Rumour: Steam to implement digital trade-ins

[hideinlight]

Even something as small as this would help. Trade-ins will get you "Steam credits" which can be used for other games.

A game that's less than a week old you'll get to trade-in for 33% the value
A game that's less than a month old you get to trade in for 25%
A game that's more than a year old you get to trade in for 15%


This would benefit both steam and the customer, steam would save on some bandwith and the customer would have that extra few credits to buy a new game. It's not like retail where a second hand copy goes from person to person.

[Necuno]

few ones i would trade in for credit or something...

[HavocXphere]

Coz Valve might cut them in on a bit of it?

To make this thing fly, the trade fee would have to be substantially lower than the purchase price of the actual product else there is no point. So back to square one: Why would the publisher ruin a perfectly good sale for a minor trade fee?