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This sounds like a neat idea. A bit like Impulse, this service lets you buy games online and download them. But what's new is that you can resell games once you're done you can resell the game back to the store. There's nothing about reselling them on to fellow users, but I doubt it will happen in the near future. The difference to this and Impulse is that Impulse doesn't seem to let you resell games yet, even after GOO. This (hopefully) isn't vaporware and they expect to have a few hundred games at launch and around 2000 (almost as much as Steam) by the end of the year. Thoughts? I hope this will work. I'd buy from here more than anywhere else (except for GOG, but that's different).
I was hoping this was a video of Greenman from Always Sunny in Philadelphia that was somehow related to videogames.
Lets see if it actually takes off. I imagine most publishers don't want to back a digital company that resells games back to itself unless its getting a piece of that action. I don't think they are fond of gamestop in the US for the second hand market as it is.
I'll believe it when I see it. But right now, I wouldn't be too surprised if this just some fancy way of scamming potential investors.
Meh. The only thing that's going to make me buy from anywhere other than Steam is a completely DRM Free platform.
The fact that they claim they'll have 400 games at launch, and 2000+ by the end of the year, makes me suspect it's either going to be a casual games portal or be dealing in the same sorts of older titles GOG does.
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Crassmaster: The fact that they claim they'll have 400 games at launch, and 2000+ by the end of the year, makes me suspect it's either going to be a casual games portal or be dealing in the same sorts of older titles GOG does.

I wonder if they'll end up like GamersGate, a few AAA titles but 80% of what they sell you never hear of and those are the games that look cheap, get no support, and are sold out of luck to someone who happened to be curious for a game like that. Stuff like Tarr Chronicles or Parkan 1+2.
Post edited January 22, 2010 by tb87670
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Ralackk: Lets see if it actually takes off. I imagine most publishers don't want to back a digital company that resells games back to itself unless its getting a piece of that action. I don't think they are fond of gamestop in the US for the second hand market as it is.

According to the article publishers get a significant share.
I'm wondering how they'll do it with multiplayer games.
Will old keys be blocked and new ones issued?
And how about DLC?
Will you be able to sell it apart from the original game, can you keep DLC while selling the original game (although I don't see why)?
As for Steam, I can only assume that if they start offering this it will be for Steam users only.
So kind of a Steam market place for 2nd hand games.
I guess that all depends on the contracts they have with publishers.
Post edited January 22, 2010 by HertogJan
Interested in how they'll implement and run it.
Personally, I have enough clients and DD services I use now and don't want more, they'd need a lot of impressive titles to get me to use another.
Holy crap! It lives! The site actually works and sells 1p games (not all of them, just some of them). Neat.
I don't think they have 400 titles at launch. But that's a given.
Post edited May 10, 2010 by michaelleung
I bought Necrovision expansion and downloading it. Download speed is really fast and trade in function also working too. You can buy the games and when you finished you can resell it to the store and you have your credit on account and with that credit you can buy a new game again, cool.
http://greenmangaming.zendesk.com/entries/159758-how-do-i-trade-in-my-game-with-green-man-gaming
Edit: I don't know about the DRM yet. I hope it is the same as Impulse or Steam.
Post edited May 10, 2010 by acare84
Damn it, no paypal?! I'm not ready to divulge my credit card details to these guys, and even if I'm willing, the conversion fee would be way higher than the 1 pence price. Oh well..
...and you can't put more than 1 game in a cart, too. Definitely not a good first impression...
Post edited May 10, 2010 by Catshade
No paypal ? Too bad... Yeah, i know i know, paypal is shit and all that stuff... but so far I never had any problems with it, so an online store that doesn't have a paypal option is a no-go for me.
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acare84: Edit: I don't know about the DRM yet. I hope it is the same as Impulse or Steam.

It's a client system, mostly similar to Impulse. You can download the games as many times as you want, though you must have the Capsule client installed. You can manually set the install location regardless of where you installed the client.
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