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MS gamepass is essentially that now

• sitzkrieg 4y ago
  ehh having to use it on a machine that has ms store enabled and run their fat client to download 50s of gb games is quite different in many ways. while months at a time for a game is nice it feels more as a data collection spigot and loss leader for onboarding users, vs a fun weekend rental
• giobox 4y ago
  Kind of.... My local video rental place back in the day stocked just about every release for all the major consoles though. You weren't limited in scope in the same way GamePass will limit you to only GamePass supported Xbox/PC games. I don't think there is a modern service equivalent to peak video-store era game rentals, at least none spring to mind right now.
  • WorldMaker 4y ago
    Stadia tried, hah. GameTap was an interesting failure, too.