What do you think about renting video games?

Hello everybody,

What do you think about renting video games from your peers or letting individuals rent your collection of video games? Or how about renting video game consoles? I am trying to get a feel on individual's preferences and if a framework could be in place to let that happen. 

Please let me know your thoughts here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12VMqzHvVi38EJiMfR2tSB6HCdsd48HL8_qY2kjhCK7M/viewform?usp=send_form

Thanks everybody!!

Many, many moons ago, I rented a PS1 from Movie Gallery (anyone remember them?) and it was fun.

That's all I have to say... about that.

I don't actually! Was it before Hollywood video and blockbuster? Was it pretty convenient for you? Would you be up for renting a console from someone near you? (maybe a fellow CAG) 

Its gotten too expensive. Before it was like $5 was a week for a Snes or sega game. Even during ps1 64 era it wasn't too bad. Now it's only what redbox? With a tiny selection and $2.25 a day?

cheapskake said:

I don't actually! Was it before Hollywood video and blockbuster? Was it pretty convenient for you? Would you be up for renting a console from someone near you? (maybe a fellow CAG)

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Perhaps they were a regional company, but Hollywood and Blockbuster were still popular around the same time. I was maybe 13 or 14 at the time, so convenience was irrelevant. I would've swam through a shark infested pool, surrounded by blue flames to play Metal Gear Solid and, as it didn't come with a memory card, I had to play through the game in one sitting over the course of the weekend. From what I recall, we had to put down a sizable deposit to walk out the door with the system, but did get it back a day or so after it was returned and inspected. These days, as consoles move closer and closer to being PCs, limited as they may be, it'd be a hard sell, IMHO anyway, to either loan or rent out a console. Maybe others here feel differently, but it'd be like letting someone borrow my underwear. I know that's a weird analogy.

Don't rent games to and from your friends, that's pretty scummy.

I guess it works for some people, considering some people stay up all night doing nothing but play video games. I can't rent because it took me a year to finish Arkham City, and four months for Asylum.

I'll rent when it's appropriate. Like when I just want to try a game out or I know I'll have the time to blow through it in a weekend. Typically I stick to the buy/re-sell plan. I prefer to play games at my own pace and sometimes go days  or weeks without playing, which is why I don't use services like Gamefly.

Although this probably doesn't address what you are asking. Are you trying to set up a system where people swap/rent games/consoles from each other?

Mostly I rented NES games from our local video store for 2 or 3 days at a time.