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Originally Posted by Der Teddy Bar
I see no reason a game should be any different to a book, no-one would find it acceptable that you could not lend or re-sell your books?
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That is indeed what it should be if they wanted to keep customers. You buy it, it is yours. No licensing, but of course like a book you don't just start making copies of the pages and post them, or copy the code, models etc. But it is yours to keep -- otherwise, what benefit would presently remain for paying customers?
It smelled fishy all the time that they would target pirated with the DRM, but then hit the loyal customers as badly by disallowing resale (through the agreement you sign when creating the necessary online account at Ubi).
But you can't really fault Ubi since their "concept" is in many countries legal, and in many others like Germany likely illegal, but yet "untried lands" that a case would have to properly define first. And as it appears, enough people followed them like Lemings. If at all, then their strategy shows only clearly that all they care about is "more sales, more money", which is not surprising since they are a big stockholding company.
There is only one thing you can do about it, which is voting with your wallet. Or if you live in Ger and are adventurous, sue them and see whether disallowing resale is in disagreement with German customer and basic law. This will surely happen within the next few years, someone will do it, and if it is only one of the big consumer protection organizations.