to work around. sorry :-(

 

[DaxStrife]

I can't see it happening... what you really buy on Steam is the right to download and play the game; there's no physical copy to return. You'd just be selling them back the rights to the game, and since it's all digital there's nothing for Valve to take and re-sell.

I'd rather see them just lower the prices on digital copies to something below normal store price since, you know, there's no physical copy and thus no publishing/manufacturing expenses and waste.

 

[Thedayrecker]

Valve wins this round. Come back next week when they win again.

 

[Dogstile]

I don't see how this would work at all.

 

[Irridium]

This has to be the dumbest prediction ever. It doesn't make sense, how do developers make money off of this?

And Valve has always been about developers.

That small fee he mentioned, thats most likely what the developers would get. And besides, they already got your money when you bought the game, or when a friend bought it and gifted it to you.

But now they are returning it to you (except a small fee)? who pay that? the internet god?

Well how does gamestop pay you for your used games?

It would work like the retail used games market. Just in digital form. Thats how I see it working anyways.

 

[lacktheknack]

Do it! I suck at Multiwinia anyways!

 

[PissOffRoth]

another reason to not use Steam?

first thing pops into mind if an unknown user with malicious intent had access to someone else's account.

Just contact steam. They'd probably be willing to help you if you explained the situation. Not a big deal.

 

[archvile93]

That would be a good idea, but I'd rather they put real money back into my bank account than get some fake money that only works on steam. Maybe they could send people checks (I'm kidding by the way).

 

[Mcface]

What with all the steam deals. Imagine you bought an L4D2 4pack last week, when it was 3x6.99 euros (yay, belgium -.-).
It's reverted back to 20 euros for just a single copy of L4D2. How much would you get back for turning in one of those L4D2 copies, 50% of the cost? You'd either be making a profit off the steam deals, or hardly getting anything back (if they'd give only 25% back or something)...

Wouldn't call it plausible, really.

This.
not sure how it would even work.

 

[Mcface]

I don't think this will happen.
PC gamers have been without trade-ins for like 20 years now, we really don't care.

What I WOULD like to see is a rental service.

So I can give Steam 5-10 dollars, they give me a game for 3-7 days and then after that it will be deleted from my HD.

Would make it even easier to pirate games.
A guy would rent the game, break the files and upload them.

Since the rental would probably be Steam Side and not game client side.

 

[lacktheknack]

another reason to not use Steam?

first thing pops into mind if an unknown user with malicious intent had access to someone else's account.

Because changing the password and blocking the user out is so much different.

Can someone explain to me how this would work? How do they stop you from copying the game's folders and then trading it in?

They don't... but after the game is removed from your account, it's blocked! Unless you crack it, which would be illegal.

 

[icyneesan]

I'd love to trade in some of my old games in for some newer ones. I, Like many other people, have been tricked into buying rather crappy PC games for cheap on Steam due to there god damn sales.

 

[Enigmers]

I wouldn't mind trading in some of the games I don't play anymore, as long as the price is right. I'd love to be able to trade games with friends, though. I don't particularly like CSS or Day of Defeat Source, I'd gift those to my brother and a friend of mine, respectively (or trade them in to buy the second season of Sam & Max)

 

[V8 Ninja]

But wouldn't this completely break the system since people would just buy games during insanely low-priced sales and then trade them back in after the sales were done, making more money than off of the games than they actually payed for?

 

[Plurralbles]

But wouldn't this completely break the system since people would just buy games during insanely low-priced sales and then trade them back in after the sales were done, making more money than off of the games than they actually payed for?

no, i"m pretty sure they would keep track of that.


Or I could do this: "yes I want to trade in my portal(a game they gave out for free and got me to start using steam)" : )

 

[SirDerick]

Well, I got the eidos pack (20 games) for 40$ and only played batman. Will I be able to trade in the other 19 games?

Seems kinda hard to ask questions about something that might never exist.

 

[Saulkar]

I will be all for it so long as this includings giving it to someone else for free as a gift or reselling it to them, for a fee to Valve of course. (should that even be allowed since it is not a physical object and thus cannot deteriorate and thus should not be discounted?)