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Steam Pulls a Fast One: Trade in Console Games for Extra PC Gaming Credit

It may be a trap, but that's some sweet sweet bait.

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Blacktric4314d ago (Edited 4314d ago )

Jesus, this is brilliant. Eventhough you won't be able to trade back the game you bought with those credits, it is still an amazing deal. Especially if you consider that there is a massive sale going on right now.

Kurylo3d4314d ago

At least ud be supporting the developers.

ATi_Elite4314d ago (Edited 4314d ago )

1. Brilliant, pure Genius from those Gaming Gods over at Valve.

2. You buy PC Games for life and trading them in is not possible and if it were possible would be STUPID!

Free DLC and Mods breath new life into old PC Games. Perfect example: The DayZ mod has Arma II back on my SSD and being played Daily and Arma II is 3 years old!

Half Life 2 alone has about 50 different Good mods worth playing.

3. This will help more consolers get into the wonderful world of PC Gaming and it's the Sumer Steam sale meaning games are "Bottom of a casket dirt cheap".

4. 30% more credit!!!!!......I'm going next door and gonna grab some old games from my neighbors kids and get me some Steam Bucks to have handy for the onslaught of Christmas titles.

(They are spoiled brats and won't miss them)

nukeitall4314d ago

I think in Europe, it is new the law to allow you to resell digital items, but don't quote me on it!

starchild4314d ago

Yeah, I think it is a great deal. I mainly use the consoles for their exclusives and when I'm done with them I can trade them in for games I want more on the PC. Steam is awesome.

Totoro174313d ago

L4D and L4D2 are so incredibly sweet on the PC, not to mention the HUGE amount of fan made DLC that blows some of the stuff that Valve has brought out out the water. I would like L4D3, but honestly, I'm so happy with the modded servers and extra maps.

JoySticksFTW4313d ago (Edited 4313d ago )

@ ATi_Elite's "I'm going next door and gonna grab some old games from my neighbors kids...They are spoiled brats and won't miss them"

Looting and treachery?

We have a bandit in our midst.

DayZ player confirmed! ;)

Huarle4313d ago

@nukeitall:
It is allowed, yes. But companies like Valve, which bind games to your account, aren't forced to offer you an option to be able to sell your digital games again.

ClimateKaren4313d ago

" Brilliant, pure Genius from those Gaming Gods over at Valve"

God that sentence made me puke in my mouth a little. I've never seen such a naked display of game-platform leg-humping in my life aside from active and aggressive trolls. Congratulations, it's been a while since anything on the internet has effectively revolted me.

Old McGroin4313d ago

@ nukeitall and Huarle

I live in the EU (Ireland), how would I go about selling digital games online? Have websites been set up? Cheers.

Only just getting in to PC gaming, have a good enough laptop with a HDMI cable connection and wireless mouse & keyboard so I can play on my HD tv. Bought Star Wars Battlefront 2 from Steam the other day and downloaded Lord Of The Rings Online to get myself started. This Gamestop deal looks pretty good and would help ease PC gaming noobs like myself in.

Saw a couple of posts somewhere (not here) asking if Gamestop is in Europe; it is indeed, I know of about 4 Gamestop stores around Cork city where I'm from so if they're in Ireland they're surely around the EU.

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FanboyPunisher4314d ago

30% trade in credit?

GS is still fucking you.
TERRIBLE deal, better off keeping them or selling via ebay/kijiji.

Blacktric4314d ago (Edited 4314d ago )

+30% extra credit if you cash in that credit on Steam. Like if you trade in 100 dollars worth of games total and get the credit for 100 dollars and use it to buy Steam credits, you will get 130 dollars added to your Steam account instead of 100.

dcbronco4314d ago

Blacktric $100 in trade-in value at gamestop is 6 games that came out in the last two weeks. Amazon will give you $10 or more more than gamestop per title. Sometimes more. I traded in a game at Amazon earlier this year for $38 that gamestop was only offering $22 for. I'll continue to stay away from GS. And I'm sure valve will be offering this there soon.

SPAM-FRITTER-1234314d ago (Edited 4314d ago )

this is an amazing idea. Steam is by far the best service for gaming and this just puts the icing on the cake.

hope it comes to the UK so i can trade in those old PS3 games i never got round to giving to a charity shop ;D

ChrisW4314d ago (Edited 4314d ago )

Awesome idea... regardless of the inability to trade back.

Besides, when are you going to find awesome games like Skyrim for 75% off (Steam's Flash Summer Sale (already expired)) on consoles?!? In fact, currently almost all major titles are between 25% and 75% off on Steam.

And they have Christmas sales that are equally awesome!

kevnb4314d ago

i hate the massive amounts of traded in games, they dont degrade like cars or other items.

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Irishguy954314d ago

We always get ****ed over is why. Specially by Sony

mushroomwig4314d ago

'Specially' is not a word.

GamerSciz4314d ago

@mushroom...

Yes it is...it's just not being used in the right context. He should have used "Especially". #grammarnazi
http://www.merriam-webster....

Old McGroin4313d ago

@ mushroom

There's always room for a little artistic licence on N4G!

hazelamy4313d ago

steam don't have store cards out in europe yet as far as i know.

MagicAccent4314d ago

Wtf, I would trade in my PS3 copy of skyrim in an instant.

Why this noo in swwdeeen?! I mad!

Moncole4314d ago (Edited 4314d ago )

This is good of Steam. I was able to buy 15 games for 50$ during the summer sale.If you spend 50$ to spend on consoles games the most you will be able to get is about 5 and those would be 10$ digital games.

f7897904313d ago

That happened to me to. I only planned to spend a few bucks and spent $50-60.

***This is what a Steam sale really is***
http://meta.filesmelt.com/d...

Moncole4313d ago

I got 17 games in the end and saved 150$.

Saryk4314d ago (Edited 4314d ago )

I'm doing this today! My son's shit is gone! MUHAHAHAHAH!

ATi_Elite4314d ago

LMAO!

Messed up, but funny!

StayStatic4314d ago (Edited 4314d ago )

LMAO I struggled to to click the +1 funny button because I was laughing to much =D

DarkBlood4314d ago

somebody is going to be pissed

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein13d ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii13d ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo13d ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows9013d ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel198912d ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

Nooderus12d ago

"X" type of gamer conversations are cringe

qalpha13d ago

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Inverno13d ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan13d ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno13d ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life198113d ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn66912d ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

Gaming4Life198112d ago

I feel you and i have never walked out on a bad movie cause I payed my money. I also don't refund games cause I'm a gamer and I know what to buy lol. I think having a digital refund is great.

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