Valve Won't Change Policies After Recent EU Ruling on Reselling PC Games

[Shawn Zipay]

Last week, the Court of Justice in the European Union ruled that publishers cannot prevent gamers from reselling their unwanted downloaded games. It was a bit of a big deal and many wondered how Valve was going to tackle this situation.

It turns out they're largely shrugging their shoulders at the whole situation. Valve's Jason Holtman explains the company's stance based on that recent ruling.

"We don’t have any plans to change."

Short, sweet, and to the point.

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[Scinto]

Good luck with that. Things will change.

[Vreki]

Re: Valve Won't Change Policies After Recent EU Ruling on Reselling PC Games

The other thread died pretty quickly, but what the ruling actually said what that
IF endusers had purchased a second hand license
THEN the publisher could not prevent them from obtaining an otherwise free download of the software in question

It did NOT require the publishers to enable the transfer of licenses, or adress the selling of accounts.

Baiscally it was about transferring ownership of time-limited Oracle licenses.