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This is great. Anything that may only be "owned" by one person at a time should categorically be able to be resold. Licenses too. If you're a proponent for capitalism (which I guess all publisher decision-makers are), then let the market work. The profit motive will solve all problems.

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I think this means that either prices for the first copy sold will go up, or profit from games will go down, since the marginal late purchaser will be getting their copy second hand instead of purchasing it new. As a customer of mostly non-AAA / indie games (I.e. often borderline profitable), both of these outcomes are a negative for me.

If you are a customer of AAA games, and/or if you think there is no more room for prices to go up, this would be a good outcome for you.

I think “[the market] will solve all problems” is a bit too simplistic an analysis.

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