• Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.org
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    1 day ago

    One solution to this is companies bringing back the demo which I think should be a thing.

    However, yeah, we agree there are a few cases where actual renting makes sense. I just wish it wasn’t digital.

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      No, you’re right. And combined with the easy refund you get from Steam for example, which would make it basically a trial period, there are a lot of possibilities.

      I was thinking more about very long games that you’re not sure you really will be convinced after only 2 hours. On a Persona for example, 2 hours is nothing, you’re not even going to pass the tutorial.

      Of course a demo is not forced to be at the start of the game, but some games are hard to showcase 😅

      On the other hand, I’m just realizing that we are talking about an actual rental model, which we don’t really have at the moment. Gamepass is a subscription model, which is quite different (and not in a good way)

      So yeah an actual renting model could be cool, depending on its pricing of course.