AMD’s Blockchain Game Store Lets Players Sell Their Digital Games

Robot Cache, a new digital retailer for games founded by developer and inXile Entertainment CEO Brian Fargo, offers customers the ability to buy and sell games from its digital library using cryptocurrency or cash.
The newcomer to the digital storefront space uses blockchain technology to track games being bought and sold on the platform, kicking back a cut of the money to not only the most recent owner of said game, but also to developers.

[Hofstaderman]

So they get a cut? On top of already having the game sold once already?

Eff off.

[darksky]

I reckon players would welcome the ability to sell the games they never play or have completed. When everything goes digital it is a welcome feature that would allow gamers to recoup some of the cost to put towards a new game.

[blackblades]

That would be nice to an extent, I have digital games in my backlog that I never touched its been 10 years. Some games I regret buying on the early days of digital like Detune and genshift. Sounds nice but still dont like it, it basically a renting service.

[VincentVanBro]

@blackblades no it basically isn’t lol are you reading what anyone is saying? Part of ownership is the right to sell what you own if you so desire. How could anyone be against a right that simply empowers consumers? Lmao

[KwietStorm_BLM]

@blackblades
How the hell can you corelate that to a rental service? You're not obligated to give back the games you *bought*... If you don't want to sell it, don't. It's not theirs to reclaim from you. That's such a weird comparison.

[Servbot41]

Every single physical retailer that deals with used games has gotten "a cut" since the dawn of video games. Should they eff off as well?

[Sephiroushin]

if you go a retailer and you sell your game you get a cut the retailer get a cut not the developer ... in this case the dev get 70% and you get only 25% the retailer /store in this case 5%... if you go sell your house do you have to pay 70% to the builder and get only 25% ? it's a stupid analogy and i am up for the devs to get a cut but no way 70%

[Servbot41]

AMD isn't a game developer, your analogy makes no sense. If you don't like the prices AMD is giving you for your digital games, wait for another digital storefront to offer competitive prices.

[Sephiroushin]

It says developers i will copy it
"YOUR MONEY MATTERS MORE TO DEVELOPERS WHEN YOU BUY AND SELL
Every vote with your dollar matters more on Robot Cache. We give 95% back to the developers and take only 5%. Not the ‘industry standard’ of 30%. When you sell your used copy, we give 70% back to the developers, 25% back to you"

Dunno if they are referring to the developers as of the blockchain then it would not make sense or the developers of the games which sound more about the developers of the games and if so my analogy in that case do makes sense, if you buy a idk a Ford and tell someone to sell it and then the developer (Ford) takes 70% you 25% and the seller 5% do that makes sense?
You're technically the owner so naturally the bigger cut should be yours, although where the industry is headed ain't a good place, broken games that are always online, full of microtransactions ...

Nothing to worry about it though, I don't buy something i don't want just to sell it unless its a real important asset like their stock for example, 6$ to 120$ what a ride... But if it is going to work like this, a gamestop 2.0; and on a blockchain which most people do not like then its a DOA storefront, well not DOA but wont take a chunk of the market... I can get their gpu or cpu but I would not give them my digital games for them to sell it sounds as assassin or even more than gamestop lol... Yea probably Valve or Epic later on will cut them real bad as well, but again, game I buy game that stay on my library.

[EvertonFC]

This is a good thing, you've automatically read Blockchain and had a fanny attack

[closed_account]

Actually the best use of Blockchain I've seen. Because each copy can be tracked, this allows the possibility of resale.

We've been conditioned to have kneejerk disgust whenever we see the word Blockchain, but this is pretty cool. It doesn't mean I like the other 95% of Blockchain that sucks.

[1Victor]

Sound like GameStop 2.0 🤦🏿
But it’s a good thing that now people will be able to sale digital games they finished or don’t want I just hope they don’t do a GameStop and sale the used for $5 bellow the new game price 😡

[porkChop]

I don't mind giving the dev a cut but 70%? Wtf is that? If I bought the game and I'm reselling it why should the devs get 70% while I only get 25%?

[closed_account]

Yea same how I feel. As cool as it is to track used games via blockchain, the cut that AMD takes is horrendous!

[Christopher]

I mean, it's better than nothing, and it's not like ebay and similar sites also don't take their cut for providing the storefront.

There are definitely areas that could use improvement, but it's a start to something that could improve with competition.

[Sephiroushin]

No sites like ebay, g2a, kinguin, eneba, amazon, and so on takes 75% of your sale and give you 25%, they usually do not take more than 30%, this is so rigged, if you look at the long picture this is to make developers bite since their cut will always be 70% which is basically the same they will get on a sale from playstation, ios, xbox (i think it decreased but still), nintendo, steam etc ... a game a gamer sell is basically a normal sale for them, and no, its not AMD who takes the 70%, the robot cache website here: " https://partner.robotcache.... " mention partner and a partner there is a publisher ie thq nordic, capcom etc

[Christopher]

@Sphiroushin "There are definitely areas that could use improvement, but it's a start to something that could improve with competition."

[Sephiroushin]

I know you said that, but every single thing on existence has areas where it can be improved, i was trying to say its not a good start, its actually quite a bad start and a bad look for the all digital era, like always though, corporate thinking about partner corporates instead of having a balance between partners and consumers.

[PhillyDillyDee]

I could get behind this but i think the price should be set by the seller and not the platform. But maybe im not thinking that through enough. I just woke up.

[roadkillers]

In digital age, it doesnt make sense at all from a logical perspective (you buy used because it's used, digital cannot be used)... but interesting. It sounds more like an extra source of income for the store and developers possibly, but will be sold as an incentive for customers.

The biggest wait and see is how developers react to this. Will developers keep their games at $70 for longer and sell the "used" as discount creating artificial demand?

[crazyCoconuts]

Blockchain is an interesting way to decentralize the ledger, but Robot Cache will still need to deploy copy protection on your games that prevents you from playing them without verification from a network. Is this architected in a way that you can still play the games if Robot Cache goes out of business? Not clear.

[SinisterKieran]

damn..the title was cut off...was hoping it said feet pictures

[MASTER_RAIDEN]

LMAO. Comment of 2023 right here

[ChiefofLoliPolice]

I can go to cdkeys or G2A and get PC games for cheaper. However selling your digital games sounds welcoming to some people.

[Petebloodyonion]

Is this a perfect solution?
Of course not
But it's the 1st one like and it should be praised as a pro-consumer solution versus not being able to trade.

[boing1]

I'm assuming you would have to buy the game on their platform to be able to sell it later?

[CoNn3rB]

Maybe I'm being stupid but why does it have to be blockchain in order to allow users to sell their games? Surely there's multiple ways to sell digital content without the need for all this blockchain crap

[jznrpg]

Physical for me until it dies. You get 25% for your game that you bought and developer gets 70% ? F that

[Hofstaderman]

Thank you. I never resell to retail stores, I sell to private buyers or trade with them. This was the only way I could afford new games back when I was in school.