19th May 2003, 7:04 PM
RENT I say, there's a diff. I never buy a game I've never heard of, but I rented games I never heard of all the time. Sheesh, read what I said. I used to rent games all the time, and had nothing to base the decisions on but the boxes. Buying was ONLY done with games I'd already played. I had nothing at all to find out about games with. The net didn't exist (at least not as it is now), and I didn't have the slightest idea that there was a magazine. Even if I did, I wouldn't have got it. My parents weren't about to get me a magazine subscription, and that was regarding stuff I did ask for, like computing magazines in general. ABF, you really need to think in the terms of what a KID can do with their VERY limited control. Maybe if I got money (I hear some kids got this thing caled "allowance", a concept that was foreign to me) I could have got a magazine myself, but kids don't get money, except those rich kids with that allowance thing.
If I already know a game is great, I don't bother renting it. Best not ruin some of the experience before I buy it if I already know it's great. Renting is for one purpose only, playing games you never heard of to see if they happen to be worth playing. Guess what? When it comes to that, it's very superficial in the selection process.
Why am I defending myself? I'm almost positive I have no need to at all.
If I already know a game is great, I don't bother renting it. Best not ruin some of the experience before I buy it if I already know it's great. Renting is for one purpose only, playing games you never heard of to see if they happen to be worth playing. Guess what? When it comes to that, it's very superficial in the selection process.
Why am I defending myself? I'm almost positive I have no need to at all.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)