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Reselling games on Steam seems so silly to me. Many of my games cost less than $1 because I bought them in bulk during the big seasonal sales. What am I going to resell them for 50 cents? Too much effort!

Maybe it makes more sense to resell those $80 AAA games, but I get the feeling those who are thrifty enough to want to resell games all the time are probably fine with waiting until they go on sale anyway.

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It's patently absurd to state that anybody who buys a product new would, by virtue of buying it new, be the sort of person who'd never sell that product after they're bored with it.

What you're missing, is that Steam's heavily discounted sales exist because the games cannot be resold. Just compare Steam to the market for new/used console games.

That is to say, the situation you're describing should never exist -- games will be either cheap (current situation) or more expensive with a secondary used market.

> Many of my games cost less than $1 because I bought them in bulk during the big seasonal sales.

I guess these are small games then because the games I see on sale during seasonal sales (and I have a wishlist of 170+) are def. going for more than a few EUR.

My daughter (2) has all kind of physical toys such as wooden toys. If I would not be able to resell these (and I am, as it is durable) she'd have much less of it. Ergo, I believe this is going to lead to increased sales. If I have 100 EUR a month available to spend on fun things such as games, then either I buy 2 games of 50 EUR, or I buy 4 games of 25 EUR. I cannot buy games worth more than 100 EUR. Yes, I can spend the money on something else or save up or wait on a sale, but you can do the same right now. The problem with indie games is that too many people buy the pop shit like the latest Call of Duty (which has been terrible ever since MW2).

>What am I going to resell them for 50 cents? Too much effort!

Don't people already sell steam trading cards for even less than that?

>Reselling games on Steam seems so silly to me. Many of my games cost less than $1 because I bought them in bulk during the big seasonal sales. What am I going to resell them for 50 cents?

I would be happy to gift the games to a relative/friend or even to random people.

Steam family support is pathetic, it made me use GOG or pirate games I already own because I can install/update/play a game in Steam if my son is at the same time playing Garry's Mod

Why do you have to resell it for less than you paid?

Even if you do, it hardly matters. I bought my car new and sold it used for less money. It's very common to buy something new then sell it when you're through with it.

Why would you expect to get what you paid for on resale?

Old things aren't worth as much, generally...

If he got his games in a bundle as he stated, and the bundle do no longer exist,, he could resell these games at a price closer to the standalone price, usually higher

This will guarantee the death of those bundles. It will give a few hundred dollars in profit to whoever bothers to collect on the resale arbitrage and change the sellers landscape for a decade or more.

I used to make money doing this by buying games from the humble bundle, waiting for the price to go up on G2A, then reselling them

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