Steam Might Offer Trade-Ins and Exchanges Soon, Analyst Says

Renowned games industry analyst Michael Pachter revealed in a recent interview that Valve's Steam digital distribution platform might offer the gamers the ability to trade-in or exchange their game licenses.

Steam is currently one of the most popular PC distribution platforms, with lots of users and a huge amount of promotions that keeps them coming back and purchasing not only full pledged titles, but also smaller ones.

Up until now though, if you bought a game off Steam, it would be permanently linked to your account, and you can't trade it in or do things like that in case you're bored or don't like it.

According to Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter, Valve will soon implement some new features to Steam, including the ability to trade-in or exchange your game licenses.

"Steam is phenomenal, it’s a great service," Pachter explained, "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."

This may seem a bit of a stretch, but Pachter may have some inside information this time around.

If Steam would implement such a move, Valve might earn quite a lot of money, as there are certainly people with huge games libraries that want to get some of their money back.

As of yet, Valve hasn't commented on Pachter's statements, but it has been implementing new things like the Steam Wallet into its digital distribution service, so we might be in for some new options in the future.

Will you support such an initiative from Steam or is it no better than GameStop's trade-in program.