What is the best online videogame rental company?
I would not recommend any type of Netflix-like service, particularly for video games — I would recommend peer-sold copies (like Amazon’s buy-used option, or half.ebay.com). For half.com, there’s no subscription, and you can usually get back close to the same price you paid for it, meaning there is no real investment at all and you still get to play the game as long as you want. It seems like Netflix and similar would make money sense, but I did the math and it really doesn’t. It’d make better sense if you got the game if there was free overnight shipping, because the waiting periods of getting the games crucially hinders the value over a standard rental. Plus, the longer you keep a game, the longer you’re actually paying for its rental (since you can only have so many at a time). For instance, I bought Castlevania: Circle of the Moon for GBA for about $14, played it until I was utterly tired of it and sold it back for $12. Shipping is a flat rate, so if shipping initially cost you $2.
