Green Man Gaming brings trade-ins to digital distribution

And with that, a new digital delivery service enters the fray. Green Man Gaming promises to change one of the most crucial limiting factors of game downloads: the inability to sell back your used games. Trading in “used” files of your games for credits doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, does it?

But that’s exactly what GMG will allow you to do when it launches in the first quarter of this year with an estimated 400 games. An interesting twist for sure, and one that will benefit finicky consumers greatly.

Traded-in games will be resold specifically as used games, which raises the question, will these so-called “used games” be cheaper than “brand new” ones? The service says it will “pay significant royalties to the publisher each time the game is traded in perpetuity,” which sounds like a good way to attract clients.

I’m still struggling to fathom this concept myself, so it’ll be neat to see how this all plays out when Green Man Gaming launches.

New Service to Offer Digital Trade-Ins [GamePolitics — thanks, eternalplayer]