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Sell Your Digital Games! The Digital Gaming Revolution has begun!!! - The Nerf Report
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are you listening the digital revolution
one major trend in gaming right now is
the digitalization of gaming for example
in 2018 PC gaming saw over 83% of games
sold on the platform being digital and
this has been a trend that has been
going on since 2009 with a number of
digital games sold on PC was merely 20%
but as far as console gaming goes the
digital revolution really hasn't arrived
because in 2017 23.2% of games sold or
accounted as digital games so if we take
the trend of the digitalization of PC
games and apply that to console gaming
over the next ten years that 23.2% could
grow to 80 percent leading to a digital
revolution and honestly all three major
console manufacturers are already
pushing their digital storefronts
PlayStation Microsoft and Nintendo all
features stores where gamers can
purchase games DLC in-game currency and
other various services and with services
like PlayStation now or Xbox game pass
offering access to hundreds of digital
games behind a small monthly fee in many
ways we are seeing the dawn of a console
based digital revolution right now
however that revolution may have just
been stalled because this week a court
ruling in France may have changed
digital gaming forever because this week
a French Court ruled in favor of a
consumer protection group called UFC cue
shazier who had filed a complaint
against the PC digital gaming platform
steam stating a steam subscriber
agreement was a breach and French
consumer laws more specifically pointing
out that steams subscriber agreement
explicitly forbids users to sell their
games despite the transfer of ownership
of digital products
licenses being legal and that it is
impossible to get the money on your
steam wallet back if your account is
closed deleted or banned now per the UFC
the courts ruled that 14 of steams
clauses were indeed abusive valve must
reimburse steam wallet funds to users
who request it and steam can no longer
oppose the resale of this copy or copy
even if the initial purchase is made by
downloading or in English if you buy a
digital game from Steam you now have the
right to resell that digital product and
this is the point where I probably
should note this is only a ruling for
French gamers and steam does plan on
appealing this ruling in fact a valve
representative responded to Kotaku via
email saying we disagree with the
decision of the Paris Court of First
Instance
and will appeal it the decision will
have no effect on steam while the case
is in appeal but if that appeal fails to
make any ground our digital revolution
isn't over in fact in many ways is just
evolving because this ruling makes the
move to digital gaming so much more
appealing like what are the biggest
appeals to still buying physical copies
of video games is that you can resell
that game when you're done with it and
up until now digital games were
permanent you buy it and you own it for
life you cannot resell a digital game so
if the French court's ruling stands
gamers could for the first time ever
resell their digital games and even
though this just affects France other
countries might look this ruling and
attempt to emulate it in their country
and this ruling isn't going to end with
Steam the UFC has already said that they
intend to continue this fight to offer
consumers more rights to the content
they can buy regardless
the media our association intends to
enforce this decision and expand it to
other platforms that's right the UFC
plans to take this ruling and pursue
other platforms like PlayStation Xbox or
even Nintendo and this might not even
just apply to gaming according to the
ruling no platform can halt the resale
of a digital product so movies
television music literature comics or
even art this ruling could affect the
way that everyone consumes and owns
digital entertainments the ultimate
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