You owned nothing but you loved it. What changed Any Forums?

You have it in your hands to do what you want with it, and it can't be taken from you as easily.

I was a kid. If I wanted to buy a game I had to save up my allowance (2usd per week) to buy a game or trade in games that I loved dearly for a huge gamble. However, it was easy to talk my parents into buying me a 5 day game rental when they were renting a movie for themselves. There are many games I never would have played without rental stores and I'm grateful for the opportunity.
Pic related, it's the last game I ever rented. It was ok.

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But I did own it. I never returned anything.

I still got a shitload of VHS tapes I stole from Hollywood video.

Oh no subscription haters. He is on to us.

Ahhhh the age group that didn't quite experience the joyful 1990s but avoided the Zoomer crap.

I have so much love for the 00s but the 90s were also awesome from what I remember. Everything was super colorful, especially in the malls and cities. People were happier too. Maybe it's just my perception since I was only a tiny child back then.

Why do you keep shilling this cocksmoker? It was literally just try before you buy.

boomoids are hypocritical retards

trying to make people accept gamepass and other shit by reminding you of the past

>Maybe it's just my perception since I was only a tiny child back then
That's pretty much it. The climate of fear that came to fruition with 9/11 was already in the slow cooker. See: L.A. Riots, Waco, Oklahoma City, the Embassy Bombings, Columbine, U.S.S. Cole, etc.

Somehow i can justify a 2-day physical rental but not a 2-day digital rental

I'm a zoomer who remembers the 00s but I prefer the 90s.

I'll bet your dad was one of those trailerpark white trash that would "rent" something, only to never give it back

Sometimes it’s well made enough to be worth playing twice or more in the future
Not consecutively for months on end mind you, I mean the kind of game good enough to keep and revisit when you get older when your tastes aren’t enough for modern games, or if the industry is failing depending on perspective

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Owning was always better.

Even as a kid I knew blockbuster was expensive and not truly worth the value you were getting

it was a guilty pleasure

nah, it was great dude. I had a great time. I was teenager back then and skate everyday and played house shows every weekend. houses were cheap so you could rent whatever pretty easily with your bros.

>i would rather play new games than stockpiling plastic boxes on my shelves
sure you do microshit

I used to drive to different towns and rent games from different Blockbusters and never return them.

Not him but my dad would burn every blockbuster dvd he rented, only to never watch a single one of them. Years later he told me he doesn't like rewatching movies lmao

I knew several people that did this and Blockbuster took them to court. They had to pay attorney fees AND fees to replace the tapes they never returned, which was like $100 per tape because that's what BB paid with the whole revenue sharing model.

The pay model is different. There's still video rental places, and I still go because I'm paying per game rather than the entire subscription for games I don't like

>Mom would let me rent a video game once a week
>Always looked forward to it
>Was obsessed with Blockbuster

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, it's weird how you look back and think "Damn, things in the 90's and early/mid 2000's were just so much better." Of course I still think that's nothing but nostalgia. To me, things were better 15 years ago, but I can't say that concretely, that's just my personal feelings.

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>le you will own nothing
Just kill yourself my man

>You owned nothing but you loved it.
Blockbuster gave you the option to buy VHS, OP.

Yeah, a major difference is blockbuster had new and varied titles while gamepass is filled with $5 on sale indie shit. Admittedly the game you actually wanted would likely already be rented out at BB

>try it before you buy it
OP you still live of their income don't you.

Do zoomers actually believe this? That rental stores and us choking on cloud versions and streaming services are at all the same thing?

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You're retarded.
You rented a game for the weekend. If it was bad you were only out 4 dollars. If it was good and you beat it then that's awesome and it's not like you're going to be playing the game more than that one time anyway.
If it was good and you want to play it more then you found it and bought it.

And fir movies the same sort of thing. You're only going to watch the movie like once. Most people I knew only owned vhs tapes of like kid's movies for the most part because only small kids want to obsessively watch things over and over again.

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Of course they did. What the retards itt spewing
>dont return it lmao
dont realize is that because it's a physical item, not returning it is actual theft