What if we could rent expensive games ?

[Frknyg0]

Hello Steam Representatives I am An Active Steam Player From Turkey Unfortunately We Cannot Use The Quality Of Steam Due To The Prices In Our Country Prices Are Pushing Me Very Hard As A Student, Let's Make A System Where We Can At Least Rent Storied Games At A Reasonable Price Instead Of Buying, Which Pushes Me To Write A Request, For Example, If You Make One Story Game Price XXX, It Would Be Very Good For Students And Players Like Us If We Could Rent It For 1 Week At XX Price, Thank You For Looking, Have A Nice Day

[Piston Smashed™]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Spawn of Totoro:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Piston Smashed™:

Ask Blockbuster how renting went for them...

To be fair, it worked great for them, until all you can consume, digital buffets like Netflix became a thing.

It doesn't work too well for games though, with out the games getting a good amount of continuous updates like MMORPGs, such as World Of Warcrat.

MS Game Pass seems to do OK for them, but I have doubts about how it works out for the game's developers in the end.

But, ya, a rental service for PC games wouldn't really align with what developers are looking for, so I doubt it would happen. Valve can't just put them up for rent, afterall.

Even Blockbuster paid hundreds or thousands of dollars for they copies of movies, to get the right to make a profit off of renting them out.

Not to mention Blockbuster said it made $800 million in late fees at one point. Something you don't wouldn't get with digital rentals.

Blockbusters was great in its day, I rented many games from them for my PlayStation. Xbox games were also available to rent and even Dreamcast games I think. Although, I do know people who only rented the games out to copy them which is something that has always been easier to do for PC gaming.

They had quite a bit of the 800 million late fees from me.

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Początkowo opublikowane przez Frknyg0:

But in countries with high inflation, developers cannot access these games anyway, so I think something special can be done for those countries.

Why do you think low value customers are so important to cater to?

Początkowo opublikowane przez Frknyg0:

Free weekends are not enough, but since the currency is low, steam purchases also decrease in countries. This exchange rental is very similar to renting a book from a library.

They're not enough for you, but all your needs and wants aren't the only thing that matters. Also you not being able to afford games doesn't mean it's a problem publishers need to solve. Their goal is to make money, but people in poor countries seem to want to believe their goal is to sell units at the expense of all other concerns, like price. So the logic seems to be framed as publishers need to sell games at a pittance and expend a bunch of energy to cater to people who can't afford games and not doing that is some kind of mistake.

[Start_Running]

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Początkowo opublikowane przez Start_Running:

They were actually in decline long before Netflix came around. Netflix was just the Coup de Grace. And Dev/pubs already allow that. It's call a subscription. an EA already has a Subscription sercvice on Steam. and any dev can do one as well or even do subscriptions for single games.

Netflix was around when Blockbuster stated the $800 million from late fees. That is what cause the CEO of Netflix to kick things into high gear. Netflix's subscripsion service (before digital) was already starting to eat into Blockbuster's profits as it was more convenient and no late fees.

Blockbuster and Hollywood video were the two top rental services, until then.

I already addressed the matter of subscriptions services as well. The OP seems to want per a game, rather then many games and likely through Steam, not a 3rd party.

And Per game is doable. I mean a suibscription is a subscription.

[Piston Smashed™]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Frknyg0:

But in countries with high inflation, developers cannot access these games anyway, so I think something special can be done for those countries.

If high inflation is a problem in certain countries then worrying about getting cheaper games is the least of the problems. I think it would be better if the people would spend their money on rebuilding their economy so as it brings down the price of items and luxury goods like games instead of just crying about games being to high. We all have to pay high prices for games no matter where we live, not everyone is earning 1,000's a week.

[wawawiwa]

That already exist, there's market for people renting other people library using family share, you just gotta look

[Crazy Tiger]

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Początkowo opublikowane przez Mad Scientist:

Free weekends is already a thing. But the larger issue which is my guess as to why you suggested this, is due to the countries low economic currency value. That has to be fixed overall for games to be more affordable to that country, by becoming a valuable point of trade rather than just existing.

Free weekends are not enough, but since the currency is low, steam purchases also decrease in countries. This exchange rental is very similar to renting a book from a library.

You might want to consider that your market isn't that important in the grand scheme of things to the platforms and developers/publishers. You wanting to get the games doesn't mean others have to provide it at your terms. What you consider "reasonable" might not actually be considered that by others.

Yes, it sucks to live in a country with an economy down the toilet and I hope it gets better for you lot. But that doesn't mean others are going to, nor have to, cover for it.

[Omnessence]

i could see renting per the hour, like hey rent this game you pay 10$ for 1 hour 3hours ffor like 25 6 hours you 40$ or if they were able to set it up for like like you buy rental hours and you pay like 70$ you get like 14hours on any game that tehy have the permission to rent , so they get a kick back, it would be a way i think espcially for smaller developers likke hey they rented your game for an hour to try well that small dev gets like a good cut, and then if person just uses up all their rental time thats extra revenue then someone who lets say enjoyed the rental and is like 20$ or another estimated 30$ of my rental , ya I think it could help small indy devs espcialyl if they have a fun good game.

[Pscht]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Omnessence:

i could see renting per the hour,

Suddenly, for no apparent reason whatsoever, games have become MUCH more grindy than before.

[Start_Running]

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Początkowo opublikowane przez Omnessence:

i could see renting per the hour,

Suddenly, for no apparent reason whatsoever, games have become MUCH more grindy than before.

This is not far fetched. Developers frequently put obtuse puzzles, or monster difficulty spikes in games to smess with renters

[[N]ebsun]

Save money that you would have spent on renting the game, and buy the game later..
If money is an issue and gaming is a luxury, then you have to make a choice on what you are spending money on and whether playing or buying a game is a priority for you.

[N3tRunn3r]

rent a game, cheat, profit (not)

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Początkowo opublikowane przez Frknyg0:

Hello Steam Representatives I am An Active Steam Player From Turkey Unfortunately We Cannot Use The Quality Of Steam Due To The Prices In Our Country Prices Are Pushing Me Very Hard As A Student, Let's Make A System Where We Can At Least Rent Storied Games At A Reasonable Price Instead Of Buying, Which Pushes Me To Write A Request, For Example, If You Make One Story Game Price XXX, It Would Be Very Good For Students And Players Like Us If We Could Rent It For 1 Week At XX Price, Thank You For Looking, Have A Nice Day

What if developers want payment for a full license purchase instead of tricles from rental?

[FPS]

This business model is already present on Steam, it's called subscription. E.g. you can rent EA games by subscribing to EA pass. Other publishers can adopt this if they wish, but most of them don't

[Start_Running]

Początkowo opublikowane przez FPS:

This business model is already present on Steam, it's called subscription. E.g. you can rent EA games by subscribing to EA pass. Other publishers can adopt this if they wish, but most of them don't

And that's what it boils down to.
Dev/pubs can apply a subscription to any bundle or single game they want..

[Haruspex]

Valve won't do it, and I wouldn't expect them to.

However if your gaming budget is stretched a bit thin due to your economic situation, there's still Gamepass.
https://www.xbox.com/tr-TR/games/store/xbox-game-pass-ultimate-ultimate-1-ay/CFQ7TTC0KHS0/0007

Początkowo opublikowane przez Cathulhu:

1. Stop capitalizing every word.

This isn't the first time I've seen this, and I struggle to understand the reason for it. It's more effort to capitalize every word than it is to capitalize things correctly. Then if you look at OP's post, they used capitalization correctly in the title of the thread, indicating they know how to use it. It's in the body of the thread that the bizarre capitalization behavior begins.