Steam renting

[weels1566]

Considering the new steam family sharing and the now open access to it will we see renting services arise to borrow a library of games for a fraction of the cost of buying them and if not should such a service exist.

Just thought I'd start a discussion on an interesting topic

[Blueprint]

Considering the new steam family sharing and the now open access to it will we see renting services arise to borrow a library of games for a fraction of the cost of buying them and if not should such a service exist.

Just thought I'd start a discussion on an interesting topic

Possibly, I could see this maybe being implemented into new releases as a lot of games are quite cheap anyway.

[LogicalDrm]

As users to users would be against terms of sercive and comes with high risk of scam. So I doubt that will be allowed any time soon. But in general consept of renting games is coming. I mean we have spotify and netflix already. Cloud gaming services are already here. I can already see the time when steam becomes p2p service. Wait.. wasn't this topic of WAN show last week?

[LOST TALE]

I thought it was ranting.

[BrightCandle]

You are already just renting games on Steam. They can remove your entire collection at their pleasure, at any time for any reason. You don't own of your games on Steam, Valve owns the lot and you just have a service contract. Family sharing is meant to bring back a feature required in law in many countries which steam has illegal removed.

[Skcorpion86]

You are already just renting games on Steam. They can remove your entire collection at their pleasure, at any time for any reason. You don't own of your games on Steam, Valve owns the lot and you just have a service contract. Family sharing is meant to bring back a feature required in law in many countries which steam has illegal removed.

This is why I don't like ditital games. I will throw a fit, if any of my games leaves my Library.