Valve bringing game trade-ins to Steam?

@Raykuza GreenMan Gaming already does it.

Now Gamer? More like Now Liar.

Digital distribution trade-ins? Of course it's bogus. Besides, who would ever want a digital version of Gamestop? Ew.

I'll never sell my games!! :? but I'd love to buy from another user(s). :)

Last night I saw an episode of Southpark and even look at this problem, begins to stop downloading music for free, celebrities are doing worse, in semi-luxury, britney spears no longer buy the F22, but takes an F16. And must see what cool ends. That people buy because they like of that someone or something that sings, plays,etc. All movies or music that you bought are yours. In games, you must ask permission to play until the server dies. Valve prefers to give free games, rather than sell you a game that you play when you want, wherever you want. Look at "Portal". If they sold it without Steam, I'd buy immediately.

If it was true I am sure sales would not come up as often and be as great so better not to have it if you ask me.

man for a second there i was all excited. i have a few STEAM games that i dont want no more. like Counter Strike Source. heck ill even give the game away. but the problem is the game is tied to my account. if they even allow a person to give the CD key rights as a gift to another STEAM user then ill sure as hell be fine with that.

All I realy want to get rid of is Shaun White Snowboarding.

It would be nice, but difficult to implement. Besides, there could be numerous exploits that could appear allowing users to recieve multiple recent games from one old one. There's just too many problems that would occur for it to happen.

EFF. This could have been groundbreaking news for me. What's with all these bogus rumors today? I need to get rid of Portal, Left 4 Dead, and Audiosurf. I would love to take $10 from those. Even $5!

If only I could trade in my MW2 :(

@skullomania2 lol, i dont think they can it isnt a steam game lol and by the way why would i trade any of my game, they are part of my collection. But if they would acept trade i would maybe get rid of blade kitten it is really bad.

won't happen.

Oh man, I would love if it was true... I have to get rid of Painkiller Resurrection.

Awesome! But they will never get my Star Craft :)

This basically amounts to selling access rights to a game, which is downloaded after, played, and when the license is "returned" (or a recurring subscription canceled), the software is simply deleted off the drive. It will probably end up being the future of software as we know it, 10-15 years from now. The key is to get pricing right - low up front, or reimburse part when the license is returned? Could go either way.

Pacther must have been high if he didn't remember.

I would love this service, however I agree; not gonna happen. In a digital transaction, the only thing truly being sold would be your license, which the company can pump out as many as needed; no real point in doing it, a used digital game would not be any different from a new one in any way. excluding any additional dlc that may have come with the new game. Again would love it; lots of games on steam I don't play anymore, but realistically speaking, not gonna happen.

Awww, I was excited for a moment. :(

I love how not even GS believes what Patcher says anymore that they just say Bogus in the bottom

Not sure about this. It would be great for Valve, great for consumers and great for me. I worry about the backlash from Publishers though. They want people to spend full price on a game. Steam already gets away with alot with their amazing sales, but this might push it.

Weird. Cool, but weird. Too bad it's bogus.

between all the digital downloading services, steam remains the best even if they don't implement that feature , steam is great and insanely cheap.

I truly hope they'll go with this. Trading with a friend, of giving a discount on a new title when trading an old purchase. I'm sure this will be great for gamers, and also good for Valve. This will encourage people to buy new titles, and not wait for a discount later on.

I say that because that is the only way to do it with any business sense.

I could see it happening, but only with games that cost like half as much, because that is how it works in real life, and you could basically just buy one game, beat it and trade it in for another. I could see it if say you bought a 50 dollar game and were able to trade it in for something 25 or less, and that still means plenty of games. Say I own Half Life and want to buy Poker Night at the Inventory, I could do that. But if I wanted to trade Half Life for Team Fortress 2, I couldn't.

I know it's fake, but that's such an excellent idea. Trade games from user to user, deduct the price of the game from the user with the less expensive game from the user with the more expensive game, and that user gets the remaining credit. Then after it's all over each user pays 10% of the new games worth to Valve. So basically, the user trading the more expensive game towards the less expensive game would make Steam money and be able to pay that 10% without spending any of their actual money

That would be a great idea , if it was true. That way I can sell games to other steam owners on steam! I dislike registering a game on steam allowing me never to sell it to someone else. There should be some sort of transfer service from account to account model.

Its not true. It even says its bogus in the last line of the article. Would be neat, though.

I guess none of you actually read this... its clearly not true, and never will be true.Even if Steam wanted to do something like this I reeally don't see how they could. Game stores let you trade in games because they pay you a small amount, and then re-sell the games for damn near retail (for new games, and still a decent buck for older games). Its clear where the profit is in trade-in games for stores, yet how would Valve possibly make money on digital trade ins? They can't re-sell used digital games.... so all they would be doing is giving you money to remove a game from your playlist. Theres just no business sense to that at all, and thus you will never see digital trade-ins.

Wow that is like giving away free money? Why would Steam do that?

From a business standpoint, that is quite possibly the worst idea ever. From a consumer perspective... sign me up!

Aww... it would be neat. Do it now steam!

very innovative

someone should seek out prachter and tell him to shut up or they gonna kick his guts out. this guy blabs about everything and anything he can.

Good news if it's true.....

If this is true that would be Awesomeness.