Mikey Jr.
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I'd rather just keep the game at that point.
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Xbox Survey: would you sell back your digital games at 10% of purchase price?
- Thread starter MauroNL
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I'd rather just keep the game at that point.
They are asking a question in a survey. It doesn't mean they are going to do it.
FunnyPirate
Neo Member
10%? Are they serious?
It's probably more like they get better margins from digital sales, so they want people to go digital and this sweetens the pot a little bit. 10% isn't much, but it's not like they can resell the game. They just want you to put it forward towards a new game/DLC to make their money back.
They pay you to deactivate your game license, so you put that cash towards a new license for something else.
My sandwich for lunch cost more than 10% of a full priced game lol
10% is low, but it's better than nothing, which is what you currently get for used digital games on all platforms.
That said, if I had to make a guess, the only reason Microsoft is even considering this is that they haven't given up on their all-digital console dream.
They're looking for the price at which people will except an all-digital, no-used-games Microsoft future, since the ability to sell used games is what people fought for the last time Microsoft failed with this push.
My guess for the way Microsoft wants this to go? They figure out a price for digital "resale" they think most of their audience will accept. They implement this price for all digital games you buy on Xbox.
Then at some point during one of their ".5" Xbox cycles, once they have introduced their yearly new models or whatever, they introduce an (optional) Xbox model that is all digital games, at a cheaper price. You save money on buying the box, but don't worry about the fact that it's all digital, because you can still "sell your used games" back to them. Hopefully, in Microsoft's eyes at least, this goes over fairly well, and two or three product cycles down the road, suddenly all the Xbox models are digital only.
Absolutely, 100% what is going on.
That said, if I had to make a guess, the only reason Microsoft is even considering this is that they haven't given up on their all-digital console dream.
They're looking for the price at which people will except an all-digital, no-used-games Microsoft future, since the ability to sell used games is what people fought for the last time Microsoft failed with this push.
My guess for the way Microsoft wants this to go? They figure out a price for digital "resale" they think most of their audience will accept. They implement this price for all digital games you buy on Xbox.
Then at some point during one of their ".5" Xbox cycles, once they have introduced their yearly new models or whatever, they introduce an (optional) Xbox model that is all digital games, at a cheaper price. You save money on buying the box, but don't worry about the fact that it's all digital, because you can still "sell your used games" back to them. Hopefully, in Microsoft's eyes at least, this goes over fairly well, and two or three product cycles down the road, suddenly all the Xbox models are digital only.
Absolutely, 100% what is going on.
People that buy Digital currently get nothing for the games they've finished with but snob 10% cash back? I can understand it's pretty low, but if you have 20 games that you've bought digitally this gen and no longer play then that could be up to $120 back.
I'm not defending it, I'm against digital as it is and have only bought one retail game digitally on consoles since it started and that was GTAV on PS3.
I'm not defending it, I'm against digital as it is and have only bought one retail game digitally on consoles since it started and that was GTAV on PS3.
User 479360
Banned
Is this a joke? 10%? Seriously?
NO.
NO.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Why do people think 10% is so outrageously low? It's not like a physical copy where you can put it on the shelf and eventually resell it.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
What the hell 10% lol thats messed up. Well at least they're trying..sort of
Bits N Pieces
Member
Microsoft be fishing and if 39% of respondents say yes they'll probably implement it.
If you get the survey, for gods sake say no. 10% is a joke lol
If you get the survey, for gods sake say no. 10% is a joke lol
It almost doesn't matter. At this point they have primed the conversation around the 10% price point. Then, when they come back with something slightly higher, people will be like "oh, alright."
This is already happening for some posters in this thread, who have already stated they would be willing at 20-30%. If MS came straight out and said 30, people might have pointed out how low a number that is, since "you don't even get half". Now, 30% looks like a luxuriously high price point compared to the 10% they were originally thinking of, and Microsoft gets to look like they're being the good guy by giving you "so much" for your digital games.
half a moon
Banned
What's the point? They give you $6 to never play a game again? What?
There'd have to be a reselling marketplace with higher prices.
There'd have to be a reselling marketplace with higher prices.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I buy games for less than 10% of their MSRP pretty routinely, so this would be profitable for me if it was allowed on all platforms.
RedAssedApe
Banned
lol 10%....makes gamestop tiv look good
michaelius
Banned
I'd rather sell disc based game for 70-80% of value or 50 if I kept it for months.
But you'd only get back 10% of that 10% (it's applied to the purchase price, not MSRP).
ClosingADoor
Member
For very old games, maybe.
Would be more interesting if they would allow used sales to other people directly through a online marketplace. Have people bid on the game and see how they value it. Publisher takes a cut to make it interesting for them.
Would be more interesting if they would allow used sales to other people directly through a online marketplace. Have people bid on the game and see how they value it. Publisher takes a cut to make it interesting for them.
BananasWithGuns
Member
They already do this with the Rewards program.
(I only have one star because I buy physical copies when able.)
Its in-store credit.
Saint of Killers
Member
There's evidence of that in this very thread.
Gnome Scat
Member
Should be at least 25% with full reimbursement within the first 72 hours.
Looked up some Gamestop trade values of bigger games of Holiday 2014 (so about 18 months old)
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfighter: $3.00
Assassin's Creed Unity: $3.00
Far Cry 4: $12.00
Titanfall: $1.50
Middle Earth: Shadows over Mordor: $5
South Park: The Stick of Truth $3
Madden NFL 15: $2
It actually makes the 10% off the original price ($6) look like a good deal as long as you wait a year, lol
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfighter: $3.00
Assassin's Creed Unity: $3.00
Far Cry 4: $12.00
Titanfall: $1.50
Middle Earth: Shadows over Mordor: $5
South Park: The Stick of Truth $3
Madden NFL 15: $2
It actually makes the 10% off the original price ($6) look like a good deal as long as you wait a year, lol
AmuroChan
Member
I think it' safe to assume that there will be plenty of restrictions. Another loophole is if you bought a game and then it's later offered as a GwG game. Every person who bought the game digitally would sell it back. That would literally cost MS millions of dollars.
They probably can easily get those 10% back due to Microsoft having higher margins on digital store sales than on retail.
They're not losing money because whatever you get back you still have to spend it with them.
Still...that's far too low for money they aren't going to lose.
Does that exist outside of North America?
Dragon Puncher
Member
Better than nothing I guess, but that's pretty much just an insult at that point.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
50 percent or bust.