Movie Rentals, Lionsgate

[Korusho]

3.99 - 5.99 for a 48 hour rental that starts ... when? And only 30 days? We could go buy DVD's or blurays for this much of these old titles in bargain bins. This is a bit pricey for just a rental.

Discussion: What is your opinion on Steam expanding into movies, shows and similar media as has been the pattern? Is this good for Steam? Does it not have a place? Do you feel like spending 6 bucks for a 48 hour rental that you can easily get permanently for probably two dollars?

Remember we are talking about specifically the movies. Lets stay on topic and keep ourselves in check. No need to get fiesty when talking about product in a digital platform. No one insulted how your Lalafell looks or that you can't aim for the life of you.

[miztizm]

Movies

Now steam has a movies on saile
Its another marketing step to make a money from steam, instead of payable mods?
Movies are not games, they are easy pirated and for this price... , its even worst!
thanks to meditate on it.

[MainframeMouse]

Not sure what you are saying.

Disc based Movies pretty much use one standard of DRM which was cracked a long time back.
MOst games use one standard of DRM (steam) which also was cracked a long time ago.

Even those that have "new" DRM like GTAV are broken and distributed with in a couple of days of release.

You are also missing the point these Movies are streamed, in a way movies supplied by Steam are have a "higher" level of protection. A 2 hour movie can be ripped from disc in 30 minutes or less, a streamed film takes 2 hours to capture the stream then and extra 30 minutes to compress the captured data.

I have no issue with Steam selling movies, though I had hoped they would be kept locally rather than streamed.

[UberNoodle]

Steam is a store and sell things is what it does. So I have no problems whatsoever with Steam's efforts to sell things. Like most stores, I know what I want before I enter and as soon as I do, I navigate to the appropriate section of the store and find the thing I want. I have customised the front page so that most of the things I am not interested in don't appear. It would be great to have the same control over the front window of Target or Gamestop. In the end, I don't see why people are so upset that Steam sells things that the people don't like. It's not as if Steam has limited shelf space. It's not as if the same kinds of games are no longer being released on Steam. But if you're the kind of consumer that walks into a store not knowing what you want, then I can see why you might be annoyed by all the things you DON'T want. But that's what snooping around a store is all about.

[wuddih]

http://store.steampowered.com/universe/steam/

announced 2 years ago. don't pretend that this is something new.

the linked Movie is by far not the first one, there are hundreds of other movies already on here.

[miztizm]

i just dont wish it becomes next netflix, but im sure it will

[HLCinSC]

Originally posted by ☠:

i just dont wish it becomes next netflix, but im sure it will

I like Netflix...

[Tux]

I bought a game and a movie on Amazon.com!!

[76561198001062896]

same could be said about pc games in general

the idea is to give pirates a much more convenient alternative than piracy, however

same could be said about movies and music with platforms like Deezer, Spotify, Netflix...

[Sgt. Neckbeard]

If the prices were more compelling or they had a pricing model like Netflix, I wouldn't mind since I'd be able to get most of my entertainment from one program

And it my fat ass was on the couch with big picture mode..... mmmm yes

[nigelcrouch123]

If im paying £14 for a movie , im going to buy a pyhsical copy not a download

[RedLightning]

Wow.. $20.00 for a digital "streamed" copy.. no thanks.

[Bill the Gifter]

I'm not too sure about this. On the one hand I like the idea that steam is becoming more diverse.

However the pricing is a bit of an issue (It's inline with the amazon price of 13.99 for an HD copy)

Trouble is. If things continue in this vain then I don't really see any point in buying stuff from steam.

[Jack Pipsam]

So what if they're easily pirated?

I buy movies through Xbox Video (or now 'Films & TV'), although mainly on blu-ray these days because blu-ray is amazing.

Just because it can be pirated doesn't mean they shouldn't sell it, that's stupid logic.

[♠Jade♠]

Originally posted by nigelcrouch123:

If im paying £14 for a movie , im going to buy a pyhsical copy not a download

My thoughts exactly

[miztizm]

Originally posted by node357:

when Steam came out, it was little more than the successor to Won, the network for playing Half-Life and its mods online. i don't remember Valve ever announcing what Steam was going to become. it just evolves. don't expect it to stay the way it is. it never does that.

its evolving to make more money:) lives 4 it self!