Physical to Digital Trade-Ins?

[Vipershark]

Businesswise, that seems like a really dumb move in general for a lot of companies, especially in this era of people only buying "licenses to play games" and not actually the games themselves.

Someone buys a physical copy of a game and owns one license to that game. Since they own a physical copy, they can do whatever they want with it. At the same time, you have that same game on your digital store, which people have to pay money for under normal conditions.

Yet they buy a physical copy, not a digital one, so you... give them a free digital license?
Why?
Yeah, they already spent money on your product, but they didn't spend it on the DIGITAL VERSION of that product.
That consumer could then turn around and resell the physical copy of that game (sans digital copy) to someone else (thus taking money out of your pocket since they bought the game from someone else and not you, the distributor) and recoup much of the cost of the game since they already own a full digital copy.

In other words, you get money for one copy, then lose out on a sale of a digital copy (because you gave it to the buyer for free) and then lose out on a sale of a physical copy because Buyer #2 bought theirs directly from Buyer #1.
Buyer 1 gets off with a free game and money in their pocket, while buyer 2 gets a cheap copy of the game. You, on the other hand, are left having lost money because you lost a sale of a digital copy as well as a sale of a physical copy. One step forward, two steps back.

Unless you somehow lock physical copies to one console per disc, ever, this would be a bad practice for a business.

As a consumer it's great, though.

edit- wait you were talking about trade-ins. IGNORE ME