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Steam in Hot Water in the EU?

[Feb 01, 2013, 9:46 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

A This recent article follows on news from last year of a possible legal battle over the inability to resell games bought via Steam, which conflicts with a recent EU legal ruling. Word is the VZBV has filed a complaint in a Berlin district court over this. GameSpot has a response from Valve to this, as the company says it has not received a formal notice about his. "We are aware of the press release about the lawsuit filed by the VZBV, but we have not yet seen the actual complaint," Valve said. "That said, we understand the complaint is somehow regarding the transferability of Steam accounts, despite the fact that this issue has already been ruled upon favorably to Valve in a prior case between Valve and the VZBV by the German supreme court. For now, we are continuing to extend the Steam services to gamers in Germany and around the world."

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32. Re: Steam in Hot Water in the EU? Feb 2, 2013, 12:19 qsto
 
deqer wrote on Feb 1, 2013, 22:05:
TheEmissary wrote on Feb 1, 2013, 21:00:

That is great and all for older titles and console games but not so much for modern PC games. Most games lately are tied in to storefront/drm/middleware like steam.
So? So what? Your point?
Just don't play them then. What? Is this some type of crack that we can't live without? So, are you saying that once micro-transactions hit games, that we should play those games too because that's what's modern and we have no other choice?

Each time you play modern games, you are supporting a bad business model; you are being taken advantage of by the companies; and yet you don't think twice about it. You just eat it up?

Godddd, humans are dumb.
How about if I just like video games? It's a hobby of mine. Albeit only one of the many, yet certainly the dearest hobbby I have. Been playing since I was 2. I'm 32 now. How is it exactly that I'm being taken advantage of? I only see Steam as an advantage, not an impediment in any way for me to enjoy the games I love to play.

Btw, if this suit actually holds water and this case becomes a precedent, how is it going to bode down to the fact that we all know the next generation consoles will most likely feature a some form of a DRM system that more or less makes reselling of video games a thing in the past? 		 
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  1. Feb 1, 20:53 Re: Steam in Hot Water in the EU? Closed Betas
  2. Feb 1, 21:00  Re: Steam in Hot Water in the EU? TheEmissary
  4. Feb 1, 22:05   Re: Steam in Hot Water in the EU? deqer
  8. Feb 1, 22:26    Re: Steam in Hot Water in the EU? TheEmissary
  9. Feb 1, 22:27    Re: Steam in Hot Water in the EU? Dagnamit
  10. Feb 1, 23:00     Re: Steam in Hot Water in the EU? Kosumo
>> 32. Feb 2, 12:19    Re: Steam in Hot Water in the EU? qsto
  3. Feb 1, 21:50  Re: Steam in Hot Water in the EU? Dev
  5. Feb 1, 22:07   Re: Steam in Hot Water in the EU? Mashiki Amiketo
  7. Feb 1, 22:17    Re: Steam in Hot Water in the EU? Dev
  12. Feb 1, 23:57     Re: Steam in Hot Water in the EU? Mashiki Amiketo
  13. Feb 2, 00:25      Re: Steam in Hot Water in the EU? Dev
  20. Feb 2, 03:47       Re: Steam in Hot Water in the EU? eRe4s3r
  22. Feb 2, 05:54       Re: Steam in Hot Water in the EU? Mashiki Amiketo
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