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Direct2Drive implements new game rental scheme - How does it compare? |
Listed in: PC Gaming Tags: Direct2Drive, news
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| 1. Direct2Drive implements new game rental scheme |
| 2. How does it compare? |
| 3. The verdict |
At OnLive, they charge US$ 5.99 and US$ 8.99 respectively for 3-day or 5-day rentals. Sure, the cost up front is slightly higher, but you can definitely milk much more than five hours off the deal in three or five days. For some people, that's already enough time to finish an entire game, and you only pay for a small fraction of the full game price.
Green Man Gaming has tried its hand with US$ 1 for an entire weekend, but you have to pay the full price up front and they'll just give you the rest back as store credit. It's a little iffy considering you still wind up committing the full game price.
The big honcho, Steam, does not offer rentals. At times, however, they do have "free weekend" events where you can play with the full version of a game over the duration of a weekend. Yes, for free. The events have mostly been catering to multiplayer games as compared with those that emphasized on single-player.
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but first things first, they need more games on that selection
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Thats PC gaming for idiots if you ask me. Direct2Drive is pretty good. $5 for 5 hours and it comes off if you purchase isn't so bad. I got a lot of PC games that sucked and they cost me $50 so trying it for $5 seems good, they definitely need to get the best games up there, and the newest titles as well.
And STEAM does have free weekends, thank god they did the free weekend for Modern Warfare 2 because I'm glad I didn't buy that crap.
PC gaming is great, but pirating is killing it slowly. If every PC game had a demo like nearly every Xbox 360 game I think we'd see increased sales. Unfortunately its far too easy to pirate PC games, and it just doesn't hurt the developers, it hurts all consumers as well. This year should be amazing as far as gaming goes, hopefully people stop being douche bags like "Jhon White" above me and start supporting games.
I'm still playing Bad Company 2 daily...
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