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This is all speculation, but I would guess that the main issue is legal agreements with the publishers. The publishers don't want any game resales, they want only new sales. Unless France can equally compel the publishers to allow this, it might end up being that Steam is forced to withdraw from France.

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Maybe, but I don't see that publishers could push Valve around too much these days.

You're right everyone wants new sales - but they've learned to be okay with offering 90% off at some point, and smaller discounts along the way.

> I would guess that the main issue is legal agreements with the publishers. The publishers don't want any game resales, they want only new sales.

Publishers tolerated reselling for decade when game mediums where physical.

Nowadays they complain about it to increase their margin, purely because they can technically lock the medium.

This is bullshit of the same level than the DRMs and other lock-in nonsense. I am pretty happy some consumer association finally arrived to say them to fuck off.

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