In favour of the person quoting you, 75% trade-in could substantially reduce the amount of investment in the ecosystem you'd make, it wouldnt be clever of MS, too chunky of a portion. It would be massively pro-consumer but harmful for their business.
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Xbox Survey: would you sell back your digital games at 10% of purchase price?
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In favour of the person quoting you, 75% trade-in could substantially reduce the amount of investment in the ecosystem you'd make, it wouldnt be clever of MS, too chunky of a portion. It would be massively pro-consumer but harmful for their business.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Honestly if this is in addition to a Steam-esque refund system, I really don't see anything fundamentally wrong with it. If you just straight up immediately regret the purchase, you get your money back, and if you just end up not playing it at some point in the far flung future you get a little back. Maybe have it start out at like 25% then go down over time.
Gamestop can resell the games they buy, Microsoft wouldn't be able to do the same with digital games. The situations aren't comparable.
Linkstrikesback
Member
Haha haha.
That's a good one Microsoft.
That's a good one Microsoft.
Yeah, that's ridiculous seeing unity and aw so low.
Keeping a game and never playing it is better than getting some money for it?
Lmao, where are you consistently getting 75% back?
I think this is also a good idea, a fixed rate of 10% for everything is bad.
Maybe a starting rate of %100 for games you just purchased
%50 for new games
%35 for recent but not new games
%20 for older games
%10 for Fifa 06
JayhawkerStL
Banned
That is exactly what the offer implies. They would be willing to sell their game for 10% off. They are not going to profit off of your decision to relinquish rights to a digital game.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Yep steam refund situation is extremely pro consumer. Every digital game service should offer it but I'm not expecting them to.
Dylan Sexbang
Banned
I'd take it. Even if it was a starting point to get a better system in place. I already get a percentage in credit through XBL Rewards, and if I have a game license I don't plan on playing anymore then I would take whatever I could get. Something is better than nothing, especially when I could put that something toward another game!
Rabbit Clock
Banned
I don't understand how anyone can be offended by this. It's not like Microsoft can resell the license they revoke. They essentially get nothing out of this.
I think you are missing the point. It's not 10% instead of nothing.
They are not giving 10% to be nice to the people who already buy digital. They are trying to convince people who are buying physical copies to switch to digital.
So it's 10% vs whatever you get from selling a physical copy.
And the responses in this thread indicate that 10% is not enough to make people switch.
You can't use this on the deals with gold titles, on DLC, publisher deals, or keep it in the wallet? You have to only use it on a $60 game?
You could trade Titanfall in for $6 or at GS for $1.25.
Aarglefarg
Member
Not 10%. Maybe if the percentage decreases with time it's owned at a reasonable pace, starting high (for example, 100% with a refunds program).
I'm not sure if it should be based on time since you purchased the game or dependent on the value of the game decreed by the store (like physical trade-ins)
How is 10% of your PURCHASE price bad? It'll give the game a fixed value, that you could possibly get back a year or 2 after the product is irrelevant (though I'm sure there'd be a cutoff date.) One of the worse things about Physical trades is the huge depreciation on some titles. I like the idea that early-adopters never end up getting less, this way.
And if they open the door to this, I'm sure there's be promos. "Sell back Fallout 8 for Fallout 9, get 20% off!" and such. Heck, they'd probably even do 100% "Trade Ins" as a deal on occasion. It'd also be unique to Xbox for a time, and would encourage the competition to try offer their own variations (such as how PS+ was adapted by Xbox GWG).
I'm not a person who trades in games, but there's been a few times where I've got a digital game because a friend wanted to play together, and when they show no interest anymore, I might as well get rid of it. If getting a few dollars towards something I like more could come from that, why not?
And if they open the door to this, I'm sure there's be promos. "Sell back Fallout 8 for Fallout 9, get 20% off!" and such. Heck, they'd probably even do 100% "Trade Ins" as a deal on occasion. It'd also be unique to Xbox for a time, and would encourage the competition to try offer their own variations (such as how PS+ was adapted by Xbox GWG).
I'm not a person who trades in games, but there's been a few times where I've got a digital game because a friend wanted to play together, and when they show no interest anymore, I might as well get rid of it. If getting a few dollars towards something I like more could come from that, why not?
I really don't understand the offense at a non-intrusive option.
Dylan Sexbang
Banned
10% is better than nothing at all! Especially for users, aka me, who already buy digital and already get a percentage back through XBL Rewards! I would take it over nothing at all- Microsoft is only losing money on a digital return. And I'll take what I can get.
Salty Hippo
Member
Underrated post.
I'm astonished at some people here thinking they're entitled to an everlasting 50% discount. Buy game for 60, "sell" something that has no value to anyone for 30 after said game has dropped down to 20 at retail. Makes sense.
Permanently A
Junior Member
10%.... $6 for a $60 title? Nah
Well yeah -- because you know... It's better than having absolutely nothing. Wow.
Trogdor1123
Gold Member
Purchase price? Probably. You could sell games back for more than they go on sale for sometimes
10% is pretty poor but currently it's 0% so I guess sure, I would.
Xbox region prices make digital awesome value. I pretty much buy 95% of all my Xbox games digitally now. And more often than not the price and digital benefits mean I buy multiplatforms on Xbox too. Who would have guessed... Well priced digital games makes you buy more games on that platform. Maybe one day they'll catch on.
Xbox region prices make digital awesome value. I pretty much buy 95% of all my Xbox games digitally now. And more often than not the price and digital benefits mean I buy multiplatforms on Xbox too. Who would have guessed... Well priced digital games makes you buy more games on that platform. Maybe one day they'll catch on.
friskykillface
Banned
ouch at that 10% 0_o
hell no lol, I'll take $30 for 1-2 months if its a single player game
hell no lol, I'll take $30 for 1-2 months if its a single player game
I'm OK with Microsoft paying me to clear out my Ready to Install list
aka launch titles
Zombie James
Banned
My issue is that, in Microsoft's eyes, as soon as a game leaves their servers it loses 90% of its value. It's bullshit. If they value digital games so lowly, stop charging retail prices. That would be a start.
You still have that but the additional option to sell it back. So how does losing an option sound better to you?
You can keep your game boxed too. 0$s.
Why do people HATE options? It's so baffling to me.
People keep saying sell digital cheaper. But if I recall, aren't big retailers one of the biggest forces keeping that from happening rather than just Microsoft saying no?
Money where I get to expel a game i'd never play or want to keep sounds much better to me and if it's digital-only what then?
I HATE being taken for a ride. MS is trying to get away with murder, again. Methodically speaking, in case you want to whine about my choice of words..
What you decide here sets precedents for things in the future. That's why they offer you such shit price.
BabyFaceKillah
Member
10% is lol worthy but it's better than nothing...
Why not go 15% or 20%
Why not go 15% or 20%
Theyre getting away with murder by giving you an additional option as a consumer?
The point is to ditch the physical retailers and go digital-only in the future. They are trying to figure out what would be an acceptable digital equivalent of the advantages of physical releases.
RowdyReverb
Member
I've got some digital junk I'm never going to reinstall. $6 would be ok tbh. Of course I'd rather have more, but it's not like they can resell my used digital copy
But you're ok with the ride of being stuck with your digital game for forever because what? It's familiar?
Are you implying this is the step to all digital (not the increasing about of people buying digitally with no way to trade titles in) or that they'll eventually force you to sell your titles?
They're currently offering you 0 which is an even worse price.
The system they originally proposed kept the used game market more like it is than this
You have the same 'right' to your game taken away if you traded it in for cash physically the same way, this isn't some ill 2013 omen.
You bought a game, you can send it back for a lesser price, just like physical copies.
This is how retail works.