Can I sell my PC games?

[very_452001]

I have a used PC game that comes on 3 DVD's and it uses Steam. Can I sell it or I cant cause of DRM?

 

[Guest]

if the games are linked to your steam account then you would be unable to sell to someone else, you can salso at this time not transfer your games to a different steam account. Ready to reply if you need more help.

 

[very_452001]

if the games are linked to your steam account then you would be unable to sell to someone else, you can salso at this time not transfer your games to a different steam account. Ready to reply if you need more help.

So what you saying is that all PC games that require steam to run whether the game is downloaded or bought physical copy from the shop wont work on the new buyer's PC?

Can I unlink the game from my steam account and then resell?

Can the new buyer play the game without steam?

 

[Vynavill]

AFAIK, there's no way to unlink a copy of a game using steam's DRM engine from your account, and unless it's a pirate copy, it won't work without steam whatsoever (it will require steam to be running in online mode before even launching the game). As soon as you link it, it's yours and yours only, and there are hardly any exceptions.

There have been some cases of refunds and "product unlinking", but they were very rare cases. Usually, a refund gets applied in the case one product is deemed 100% unplayable on your machine with attached proof of that fact and only if you couldn't know beforehand.

As an example, some games not too long ago were published on the steam store with simple hardware requirements, while they didn't say anything about DirectX requirements. Some people who got the game with a dx9 card managed to get a refund because the game asked at least for dx10, but it wasn't specified anywhere, and thus they literally didn't have any possibility to play.

If the game isn't using steam's DRM engine, however, it depends on the original retailer.

 

[very_452001]

AFAIK, there's no way to unlink a copy of a game using steam's DRM engine from your account, and unless it's a pirate copy, it won't work without steam whatsoever (it will require steam to be running in online mode before even launching the game). As soon as you link it, it's yours and yours only, and there are hardly any exceptions.

There have been some cases of refunds and "product unlinking", but they were very rare cases. Usually, a refund gets applied in the case one product is deemed 100% unplayable on your machine with attached proof of that fact and only if you couldn't know beforehand.

As an example, some games not too long ago were published on the steam store with simple hardware requirements, while they didn't say anything about DirectX requirements. Some people who got the game with a dx9 card managed to get a refund because the game asked at least for dx10, but it wasn't specified anywhere, and thus they literally didn't have any possibility to play.

If the game isn't using steam's DRM engine, however, it depends on the original retailer.

I cant sell it or trade it even on the steam marketplace?

 

[Vynavill]

[strike]You can't sell it for sure, and I never checked trading, but I highly doubt so...[/strike]

Just double-checked. You can't sell any digital copy, but you can return/resell physical copies as long as they haven't been linked on your account and as long as the retailer accepts that (in case you're returning it rather than reselling it).
You can only trade digital copies which have been bought as a gift.

Sorry, you just can't do anything...

 

[Guest]

if its a game you bought in a shop but yet haven't registered on steam you can sell it and they can register it to there account