Steam To Allow Trade-ins, Can Used Steam Game Sales Be Far Behind?

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There’s a rumor going around saying that Valve is about to start offering trade-ins on its Steam service. No, really. And by rumor we mean the indefatigable psychic hotline of the game industry, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter. Setting aside the fact that rampant rumor mongering and baseless speculation is usually where his bread is buttered, let’s hear the man out.

“Steam is phenomenal” he says, “it’s a great service” he says. ” If it’s so phenomenal, why doesn’t it have trade-ins? Don’t worry, he’s going to clear that right up. “Steam gives gamers enough other stuff so that they don’t resent the fact they can’t trade in their games. And you know, name all the Steam games that you’ve purchased that you’ve traded back in to somebody else for credit. Steam’s about to let you do that supposedly, you know like trade and exchange, but they’re going to take a fee from it.”

So Steam is so great you wouldn’t exchange games for credit even if you could, but Valve is really big on implementing useless features. Yes, Michael Pachter, that made perfect sense.