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Steam very successfully destroyed the resale and lending of PC games and the same approach with digital rights management of downloads will do the same to the consoles.
Dude cdkeys were already a thing before steam. There wasn't really ever a secondhand pc game market.
Of course there was. It was very much alive on our schoolyard. (A "market" doesn't need a man in the middle siphoning off a profit for it to exist.)
You could write down CD keys and put them in the case, you know?
That didn't work. If you tried to play online with a CD key that someone else had already used, it wouldn't let you.
It worked with some games! I remember passing around CS1.5 and UT CD keys at LAN parties.
That was a small minority of games. There were video games before everybody had the internet. But even later, not every game is or was an online game. Actually most weren't, because plans were expensive and connection quality was horseshit. Also, games used to support player run dedicated servers where no such checks existed. Hell, you didn't even have to use the game's own server browsers in many cases, there were 3rd party solutions for that.
There were actually a lot of online games back in the day since lan was pretty common, but your point is mostly valid. Unless the game had online features the cdkey could be reused.
Used games held the console market in balance. You knew if you didn't like a game, you could trade it and get something back, or at least buy a cheap used copy if you weren't sure on a title.
The PC game market is kept in balance by constant discounting and availability. You manage risk by saying "I'll wait a few years and get it for $4.98 instead."
The presence of secomdary sellers (Fanatical, Humble Bundle etc) and even distinct markets (GoG, itch, service games that sell through their own accounts) means Steam still doesn't have the same market-defining power Sony will in a post-disc world.
single-use codes and 'activation' were around and gaining traction before steam came about. but steam did help dig the hole and put the some of the nails in the coffin.
I'm not convinced it wasn't mostly dead before Steam, TBH. I mean I guess there was "lending" (read: copying), but there was never a "GameStop for PC games" the way there was for console games. And even the "lending" was somewhat curtailed by CD-keys and account registration before Steam existed.
Not 100%, you can share your (almost) whole digital Steam game library via family share. There are very few games that block this feature.
What?!
You think before Steam people could resell and loan PC games like console?!
Why just make shit up? You know Steam ain't that old and people remember pre-Steam...
Right?
I think steam might be older than BrightCandle@lemmy.world...
You forgot the leading
@and your username mention turned into a mailto link.G*mers made their bed. And are now complaining that it smells like their shit.