GameFly To Jump Into Digital Game Rentals

An anonymous reader writes "GameFly apparently wants to follow in the footsteps of Netflix, announcing plans to launch a new online client that allows users to download and install their rentals over the internet. The service won't require a separate subscription, but will be bundled alongside a standard GameFly by-mail subscription. GameFly acquired digital game retailer Direct2Drive earlier this year, so it's likely they are harnessing this technology to offer the new service."

Comments

Re:"Rentals" make no sense

[Missing.Matter]

Thanks for explaining the difference between digital and physical media to us. Anything else you're an expert on? I'd love to hear more.

Demos

[Windwraith]

What happened to demos, shareware, and all that fancy stuff that made PC games popular?

Re:"Rentals" make no sense

[petermgreen]

such a practice could easily be deployed via Steam for example, maybe they are doing it already....

I don't think steam currently does rentals but they do free weekends and guest passes which are much the same thing technically so they could probablly bring in rental service pretty quickly if they wanted to.