RENT GAMES

[MrSɾ3ɳιƚყ_97]

I think it would be cool if steam allowed people to rent games for 48 hours of a low cost of $3-5 depending on what game it is. Just an idea you know. Redbox on steam ;)

[Ogami]

ORIGIN has something similar.
For 3,99 a month you get access to like 90 different games.
You can play them as much as you want in that time.
For 14,99 you can get a premium mode which will also add the newest game releases by EA like Anthem or the newest Battlefield and such.

Its honestly not such a bad deal, especially the cheap version for just 3,99 if you did not play those games yet.

Of course the game library of ORIGIN is MUCH smaller then on Steam and nearly everything is published by EA. So its easier to offer something like that.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Use the search.

It is brought up too many times.

[8ullfrog]

It isn't similar, Origin is trying to turn themselves into a subscription service, having seen Microsoft and Sony having a pretty good shake at it.

They tried to force origin access at checkout when I was buying the Mass Effect Trilogy in December. I had to go through 3 "support agents" before they let me buy the trilogy WITHOUT the "magical" EA access.


I may be marking myself as an old, but I freaking loved renting SNES games from Blockbuster, or even buying used playstation titles for $10, instead of $50.

Of course, like gamestop, they wised up around the time the PS2 came out and started charging stupid prices.

Not ebay stupid though, I've seen games that go for $10 hitting the $200 - $300 from ebay speculators.

That being said, it is a good reminder that if you want physical media, you better get on that soon, then hermetically seal that crap.

[Mikasa Ackerman]

3-5$ for 48 hours , you realize alot of games are shorter than that ? i grinded through most of watchdogs 2 in days of playing for 8 -11 hours twice

if people can rent games for 2 full days , you can beat almost everything thats not a huge rpg in that time
and the big difference between a game and movie , a movie always is just 1,5 - 3 at most 4 hours long most people dont watch that non stop in those 48 hours ,they just have 2 full days to watch a short movie that lasts a few hours

also these services work by making people pay a little for renting the movie and later either rent it again a few times , or end up buying it , spending more money than they would have paid for just buying it , same with cinemas

but games are different , after you beat a game ,you wont play it again unless you really like it , i beat assassins creed 1 once on xbox360 and once on pc , i wont play it anymore

if you pay for 96 hours ( which would be 6 -10$ ) you can easily beat ANY game thats not an MMORPG in that time

[cinedine]

Originally posted by ForzaRacer:

I think it would be cool if steam allowed people to rent games for 48 hours of a low cost of $3-5 depending on what game it is. Just an idea you know. Redbox on steam ;)

Maybe look at the prices of current renting services like PS Now. 5 dollar is an hour or so.

And that's cloud based without publishers running the risk that you just pay your low costs, have a perfectly safe and sanctioned download and then just crack the DRM with the inevitable tools that such a service will create.
"Renting" on PC without cloud will never happen.

[DocShady]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Use the search.

It is brought up too many times.

:qr:

Never seen this topic once, nor would it matter if it was. Keep talking about what you want as long as its civil and on topic to the forum its posted in.

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by Ogami:

ORIGIN has something similar.
For 3,99 a month you get access to like 90 different games.
[...]
Of course the game library of ORIGIN is MUCH smaller then on Steam and nearly everything is published by EA. So its easier to offer something like that.

EA offers a 'renting' service for basically EA games. That money barely doesn't leave EA hands at all.

That'd be similar to Steam offering a similar service for Valve games.

Once you get third parties into it how and who gets the shares of the profits becomes messy.

[XDeadzX]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

EA offers a 'renting' service for basically EA games. That money barely doesn't leave EA hands at all.

That'd be similar to Steam offering a similar service for Valve games.

Once you get third parties into it how and who gets the shares of the profits becomes messy.

Origin access offers a lot of third party titles as well. It's far from just EA titles, but it is heavily EA titles. Dungeons 3, Project Highrise, Cities Skylines, Batman games, a few LEGO titles, Mad Max, Sundered, Pyre, Darksiders 3 -- Just to name a few of them. It's about 160 titles total, and games from about 60 different publishers that aren't EA.

[Xite >X< 👁️👁 🇦🇺]

Multiplayer 2 day rentals may work out, especially for those games and developers that often offer free weekends. It would be simply paying to choose which 2 days you can play.

[Ganger]

Originally posted by Miss Ann Thrope:

Won't happen. Game publishers and developers simply won't make enough profit.

Both EA and microsoft do game passes that basically rents out games. With Microsoft gamepass you get to play all the brand new microsoft titles on release e.g crackdown 3.

I use both services from time to time and I can say that I have saved alot of money by doing this.

Totally worth it, downside is you will never keep the game.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Ganger:

Originally posted by Miss Ann Thrope:

Won't happen. Game publishers and developers simply won't make enough profit.

Both EA and microsoft do game passes that basically rents out games. With Microsoft gamepass you get to play all the brand new microsoft titles on release e.g crackdown 3.

I use both services from time to time and I can say that I have saved alot of money by doing this.

Totally worth it, downside is you will never keep the game.

No they don't. They offer a subscription based service to a select list of games made only by them. VASTLY different.

[XDeadzX]

Originally posted by brian9824:

Originally posted by Ganger:

Both EA and microsoft do game passes that basically rents out games. With Microsoft gamepass you get to play all the brand new microsoft titles on release e.g crackdown 3.

I use both services from time to time and I can say that I have saved alot of money by doing this.

Totally worth it, downside is you will never keep the game.

No they don't. They offer a subscription based service to a select list of games made only by them. VASTLY different.

No, they don't. They offer a large catalog of both their own and third party games. Origin access has 64 different publishers on it. Gamepass has 150+ games, largely third party.

It's not just one companies games on either service.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by XDeadzX:

Originally posted by brian9824:

No they don't. They offer a subscription based service to a select list of games made only by them. VASTLY different.

No, they don't. They offer a large catalog of both their own and third party games. Origin access has 64 different publishers on it. Gamepass has 150+ games, largely third party.

It's not just one companies games on either service.

I should have clarified, its their "catalog" which includes other developers that publish and release thru them. Steam doesn't have that setup and is independent so they can't do anything like that.

[ペンギン]

And do not forget, we already "rent" games as long as publishers and developer give us the permission to use their keys...

[ShelLuser]

I'd rather see Steam continue with some (sometimes really crazy) sales which allows you to pick up a game for a very low price rather than having a rental service. The problem with these services is that it's too easy to turn into a cashgrab.

With Steam I always have control over my library and my games. With a rental not so much.