Why did game stop and electronic boutique stop purchasing used PC games?
Ease of piracy on the PC side, mostly, and liability. Games are returned for all sorts of reasons, often “it won’t run on my machine”, and those end up in the used aisle, when it fact it was copied and cracked and keycode stolen. Next person bought it can’t play because keycode was already registered. With prevalence of keycodes on games there’s simply no point in selling used copies unless there’s a simple and foolproof mechanism to transfer keycodes from one owner to another, and that ain’t gonna happen until all the game makers united and use common standard/mechanism. PC games are also easily copied with that’s on the machine. At least with a console, it doesn’t come with (or you can’t download stuff to it) that allows it to copy games. Console games are copied ON a PC.
