Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say indies

Re:Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say ... by eridius on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @04:10PM (#20405998)

It's not supposed to be a bad decision. Bundle economics actually work¹ in the absence of key reselling. Bundle keys are not allowed to be resold by the terms of any bundle I've ever looked at, so it hardly seems fair to blame the developers when the users are the ones breaking the ToS, and marketplaces like G2A are actively soliciting this behavior.

¹For the most part. It's not always good for 100% of the people involved, but on the balance it's supposed to be a good deal for everyone.

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Re:Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say ... by buildzr on Thursday July 11, 2019 @09:33AM (#20411373)

So basically, bundle economics work if you ignore the existence of the market for those games.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

You would never cut a software developer slack for putting "no reverse engineering, no exploitation" in the ToS and then being surprised when vulnerabilities are discovered, business people need to consider basic stuff like this too. Markets for things exist outside of yours.

Additionally, I never even agreed to a ToS buying the early Humble Bundles at least and a hidden ToS is unenforceable at best.

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