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I'm afraid that the connotations around rent (namely monthly payments) would only encourage the worst publishers to only go further.

• ronsor 2y ago
  No one is renting a game for $70/month.
  • warkdarrior 2y ago
    Not yet!
    • rvnx 2y ago
      Absolutely! Markets evolve, see, for example, nobody was willing to pay on things like Siri, and now millions of folks are spending 25 USD/month on Siri+. EDIT: sorry, just came from the future.
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  • Foobar8568 2y ago
    Not sure of the cost of MMORPG, but at one stage they were like $12-$14, and Everquest even had a server that was lived for a couple of years, legend, where it was like $40/month, a bit pay-to-win server...I mean with a better CS support.
    • NikkiA 2y ago
      > but at one stage they were like $12-$14 they (the ones that are subscription) still are. And most of them have micro-transactions on top of that as well. Some will give you a (very) limited number of micro-transaction currency-units per month.
  • yencabulator 2y ago
    $50 up front and $10/month...
  • strathmeyer 2y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season_pass_(video_games) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season_pass_(video_games)
• lotsofpulp 2y ago
  Sellers are smarter than that, they already go as far as they think buyers will let them. It is the buyers who need elucidation.
  • diggan 2y ago
    If you solution involves getting the general population to do something or "be better" somehow, it's not a practical solution.