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Rent-a-Game

Posted by michael on from the reinventing-the-arcade dept.

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."

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  1. Re:EB by Kingfox · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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"