News is circulating that a district court in Paris, France has ruled in favor of a consumer rights organization in France known as the Union fédérale des consommateurs, who challenged Valve in court to offer gamers the option to resell their games in Steam.

GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that the court not only charged Valve with making their software available to resell through Steam, they also charged that Valve’s lack of reimbursement for Wallet funds when a user leaves the platform is a violation of EU standards, along with certain other rights related to mods, user-submitted content, and account subscriptions and termination.

Valve, however, did not see eye to eye with the judge’s verdict, with PC Gamer reporting that Valve’s Doug Lombardi issued a statement on the verdict, saying…

“We disagree with the decision of the Paris Court of First Instance and will appeal it. The decision will have no effect on Steam while the case is on appeal”

Valve has up to three months to appeal the verdict, and going by Lombardi’s response they’re already in the process of doing so.

This isn’t the first time that Valve has been challenged to offer gamers a resale option in Steam. Back in 2013 the German VZVB consumer rights organization had challenged Valve in court about adding a resale option to Steam, as reported by GameZone. The VZVB, however, lost that case.

Australia’s ACCC also took Valve to court over a lack of refund options in Steam, and they managed to win their case back in 2014, which enabled gamers to finally refund their purchases if they played under two hours or had the game for two weeks or less.

If the resale option finally becomes available in Steam it would be a long time coming, but could very well put a lot of other gray market resellers on notice unless Valve limits how much gamers can sell their games for.

(Thanks for the news tip Bowden and Inquisitor Dust of Ordo Xenos)