Steam to enable game trade-ins

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http://kotaku.com/5663410/steam-to-intr ... 8Kotaku%29
Right now, if you buy a game from Steam, finish it and don't want it, well, you can...delete it. You can't go trade it in. But there are whispers that the digital purchase giant is considering implementing such a scheme.

Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, taking a break from wildly speculating about the future of the industry, has actually gone on record to say he's heard Valve will soon be allowing those who download a game to trade it in.

"Steam is phenomenal, it's a great service," he told NowGamer. "Steam gives gamers enough other stuff so that they don't resent the fact they can't trade in their games. And you know, name all the Steam games that you've purchased that you've traded back in to somebody else for credit. 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."

Interesting. At the moment, if you delete a game you've purchased, you may not get anything back in return for offloading it, but you can download it again in the future. Giving consumers the option of forsaking that convenience in exchange for credit towards future purchases would, we'd imagine, go down a treat with most of Steam's regular users.
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As far as I'm aware (not saying much there) you can't run games bought through steam without steam.
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True enough. I would also assume you will only be getting a portion of what was paid when getting a trade in.
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I will trade bfbc2 for a hat.
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hulkvsspawn wrote:I will trade bfbc2 for a hat.
even the hatless hats?
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hulkvsspawn wrote:I will trade bfbc2 for a hat.
Who would want to trade for that bug ridden console port pos.
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Joe wrote:
hulkvsspawn wrote:I will trade bfbc2 for a hat.
Who would want to trade for that bug ridden console port pos.
hulk, apparently.
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I was about to post and ask about this again, have they started this? Does anyone know if there are other sites that et you do it?
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"Valve's Doug Lombardi tells us "Untrue. We've never actually met with Mr. Pachter.""
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Im mad this never happened.
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it happened.

http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=6040

Even though you can only trade games that were bought as a gift, not your used games. WTF
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Lord Melchior wrote:it happened.

http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=6040

Even though you can only trade games that were bought as a gift, not your used games. WTF
LOL. So basically, they want you to be able to say, "fuck you!" to anyone who gifts you a game?

"Happy birthday! Here's a game!"
"Hey, thanks! I'm not even gonna play it, I'm just gonna trade it in!"
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I'm going to take a guess that if you were gifted a game you cannot trade it. You probably have to buy the game as a gift code to be able to trade it.
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I think Newman is right, You have to have it in Steam to trade it, and You can only get it in Steam if you bought it yourself as a gift.

Games gifted to you are automatically activated in Steam. So you wouldn't be able to trade those.
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