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thepotatoman
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All i know for sure is there is no gamer utopia to be found here. Game companies aren't exactly wallowing in profits, so if their revenue went down in any way, budgets or business models would adjust in drastic ways. You paying less money for the same content isn't likely going to increase revenue (unless the industry had the demand curves completely wrong all of these years). Luckily this won't probably effect anything at all.
In the order of likelihood:
1. (likely) Valve and the like rewords its contract or already has wording in the contract to make the ruling not applicable and absolutely nothing changes.
2. (possibly) Valve and the like is no longer allowed to ban people that sell their passwords on the internet, and the few people that are willing to jump between 20 different accounts to save money can do so, but overall the effects are insignificant as most people would find doing such business risky and a hassle.
3. (unlikely) The courts force Valve and the like to make the selling of individual games within one's account available to everyone, and all digital distribution shuts down as developers switch back to physical media where there is at least some damage worry, location scarcity, and shipping time & cost to worry about when it comes to used games. Steam moves to small indie developers and maybe free to play only.
4. (would never happen because of option 3) The whole industry somehow moves to digital distribution despite the ruling, and put an emphasis on all games to be designed around a treadmill, and the only two types of games that exist is free 2 play to peice meal your account, and subscription based games. It would be hard to move single player content over to those models, so many single player games will no longer be made.
In the order of likelihood:
1. (likely) Valve and the like rewords its contract or already has wording in the contract to make the ruling not applicable and absolutely nothing changes.
2. (possibly) Valve and the like is no longer allowed to ban people that sell their passwords on the internet, and the few people that are willing to jump between 20 different accounts to save money can do so, but overall the effects are insignificant as most people would find doing such business risky and a hassle.
3. (unlikely) The courts force Valve and the like to make the selling of individual games within one's account available to everyone, and all digital distribution shuts down as developers switch back to physical media where there is at least some damage worry, location scarcity, and shipping time & cost to worry about when it comes to used games. Steam moves to small indie developers and maybe free to play only.
4. (would never happen because of option 3) The whole industry somehow moves to digital distribution despite the ruling, and put an emphasis on all games to be designed around a treadmill, and the only two types of games that exist is free 2 play to peice meal your account, and subscription based games. It would be hard to move single player content over to those models, so many single player games will no longer be made.