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Originally Posted by ThunderPants73
So just buying a 2nd hand game from Amazon isn't as straight forward as it would seem?
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Edited the post too, please re-read that second paragraph - 'They do exist in a form but not for anything released nowadays'
There's no real answer to it. It all actually depends on what title it is. If it's an old classic or wasn't DRM'd through Steam, Origin or Uplay, it may just have a non DRM system, meaning the code could be redeemable multiple times.
As above, I know the Flight Sim X one because I sold a copy of the game to someone else. So what's the difference between Flight Sim X and Elite Dangerous? Well the date for a start one being a donkeys old game and one being a recent AAA title. FSX is disc based or downloaded from sources. Elite Dangerous is DRM'd via steam.
So really yeah, it's never going to be straight forward as you'll always have to establish whether the game has DRM or can only be downloaded via Steam or another platform. The seller might note that it's DRM free or can be redeemed multiple times.
There is a reason they implemented DRM like this, pirates and key generators or Keygen for short, would generate keys that were legitimate and had already been used but could be used multiple times.