Rent Video Games- Save Yourself Time and Money
The ability to rent video games from home without leaving the house has always been a true dream of mine. Not only does renting video games online keep you busy, but it can be very satisfying knowing you can rent as many titles as you want at anytime and generally receive them within a day or two.
Here are some Video Game Rental Statistics you might find interesting:
•"U.S. consumers spent $633.6 million renting video games in 2001, and a record-breaking $6 billion buying video game software (including PC software)."
But why are people renting video games instead of buying? I guess I can't say gamers are not buying video games.
"The U.S. computer and video game software sales grew four percent in
2004 to $7.3 billion -- a more than doubling of industry software."
But why rent games? I would estimate that people rent for 4 primary reasons.
1.The convenience
2.Its cheaper
3.Able to test games
4.Time sensitive
Convenience is truly a luxury worth having these days. People are looking for ways to save time and effort. Everything these days has to be fast and easy. Online video game rental companies provide that and much more. First of all and most important they deliver the game right to your front door. No more wasting your gas going to your favorite rental store, only to find out that the game you wanted is no longer available and won't be available until you make that drive again. Gas is too expensive these day, who wants to spend all that money driving to a video store when you can easily accomplish the same task on your home computer?
Second of all it's simple alot cheaper. The average video store charges from $4.00 to $6.00 dollars per video game rental. That could get expensive, specially if you're renting numerous titles per week. Most of the well known game rental clubs like GameFly, Gottaplay, Intelliflix and RentZero only charge $12.95 to $19.95 per month for unlimited video game rental. So let's say you rent 2 titles per week at the local video store. That equal around $30.00 dollars per month compared to $12 to $13 dollars per month with the online alternative. This is a large savings at the end of the month.
Now here is the greatest part. Have you ever purchased a video game and just hated it. You can't just return the game, you're stuck or you have to exchange it in for store credit. So you just have to suck it up and move on to the next game, which might not live up to your standards. Renting video games online gives you the chance to test the game first before you purchase. The companies will even allow you to purchase the games at discount rates and just keep the game if you enjoy it that much.
You can keep the games as long at you like just pay the monthly fee. If you want to play 6 to 7 games a month or more you can just pay the one time monthly fee and be done with it. You don't even have to pay for postage. That's a deal that I can get use to.
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- Design: The obvious advantage would be the fact that this 3d internet would look very much like a video game with nice graphics, in other words:
http://www.dvhardware.net/news/crysis_dx10.jpg
http://www.amitbhawani.com/Images/N/need-for-speed-prostreet1.jpg
Finally, this thing won't be that hard to create...i am telling you this as a programmer: You need c++ and something called "directx" and you should integrate with a database (storing passwords, messages, etc.). What happens to youtube, wikipedia and apple.com??? Simply - "apple.com" becomes a 3d virtual office (like a video game), wikipedia.org becomes one big 3d library and youtube...I don't know (but I'll find out...)...probably some 3d cinema?
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