Poll: EU on second hand downloadable games.

[Martin Toney]

So, the EU ruled that there is nothing companies can do to stop the re-selling of downloaded games. This will obviously effect the market, in which way (good or bad) remains to be seen. My view on it is that the creators will probably start to talk about pre-owned games killing their companies and the market(again). Now I think they are perfectly entitled to complain and appeal the re-selling of their games, as long as they don't try to use this as a platform to completely stop the re-sell of game in general. My second concern is that the re-sell of downloaded games sounds very risky, in terms of safety. Buying a game from the likes of steam is all fine and dandy, but would you feel safe downloading a game from a strangers computer? Or are we going to receive a dedicated market place that can handle transactions. This in turn can create jobs, which would make the EU ruling a good call, but obviously only when it meets certain criteria.
So what are your thoughts on the subject fellow escapee's?

 

[dimensional]

I think its a good thing as options are always good and it will hopefully lead to more competition in digital downloads rather than them just setting a stupid price that never alters except maybe in a couple of sales. Im not sure how it affects companies who say you are just buying a service not the game so to speak as you are in fact selling the game so you must have some ownership over it.

I would imagine sites would be set up where you have to upload your game to for the paye to download off rather than off your own comp and those sites would crib some of the profit.

Also whats going to happen with DRM now you can resell it? will developers/publishers have to scale back on it or even remove it? as that effects the resell value a hell of a lot and games being tied to accounts as well they need to sort this out. Its all well and good ruling its legal but in a lot of cases it not even possible.