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Posted: 28th Feb 2010 04:43

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Well I bought L4D2 for PC and installed through Steam and looking at my profile now I've had it for quite a while and have only played it for two hours. I paid full price for it, and I'd like to sell it, maybe off eBay. I've seen second hand copies of Hlaf-Life 2 and such for PC, but how do I go about doing this? Because it's Steam, if I sell it to someone they'll have to log in, won't they?

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Posted: 28th Feb 2010 04:57

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Because the game is linked to your account you can't sell it on, and I don't think anyone would buy it.

Even if you had good intentions to give them your log in details to the steam account linked to your copy of L4D2, who would trust you to do so?

And I'm not sure if steam would be so willing to allow you to pass on your details to somebody new, as they would not get any money from the transaction.

In terms of second hand copies of HL2, if you saw them in the store, it was probably passed on to some store clerk who doesn't have the first ideas how PC games work.
If you saw it online, it could be a scam (Which relates to my first point).

Unfortunately its the way with most PC games.

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Posted: 28th Feb 2010 05:21

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Quote: "Even if you had good intentions to give them your log in details to the steam account linked to your copy of L4D2, who would trust you to do so?"

Yeah well I'm obviously not gonna go around giving people my username and password for money.

What I don't get is why Steam doesn't have a system where you can simply remove all ties of the serial key from your account. It would make things much simpler, and if they didn't like that then they could simply make it that once you remove the key, then you can't play the game again on that account.

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Posted: 28th Feb 2010 08:20

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Quote: "What I don't get is why Steam doesn't have a system where you can simply remove all ties of the serial key from your account. It would make things much simpler, and if they didn't like that then they could simply make it that once you remove the key, then you can't play the game again on that account."

This is one of the sole reasons Steam exists. Publishers love it because there's no easy way to sell games. Someone would have to create a new Steam account for every game they purchase in order to sell it. Valve pioneered an ingenious way to curb second-hand sales, so of course they won't make it easy for you to do so. All publishers hate second-hand sales