Trade in old games for steam credit

[Trenton McDowley]

I think we should be able to trade in old games that we've beaten or are just cluttering up the library for steam credit. They could even do it like game stop and trade it in for almost nothing, I'd rather have a few bucks in steam credit than the 20 games in my library I know I'll never play. It may even help sales, having a few bucks credit makes it more likely you'll buy things through the steam store instead of epic or something else.

[FFL2and3rocks]

Steam isn't Gamestop. They have no use for your old games.

[Wolf Knight]

use the search, been asked for before, been shot to pieces every time.

1. end of any sales and discounts
2. you dont have anything to trade in.
3. games dont suffer from wear and tear
4. everytime you download a game, you get a brand new copy of the code.

[cinedine]

For every dollar they give you and you spend on a non-Valve game, they lose 70 cents.

Gamestop makes 200+ % on older used games. Even on newer games that you trade in right away the difference between what they pay you and what they sell it for is basically pure profit. Additionally they don't need to order new games from the publisher saving them even more money on top of it.

[nullable]

Trenton McDowley の投稿を引用：

I think we should be able to trade in old games that we've beaten or are just cluttering up the library for steam credit. They could even do it like game stop and trade it in for almost nothing, I'd rather have a few bucks in steam credit than the 20 games in my library I know I'll never play. It may even help sales, having a few bucks credit makes it more likely you'll buy things through the steam store instead of epic or something else.

This idea sounds great for you. But ideas need to have benefits for you, Steam, and the developer/publisher. Or at the very worst benefits for one, and zero impact on the others.

Your idea benefits you. It doesn't benefit Valve much at all. Valve's not really hurting and doesn't need to pay you to keep shopping on Steam. They also don't need to figure out ways to prevent you from shopping on Epic. Epic is boogey man for clueless steam fans boys, not for Valve.

[76561198407601200]

Trenton McDowley の投稿を引用：

I think we should be able to trade in old games that we've beaten or are just cluttering up the library for steam credit. They could even do it like game stop and trade it in for almost nothing, I'd rather have a few bucks in steam credit than the 20 games in my library I know I'll never play. It may even help sales, having a few bucks credit makes it more likely you'll buy things through the steam store instead of epic or something else.

That idea does not work with digital platforms, you would require physical copies and a brick and mortar store willing to purchase.

[Crazy Tiger]

Your license will remain tied to your account. So essentially you want Steam to give you money for nothing.

[Tito Shivan]

cinedine の投稿を引用：

Gamestop makes 200+ % on older used games. Even on newer games that you trade in right away the difference between what they pay you and what they sell it for is basically pure profit. Additionally they don't need to order new games from the publisher saving them even more money on top of it.

TLDR: It is a business for Gamestop only because there's a party (dev/publisher) not getting their share.

Also let's not forget OP's suggestion was already tried by GMG... And it didn't quite work out.
He can try Robot Cache now. They do trade in games bought in their store.

[Trenton McDowley]

I agree with everyone, I'm just saying if they returned the smallest percentage, like 50 cents on a 60 dollar game I'd be more likely to buy more games since I now have in store credit. Right now, I have no incentive to spend any money on games, redirected since there's so many in my library.

[FFL2and3rocks]

A "smallest percentage" is still a lot of money when Steam has millions of users. They wouldn't profit from this.

[nullable]

Trenton McDowley の投稿を引用：

I agree with everyone, I'm just saying if they returned the smallest percentage, like 50 cents on a 60 dollar game I'd be more likely to buy more games since I now have in store credit. Right now, I have no incentive to spend any money on games, redirected since there's so many in my library.

1. Well the specifics you're suggesting appeal to you, the idea of getting something like ~1% on old games probably sounds like a ripoff to anyone who didn't come up with that number. And that could end up being a huge PR disaster: Valve trying to rip off customers with 1% buyback scheme.
   
2. Arguably your lack of enthusiasm for buying games isn't universal and Steam might not be that interested in your particular demographic. "If Valve gives me money I'll buy more games." Might not be a killer sales pitch.
   
3. Lots of people have a few hundred games they impulse bought, or otherwise don't care about so even at 1% there's the potential to sell back tens or hundreds of games. Across millions of accounts we're likely talking tens of millions maybe hundreds of millions in new store credit. And that might not be a cash cow for Valve...

Yeah, it's not hard to understand how getting something for nothing. Valve effectively paying you to restrict access to content you purchased, has an appeal. Because that's what it is. They're not buying those licenses back. Those licenses have no value to them. And there's just not much incentive to pay you for content restrictions...

[Satoru]

Trenton McDowley の投稿を引用：

I agree with everyone, I'm just saying if they returned the smallest percentage, like 50 cents on a 60 dollar game I'd be more likely to buy more games since I now have in store credit. Right now, I have no incentive to spend any money on games, redirected since there's so many in my library.

Step 1) hijack your account
Step 2) sell your copy of Subnautica, AC4 and whatever I can
Step 3) “gift” games to my main via the funds I got from selling all your stuff
Step 4) give back your account

[76561198407601200]

Trenton McDowley の投稿を引用：

I agree with everyone, I'm just saying if they returned the smallest percentage, like 50 cents on a 60 dollar game I'd be more likely to buy more games since I now have in store credit. Right now, I have no incentive to spend any money on games, redirected since there's so many in my library.

Again,

DOES
NOT
WORK
ON
DIGITAL
PLATFORMS

Which part of that are you having difficulty understanding?

[Brian9824]

Trenton McDowley の投稿を引用：

I agree with everyone, I'm just saying if they returned the smallest percentage, like 50 cents on a 60 dollar game I'd be more likely to buy more games since I now have in store credit. Right now, I have no incentive to spend any money on games, redirected since there's so many in my library.

Again steam has over 1 billion accounts, if everyone sold back 1 game and got .50 that would cost steam over 500 million dollars. The actual amount would be far more

[B✪✪tsy]

Satoru の投稿を引用：

Trenton McDowley の投稿を引用：

I agree with everyone, I'm just saying if they returned the smallest percentage, like 50 cents on a 60 dollar game I'd be more likely to buy more games since I now have in store credit. Right now, I have no incentive to spend any money on games, redirected since there's so many in my library.

Step 1) hijack your account
Step 2) sell your copy of Subnautica, AC4 and whatever I can
Step 3) “gift” games to my main via the funds I got from selling all your stuff
Step 4) give back your account

Thats the problem of such a massive platform like Steam, it will always attract the bad people. A lot of good things can't be implemented, because of abuse and criminal activities.

[Szczerbatus]

This is soo good idea