Valve has hit back at claims made by Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, that suggested digital games platform Steam is to start a trade-in service.
"Steam's about to let you do that supposedly - you know, like trade and exchange - but they're going to take a fee from it," the great ponderer told NowGamer on Wednesday. We were wondering how such a system would work, and it turns out we didn't need to, because the whole thing was codswallop.
"Untrue. We've never met with Mr. Pachter," Valve's Doug Lombardi clarified in a statement to Blues News. That settles that, then. But would you want to see such a service on Steam? Let us know your thoughts in the forum below.
Source: NowGamer
"Steam's about to let you do that supposedly - you know, like trade and exchange - but they're going to take a fee from it," the great ponderer told NowGamer on Wednesday. We were wondering how such a system would work, and it turns out we didn't need to, because the whole thing was codswallop.
"Untrue. We've never met with Mr. Pachter," Valve's Doug Lombardi clarified in a statement to Blues News. That settles that, then. But would you want to see such a service on Steam? Let us know your thoughts in the forum below.
Source: NowGamer
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Andy 15 Oct 2010 13:04
1/3
How do you trade in something virtual?
irritant 15 Oct 2010 14:42
2/3
@Andy Pretty easy, really. Steam lets you install and uninstall games you've paid for over and over. You'd log in to Steam, press whatever button necessary to trade in a particular game, it'd be uninstalled and removed from your list of purchased games, you'd get credit in the Steam store.
Wez 16 Oct 2010 17:34
3/3
@irritant I think you missed his point. The idea behind trade-ins is that the shop (Valve in this case) can re-sell the game at a reduced price. Now as steam can't resell a download the would effectively being giving away free games to people (or just giving out refunds)