I thought of a neat idea:

What if you could sell your titles that you don't want anymore on GOG?

You mark it that you want to sell it. It sells for 50% of the original value. ($9.99 goes for $4.99)

You get to keep 50% of that -- $2.49 of GOG credit that would then go to your GOG account for future purchases.

In doing so, I think a neat win-win-win happens.

Win for Seller: They can unload games that they don't want anymore and get a bit of money for them.

Win for the Buyer: If they see a title that they want for cheap, they can buy the cheap one.

Win for GOG: The sellback would trigger more sales from the seller b/c they have some money to spend. And more purchases from buyers looking for the occasional bargain bin prices. And the same title could generate recurring purchases.


Of course, this probably couldn't happen b/c of deals with the publishers. And it still might be a risky practice -- GOG is cheap enough already. Still yet, I think it would be pretty neat.

OK, someone buys a game from me for 5$, and wants to sell it after some time. What would be the price? 2,5$?

PS. Actually, you can't sell games purchased on gog, since they are DRM free. Maybe it could work on Steam, but not on GOG.

Actually, the idea is pretty flawed. Let's say that ten people want to buy the same game. Five buy the game full price, five buy the game half price. Gog has to cover the download costs for all ten. They don't really win, do they? And expecting that people, while having more money to spend on games, will not necessarily buy games, and especially not from gog, since it has competition.

As for buy back value of some DRM games, who buys it back? The original seller, like with Green man gaming. Please don't let Steam get any ideas, OK? As for selling games bought on Steam to other users, instead of the seller, see paragraph above, but change some names accordingly.

Green man gaming has a trading option. Because of this the service is DRMed up to the eyeballs. It's the only way it could work.

The idea stemmed out of the books that you could trade on the BookNook. And they have the books DRMed up -- which is really nothing horrible IMO when you're talking about books. It doesn't get in the way. But with games, the DRM just tends to make the whole gaming experience suck.

It would be neat to trade the games. But it just doesn't seem to be able to work when the games are already dirt cheap, DRM free and digital.

And that right there is all that can be said on the matter.

Since the games are DRM free, what is to keep someone from buying the game, backing up the game file and then selling it back?

Nothing at all. That's why it wouldn't work and will never come to pass with GOG. Besides considering how cheap the game is why bother selling them back anyways. :D

Aye, just pointing out the obvious question really, since the OP didn't seem to have considered that.

And I don't think I have ever sold a game actually. I'm a bit of a collector.