Online Solution for Renting FFXIII?

beast - 540 days 20 hours ago

You loose money when hard copy is sitting on the stand. But if you use online download media, there is no investment of packaging and Blu-ray disk cost, PLUS you cant rent online games . So the future in gaming might just be online games download atleast in some aspect ie activation of games or even download patch to activate a game. All this wont work because not all have internet.

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Le-mo - 540 days 18 hours ago

Sounds like a good plan to me. Fans of the series will buy a copy and keep it, others will might want to rent it and they can do so by downloading the game online for a period of time. But then again, the file will be huge.

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Asurastrike - 540 days 17 hours ago

I better be able to get a physical copy. God, SE is so money hungry.

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GodofPeace - 540 days 17 hours ago

I will not download a game that is going to above 15 gigs of memory that would be RETARDED. Obviously its not going to happen

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Seraphim - 540 days 16 hours ago

1. This makes absolute sense since every rental is profit for the rental company, not the developer. And between rentals and used games sales these developers are losing A LOT of sales. This is just a way to tap into additional resources you'd otherwise be losing from rentals.

2. Sega Channel. Remember it anyone? That was the best thing to happen to gaming period. $10-20 [?] a month for 50ish titles that you could play anytime, anyday, and the list changed monthly w/ popular titles often coming back the following month. So why not offer some sort of online rental service for games?

The only thing I can't grasp is the price and time limits. To be a viable option for those who have an internet connection this service has to be comparable to or cheaper than traditional rentals.

So how do you go about finding the price point that competes w/ rentals?

- $15 a month to target gamefly and dust conventional rental stores?
- $5 per 25 [or X] hours of play?
- $10 for two weeks?

that's the only possible downfall that I see. Because if the value and reason isn't there people will continue to turn to already available methods for renting...

Anyway it's a great idea for them to gain revenue off the game. They'd still be selling hard copies to those who want it while appealing to those who want to rent it instead of buying it or rent it to see if they want to buy it. Perhaps they could rent it and if you choose to buy it give it to gamers at a discount. X dollars for rental minus X dollars for digital download equals a better price than buying it retail...

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Dream Machine - 540 days 14 hours ago

Something inside me tells me this relates to a possible demo, rather then anything else. I'm sure FFXIII will be pushing 50GB at least, disregarding everything else, people with 40GB PS3's won't be able to get it!

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sinncross - 540 days 12 hours ago

give me physical media SE that i can buy and own.

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max-jeager - 540 days 9 hours ago

he was saying that the products that are not buy and the online aspects can come into a rental option but how can anyone would rent XIII when it is a 50 gigs or more game (with compression for the compresion wh0res)

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JoelR - 540 days 9 hours ago

account linking

basically every game sold has a serial number and they link it to a psn account on a master server. If you sell the game the next person who buys it needs your account or it will not work.
Easy to implement if you are willing to survive the backlash.
They could also put in a transfer fee - if you sell the game they will transfer the rights for X$ to the new person - say 20% of the original cost. This would still allow transfers but also allow them to make money on the used market.
You could also store all saves online - and require them to use the linked game to use the saves.
(with a tech support division to help if someone damaged their original discs - but that is cheap if you can keep all the aftermarket sales to yourself)

This option is more palatable now - especially since they now have an account loyalty program. Before trophies people might have sold their accounts as well as the game but since they are attempting to entangle people into loyalty programs it makes it easier to make a account a permanent thing.

This has been discussed at several dev conferences and while it is held as a good idea... no one wants to risk the consumer backlash as of yet and without an account loyalty program it was thought to be a non starter(though we have been comparing it to MMOs recently)

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avacadosnorkel - 540 days 9 hours ago

without them I'd be stuck

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juuken - 540 days 10 hours ago

Um...physical copy please.
Unless they have something up their sleeves, I don't think this is a good idea.

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