Steam could at least allow you to trade only 1 time your used games for items(specifically only cosmetic items purchased in the store).

[Noob]

or credit that are worth only to buy cosmetic items, off course the trade should be in the same value between the price of the game in the store and the price of the items; not a game who is priced $59 in the store at that moment for $2 in items bought at that moment in the store, but an equal amount, $59 in game for $59 in items. Also you would'nt be able to trade those items(along with the games) again to avoid many people get a lot of games with the purchase of a few items. Valve wouldn't have any loss, since they are only cosmetic and I(at last myself), wouldn't buy anyway or doesn't have money to spend on all those cosmetic items I would get trading a huge amount of games I don't want anymore! Many people prefer to buy games in physical media(at least the expensive ones, releases who are not with huge discounts) because you can't trade if acquired on Steam after using; this way this idea would even stimulate more people to join or buy expensive games and releases in Steam, and it would also stop a lot of selling of accounts on Internet which is against the terms of the service.
It wouldn't give losses to you Valve, you would even have more profit, isn't this idea creative Valve? Thanks for the attention.

Update: Also I forget to mention the price you would have to sell the game would be the full price, off course, not the price of the game in sales.

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Sorry for any errors on my writting, I'm not a native speaker.

[Marble]

You cannot trade/sell something you don't own.

When you activate a product on Steam, you are paying for the license to use it. You do not actually own anything.

Also, this idea would not work because not everyone plays games that have cosmetic microtransaction items.

[Noob]

Canti님이 먼저 게시:

You cannot trade/sell something you don't own.

When you activate a product on Steam, you are paying for the license to use it. You do not actually own anything.

Also, this idea would not work because not everyone plays games that have cosmetic microtransaction items.

But people who play could at least trade games they don't want anymore (or that they didn't like and don't get a refund from Valve) for cosmetics items, it wouldn't hurt anyone.

[That Guy]

1 probably never going to happen

2 even if they did there would be a problem . steam has constant sales . and some are from 50-90% off . you buy durring sale "trade in" after

3 physical copies of many pc games have key codes that are 1 time "mainly talking about anything that has any sort of online feature" . you ever try to "trade in" a pc game at game stop ? you cant .

4 some games like dont starve would generate problems since if you bought it befor it went live you got a buy 1 get 1 free deal and klei also gives you a googlechrome key for buying from steam . you trade in your steam game you still would have your chrome key and may have used it

^on the previous example it should be stated you could have bought it for googlechrome and got a steam key and traded in the steam key game and kept the chrome version since klei wanted to be fair to players

[Noob]

NoOne님이 먼저 게시:

1 probably never going to happen

2 even if they did there would be a problem . steam has constant sales . and some are from 50-90% off . you buy durring sale "trade in" after

3 physical copies of many pc games have key codes that are 1 time "mainly talking about anything that has any sort of online feature" . you ever try to "trade in" a pc game at game stop ? you cant .

4 some games like dont starve would generate problems since if you bought it befor it went live you got a buy 1 get 1 free deal and klei also gives you a googlechrome key for buying from steam . you trade in your steam game you still would have your chrome key and may have used it

^on the previous example it should be stated you could have bought it for googlechrome and got a steam key and traded in the steam key game and kept the chrome version since klei wanted to be fair to players

2 - So, the price you sell the game would have to be the full price, not the price of the game in sales.
3 - Regarding the games with online pass, there are still great expensive releases that you can buy out of steam and doesn't have online pass.
4 - If you get free keys from other platforms you will give them to anyone you want, doesn't change anything, today you can do this the same way.

[Tito Shivan]

This has been discussed until boredom on the forums

[Noob]

Tito Shivan님이 먼저 게시:

This has been discussed until boredom on the forums

But my idea is creative and very different from anything thought before because it in fact gives more profit to Valve, instead of the opposite.

[Noob]

At least I read they are thinking on it: http://www.vg247.com/2011/08/27/newell-discusses-whether-steam-will-ever-allow-used-game-trade-ins/

Maybe they are thinking in the best way to do it.

[Noob]

I, particurlarly, have a lot of Windows games I don't want anymore since Steam is on Linux.

[Noob]

They could at least implement a discount to buy new games in exchange of your old ones, like Green Man Gaming do, this would even stimulate you to spend more and buy more games.

[Silicon Vampire]

Bumping, multiple posting is frowned upon. Please use the edit feature when necessary to add info.

This is something that Valve can not choose to do, it's up to each publisher.