How is this different from Xbox Game Pass?
How is this different from Xbox Game Pass?
rentals are fine if you're only going to pay so much but you should be able to get a tiered discount so if you have 1 month in its a certain amount, and so forth.
I doubt any third party is going to offer new games on Game Pass or rentals. Not when gamers can easily beat a game over a weekend. If a movie costs $20 to buy and they can rent it for $5 then one would expect game rentals to be much higher. How popular would a $14.99 game rental be for 24 hours?
Umm there is a rental company called redbox. They have movie rentals for $1 and video game rentals for $3 a day. Brand new games are at redbox. I rented wolfenstein 2 when it came out.
There are thousands and thousands of redbox kiosks around the United States.
21$ for a 3 month rent of a game?... Microsoft must be out of their mind with those prices.
21$ for a 3 month rent of a game?... Microsoft must be out of their mind with those prices.
On Playstation Now Sony was charging $3 for 4 hours of play on last generation titles. How many third party publishers are going to sacrifice the $60 normal price for a game rental where most people can beat a game over a few days?
Xbox Game Pass would be a much better deal then 21$ for a 3 month rent of a game. Even purchasing a second hand game for a bit more then 21$ would be a better deal then renting it at that price.
Absurd price!
At least they're getting something as opposed to used game sales and RedBoxOn Playstation Now Sony was charging $3 for 4 hours of play on last generation titles. How many third party publishers are going to sacrifice the $60 normal price for a game rental where most people can beat a game over a few days?
Hm I work for a book publisher, we are testing out rentals of ebooks etc. It's the rental market that will kill the returns/trade-in market. This is another of those things that MS proposed at the beginning of this generation, part of the original vision for the Xbox One, that was maybe just a couple of years ahead of where the consumer base was on those topics. But now we see people coming around to it. I think it makes a lot of sense.
I'm sure I read on Reddit that it isn't rental but instead you can 'pay off' your new games in 3 monthly instalments, which makes more sense given that Game Pass is a rental scheme of sorts.
Crikey, I read a million things on Reddit everyday, I really couldn’t say and the source could have been incorrect but it made sense.Where did you read this on reddit?
The way it was first announced was terrible and not well thought out. Deep within though there was some good ideas.Interesting...between this, GamePass, Digital Game sales, it's as if Microsoft is going back to its original XB1 E3 promises of digital licenses/ownership (save for some things, like not being able to sell disk games) on the XBox One.
And you know what--this makes sense. Instead of announcing this like the asshat Matrick did, Microsoft is slowly taking the good bits and weaving them into the fabric of XBox Live. This way, by the time the next gen of consoles drops, Microsoft won't be having to announce "new" digital ownership features--they'll already be in place for some time, and Microsoft can focus on system hardware specs and games.
The way it was first announced was terrible and not well thought out. Deep within though there was some good ideas.
Agreed. There were some good ideas, but Matrick is a moron and completely ran the XB1 system and launch into the ground, so those good ideas were lost in his incompetence.
But hey, maybe he’s doing better at Zynga?
There is a very important difference between an option and an enforcement though. I have no issues with games also being available as downloads, as dl-rentals or as subscriptions, as long as I keep my full-rights-retail versions as an option (the only one I even consider). I have no issues with the current initiatives which are merely offering new options. But if Microsoft ends physical distribution or limits the rights on physcial games again, they can fuck right off.Interesting...between this, GamePass, Digital Game sales, it's as if Microsoft is going back to its original XB1 E3 promises of digital licenses/ownership (save for some things, like not being able to sell disk games) on the XBox One.
And you know what--this makes sense. Instead of announcing this like the asshat Matrick did, Microsoft is slowly taking the good bits and weaving them into the fabric of XBox Live. This way, by the time the next gen of consoles drops, Microsoft won't be having to announce "new" digital ownership features--they'll already be in place for some time, and Microsoft can focus on system hardware specs and games.
So something like ps now on xbox