Reselling game that is activated in steam.

Matthew1990

Matthew1990

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I bought BF BC2 from TheGame in UK and my question is Can I resell it??? It is activated in Steam.


P.S. It is the actual DVD. Not digital version.
 
OMG The steam fails again......cant sell a game that you bought from a store......actually f*** me.........the last steam game I ever bought.
 
I don't see what you have to be mad about. I would say that having a permanent digital copy of the game outweighs being able to resell it. Besides, some games with online play only allow their serial number to be used with one account so even physical copies are sometimes no good to resell.
 
Did you add it as a non steam game? Did you enter your CD key into steam or just locate where its installed?

If you didn't enter the CD Key (I'm not even sure if you can), you can still sell it since you didn't buy it from the Steam store.

Someone correct me if im wrong but its just like any other non steam game in that if he just pointed the shortcut to the game, that doesnt link the game in anyway to his account.
 
Matthew1990 said:
OMG The steam fails again......cant sell a game that you bought from a store......actually f*** me.........the last steam game I ever bought.
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Lol your the second person on here ive seen wanting to sell their BC2,Even after me telling loads of people how crap it is :D
 
I didnt enter the key in Steam, but I was asked to enter it in game in order to activate multiplayer. I just realized I put it into steam........as a no steam game. Would I be able to sale it then?
 
If it is not linked to your steam account (I.e. you didn't put the key into steam) you should be able to sell it.

Although BF BC2 is a EA game I believe? And may well be linked to your EA account. You might want to double check that first.

PC games are a pain to sell on these days as they all have Keys now and most you have to link to an account of some sort to activate.
 
Nevakonaza said:
Lol your the second person on here ive seen wanting to sell their BC2,Even after me telling loads of people how crap it is :D
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Thats because the game sucks :P I mean they had so much potential and they took things out from BC1 and the only cool thing about the game is the destroyable buildings. Can't chop a tree down though or take metal off a car etc.
 
It is permanently bound to your EA account, but not steam. If you only have BC2 on your EA account, just ask them for their email when you sell it, change the email on the account, put the password to something random, just keyboard bash a little, then give them the account details. they can't change the username, but will be able to have the game, and can say forgot the password, they get it sent to them, they set it to what they want because the email will go to them :)

epidemik is right, if you add it as a non-steam game, all that that is is a link to the game directory. Doing that is the same as using the icon on your desktop, it doesn't make it forever bound to your desktop of the copy of windows, it is just a different way of opening it
 
Right, 20 pounds shipped to uk, anyone????

In game you can choose to create a EA Account, so once the person get the game, she/he can just create new one, isn't that right?
 
This sort of thing drives me nuts!

:mad: For the love of God video game retailers and producers; let's stop selling virtual keys and access rights (which USED to come with the disc and box the game came in) to customers and just go back to the normal model of having customers walk into a store OR GARAGE SALE, and picking up the game of their choice, buying it, and having it for their own until the disc wears out, or they no longer want the game. Then, thanks to our lovely system of free markets and consumer-based economy, we will be able to return the fully functional copy to the store, or sell it to someone else who will enjoy it.

Does this hurt the companies who make millions of dollars every year IN PROFITS from video games? No! Actually, that's a HELL NO. I've never recalled Nintendo suffering massive profit losses and their licensed producers/developers suffering financial hardships because millions of customers bought their games and traded them with friends, or sold them in flea markets / yard sales. I'm all for profits and earning a living selling a product or service to someone, but come on! Why should we have the most basic conceptual right of personal property ownership robbed of us by the digital revolution? Just because companies can enforce a one-time usage software license key for video games that cost under $100, doesn't mean they should. CD keys have been around since the 90s, and it was so much better to just pick up a used game, pop it in, and register it. What happened?

Did most modern video games start getting so bad that those selling them had to penalize those who wanted their money back after realizing that they just dropped 20-30 bucks on a cool-looking coaster? Besides that, being tied to Steam just plain sucks. Why should I have to have a special program just to run the game I just paid for? Shouldn't it be perfectly fine to run on its own? Steam is supposed to be there to provide access to games not easily available these days, and to provide digital access to games we can buy in the store. Why, then, do we have to register our physical copy of a game with Steam and download the game from them, even if we have the data already available locally? It's a rip-off.

God, give me an Atari 2600 and a box full of games any day. Video games are supposed to be held in the hand, and the box-art, cartridge/disk, and other materials studied and enjoyed right in front of you. I really don't like the direction video games are going. It's time to look backwards in time, to when owning a video game actually meant something.
 
I have a similar problem. I bought Gothic 4 and it sucks. Yes I knew it before but I had to try it on my own :P

Why is it illegal to sell the whole steam account? Never heard it before.
 
This is getting a bit off-topic even though I totally agree with you guys... With Steam, you don't buy a game, you buy the right to play the game.

Anyways it's always about $$$
 
Actually CEX buy older games providing they dont have horrible drm :P. And they also buy new and sealed pc games. They also buy games where they have a singleplayer element if the key only locks the multiplayer.
 
mikeb2817 said:
Actually CEX buy older games providing they dont have horrible drm :P. And they also buy new and sealed pc games. They also buy games where they have a singleplayer element if the key only locks the multiplayer.
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interesting, might have to check that out. I have a lot of crappy PC games that i need to get rid of!
 
There buy in prices are crap, but what they sell for is generally good. Like starcraft 2 is 20 quid brand new and sealed. Do NOT buy offline though. They have very bad customer service and when they say a game is sealed its not guarenteed. ALways pick it up from store then if it turns out to be unuseable you can take it back.
 
mikeb2817 said:
There buy in prices are crap, but what they sell for is generally good. Like starcraft 2 is 20 quid brand new and sealed. Do NOT buy offline though. They have very bad customer service and when they say a game is sealed its not guarenteed. ALways pick it up from store then if it turns out to be unuseable you can take it back.
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still id rather get a bit of money for something thats just collecting dust, starcraft 2 will definately be the first to go! haha
 
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