Yes I’m sure there are dozens and dozens of users looking to give their msdos games to their 50 year old kids. For the rest of the folks, most don’t even finish the game. Fewer replay the games beyond a ng+. The vast majority buy the game in the first few weeks, and demand drops over a 5 year period.
If ownership that’s important to you, then by all means purchase it. But that’s not the feature most people care about.
In my opinion, if valve and publishers respected first sale doctrine you’d see large game libraries shrink quite a bit. Most people would rather play and pay for the remake 15 years later. I think sales numbers, steam achievements, peak online stream numbers pretty clearly mirror my opinion.
Yes I’m sure there are dozens and dozens of users looking to give their msdos games to their 50 year old kids. For the rest of the folks, most don’t even finish the game. Fewer replay the games beyond a ng+. The vast majority buy the game in the first few weeks, and demand drops over a 5 year period.
If ownership that’s important to you, then by all means purchase it. But that’s not the feature most people care about.
In my opinion, if valve and publishers respected first sale doctrine you’d see large game libraries shrink quite a bit. Most people would rather play and pay for the remake 15 years later. I think sales numbers, steam achievements, peak online stream numbers pretty clearly mirror my opinion.