French court rules Steam’s ban on reselling used games breaks European law

Re:French court rules Steam’s ban on reselling used games br... by DaiPlusPlus on Friday September 20, 2019 @04:10PM (#21030727)

It’s annoying that Steam doesn’t have transferable licenses. All of my games are spread-out over 3 different Steam accounts and I can’t consolidate them.

(I made my first account when Steam launched and added all my physical Valve games by CD-key - then years later I forgot the password (And a dead Hotmail address) and also bought the Orange Box and put it on a new account. I created a new third account for myself years ago to make a clean-break with all the dumb Steam friends I collected in high-school.)

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Re:French court rules Steam’s ban on reselling used games br... by d1zzy on Friday September 20, 2019 @04:53PM (#21031183)

Out of DRM paranoia (before I discovered GOG) I used to have a separate Steam account for each game franchise and a Google Spreadsheet to keep track of them. About 15 accounts (yes yes, I don't own that many Steam games, luckily I discovered GOG before I ended up buying too many Steam games). Would be neat if I could finally collapse them now that most of my games are on GOG (including having rebought games I had on Steam that I actually care to really own).

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Re:French court rules Steam’s ban on reselling used games br... by Fnoord on Monday September 23, 2019 @05:21AM (#21047234)

I suppose you don't maintain a friends list on those 15 accounts.

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