Microsoft Working on Digital Trade Ins?
A survey from Microsoft which popped up on Reddit today indicated that the video game and software company was toying with the idea of offering a trade-in for digital purchases. While the trade in amount would not be much – a mere 10% if the survey is to believed – it would be better than nothing if you truly don’t want to play the game anymore.
On a 60.00 game, consumers would only be getting 6 dollars back. Ideally, the company would work on a tiered system much like EB games does. While there is no supply and demand problems digitally – like for instance, EB might have – Microsoft could tweak the system to provide higher returns for newer games. Unfortunately, without the ability to resell “used” digital games, there really is no incentive for Microsoft to do this, outside of increasing customer satisfaction.
While this is just a survey, we have seen things like this in the past come to pass. It will be interesting to see how gamers react to this news. For myself, I have over 70 digital titles on my Xbox One, and I play very few of them still. However, in many situations, the majority of the games are worth more than 10% to me. There is always the odd day when I go into the backlog and grab something I have not play in years. The fallout from this will be very interesting. For more on this topic, stay with Games Reviews!
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