14 DAY TRIAL // One of the large drawbacks digital distribution had to face was the policy of reselling used games. While this is a common practice with boxed titles, with retail outlets even accepting used ones for store credit, as a general policy, digital games come with a no-resell policy. One of the mentioned points inside Steam's End User License Agreement is that Steam users can't charge fees for allowing others to use their account.
Basically, you're not allowed to sell your Steam account with the digital merchandise that it contains. But that didn't stop one man from putting his account up for auction on eBay. Even more, it didn't stop someone from actually buying it either. “dave311freak” estimated the value of his digital game collection at $2,700, but said he'd be content if he got at least $500 for it. Well, lo and behold, not only was the transaction completed, but dave311freak got $1,000 for his games.
“This account has absolutely no bans on any of the games, is in good standing with VAC, and any one of the games can be downloaded at any time on any computer with Steam on it,” “dave311freak” wrote in the description. “I will change all of the information in that account to the winner's email address and issue a password to the winner that he or she can change once they log in. I will also provide user account information for games that require additional credentials (Dragon Age for the DLC, Company of Heroes Account info, etc...).”
As to why someone would want to get rid of such a massive collection, the reason is the predictable one. He wants to go cold-turkey, stop playing video games and spend more time with his family. “As you can probably tell, I spend way too much time buying and playing video games and I am going to try to spend more time with my family and doing other hobbies.” Well, while we can all relate to that feeling, we can also assure him that he'll be back in no time at all, dying to feel the mouse and keyboard once more, just so he can stop waking up in the middle of the night, screaming in binary format.
Now, even if the transaction was made, and the account is legit and operating, this might not last for long. If Valve gets a word of this, and it probably already has, the account could get banned, and the buyer will end up with nothing but their wasted money. For their sake, let us hope that the transaction was made in secrecy, and that the Steam ID was not made public.