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Rent-a-Game
Mwongozi writes: "British broadband users can now rent computer games to see if they are any good before they lay out the cash to buy the full game. This week, BT Openworld revealed details of its Software To Go scheme which lets people rent software by the hour, day or week. This includes games, graphics packages, educational titles and even programs that let you design your garden."
This has been available to Danes since july I think. GamesOnDemand is the name, and it is run by a Danish ISP.
Those "dummies" got to sell the same game over and over.
Buy once, sell many. Not so dumb after all.
There are 01 kinds of cars in the world. The General Lee, and everything else.
As long as you're within ten days of the original purchase, you can return it with a receipt. When I worked at an EB, we'd get people returning games all the time because they beat it, didn't like it, whatever... and it was store policy.
Hell, the EB POS software has under the listed return reasons, "Did Not Like"
Are there enough broadband users with enough bandwidth in the UK to make this worthwhile? BT's prices for ADSL are shocking... four times what I pay here in Canada for half the speed! I have a friend in Britain considering getting "broadband" from NTL (his cable company), which I find quite amusing as they're only offering 64 kbs... that might be broadband technology, but come on! That's just a bit faster than dialup and only equivalent to a single ISDN channel! I don't think I know anybody in Britain with broadband at home, and I do know quite a few geeky/techie software engineers. Compared with N. America (at least Canada) where I know lots of people with cable or DSL who are down right scared of computers! Besides the later roll-out, I really think broadband is being limited in Britain by costs and especially by the restrictive practises of BT.