Can you imagine a day when your console's downloaded digital content can be resold? GameStop is dreaming of that day.
Of course that day won't come easily, in an interview with Ars Technica, during the third annual GameStop Expo, Gamestop's Executive Vice President Mike Hogan opened up on the difficulty of licensing for selling/trading used DLC. Hogan explained, "When a game is digitally purchased, the license for that game is associated with the user that purchased it. There is currently no means for that user to relinquish the license and sell or give it to another user or intermediary."
While the ability to re-license DLC doesn't exist yet, but GameStop maintains hope:
"It would require a partnership between retailers and publishers, but absolutely, it could go that way," Hogan said. "We’re absolutely interested in pursuing that. There are lots of examples where people have taken digital content and made it transferable from one consumer to another. Think of World of Warcraft [and its third-party item sales]. There’s no fundamental or technological reason why that couldn’t happen [on other platforms]. If the consumer wants it, and it provides value, then we believe it will happen over time. The consumer will speak for that."
The hope has been placed in us, the gamers, to want to trade or sell in our DLC and to want to buy used DLC.
If DLC could be bought, played and traded in along with the main game – that would be a phenomenal day, as of now GameStop has "nothing to share on the potential of trading and reselling DLC."
Where are you sitting on this? Do you want to sell your DLC or keep it? Let me know
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