Replace refunds with rentals

>>379357464
The flaw is that your suggested model doesn't make as much money off of people than the current model.

Pretty sure you can do this on Playstation Now if you choose not to do the monthly subscription.

>>379357464
Video game rentals were more like $8 before Blockbuster went out of business. And the main reason people aren't adopting Blockbuster's business model is...they went out of business.

There's only a limited amount of copies you could've rented from blockbuster

>>379357549
>you were born in a universe where currency is needed for everything
anyone have that rage comic where the pizza delivery guy has to deal with a dude weed lmao person who says money shouldnt exist or something

>>379357687
No it's because you had to physically go to the store. Modern gaming is severely lacking in demos and mostly reliant on hype to sell otherwise shitty games, both of which are addressed by rental. The business model is sound, it's just the delivery mechanism that sucks shit.

>>379357708
That's a limitation of the store itself. They can only physically stock so many copies. Are you saying you need scarcity for the rental model to work? Scarcity was usually a non-issue, they would have enough copies of anything new or you could drive to the slightly further Blockbuster to get a copy there. By the end they were even guaranteeing that new releases would be in stock.

>>379357549
???
>buy game
>refund
>you get back money
>dev gets none of it
versus
>rent game
>don't like it
>dev still gets the bit of money you paid to rent it

>>379358342
Anon, when you buy a game, you're more likely to buy DLC. There's no incentive to buy DLC with rentals. DLC and microtransactions make a huge amount of money, that's why they're in everything.

>>379358537
I was approaching the issue from the perspective of refunds. Like, games you're going to refund no matter what.

If it's a game you rented for a few days and have no interest in returning to, I don't see that person buying and DLC for the game even if they bought it.

Quite a few companies have already tried this or a variation of this.

It just aint profitable

>>379357464
If you buy a game for $60, I think something like $27 goes to the publisher, 13 goes to steam and I can't remember all the portion amounts, but for $5, it isn't worth it for the devs since they still need to split it.

>>379358342
Why should developers be paid for a game I don't like? Maybe they should make good games instead of looking for anti consumer shortcuts like this.

>>379358342
Anon, that's stupid.

Blockbuster bought the copy of that game. They already have their sale. Blockbuster gets that $5. The publisher got whatever Blockbuster negotiated them down to as a bulk price. Revenue sharing for rentals was usually more of a movie thing.

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Why is it that no one remembers Gamefly? Are you all literally 18 and under? Not to mention, Gamefly still exist and it cost 10 dollars a month to rent any game you want and it you want to keep it you can even buy it from them.

I had Gamefly during the 360 era. It was pretty sweet. The only problem was getting games on release that were niche as they probably had low supplies. But for anything mainstream you could get it day one.

>ree fuck customer rights

>>379361235
I always saw commercials for that like 5 years ago and assumed it was shitty game netflix so i never bothered.

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Aren't there several companies that do game rentals?

>>379361503
What's shitty about renting any game you want for 10 bucks?

>>379361983
I don't like getting games in the mail/having to mail them back. The only reason i like netflix is because i can stream. PSnow i a thing but iv'e never seen a worse service, impossible to play any game it's a scam.

It will definitely not be 5 dollars if they were to do that

>>379362198
>I don't like getting games in the mail
>He has never purchased a game off amazon

Shocking.

>>379362639
That's not what i meant but ok whatever you win.

>buy used game a gamestop
>you have 7 days to return it no questions asked
>return it before 7 days are up

Why don't more people do this?

>>379357464
Steam sales literally ARE rentals, you lot just don't realise one day you'll essentially have to 'give your games back' (or illegally crack them to continue playing what you thought you owned.)

>>379364012
Some people collect games and will sometimes go back to the game in the future. Beats returning it and spending the time hunting it down with increased prices due to its potential rarity.

>>379359173
>>379360346
I think you guys totally missed the post I was replying to

The post I was replying to was saying that the suggested model (of digital renting) vs digital refunds wouldn't work because the "current" system makes more money, which doesn't make sense? Because nobody makes money from refunds?