I've been percolating over this idea off and on for a few days now, but I wonder if we've lost something from fazing out of rental stores like Blockbuster.
Plenty of people talk a lot about how these huge backlogs of games that they haven't started or finished, and there have been many reason put forth for why this happens like having less time due to growing up and/or changing interests, but I wonder if this issue used to have a release valve in the form of game rentals.
There used to be a time where you could spend some money to try out a game for a weekend and for those couple of days you could hang in with it and see if it was a good game or not, or just whether it could hold your interest and if not then you returned it and that was that.
Now though we don't have the option to just try out a game and so we end up with these huge back logs of games that we may have thought looked interesting but could never keep our attention. I'm not saying this is the magic bullet for why this happens but I'm wondering if anyone else thought this could be part of why this problem has gotten worse.
Plenty of people talk a lot about how these huge backlogs of games that they haven't started or finished, and there have been many reason put forth for why this happens like having less time due to growing up and/or changing interests, but I wonder if this issue used to have a release valve in the form of game rentals.
There used to be a time where you could spend some money to try out a game for a weekend and for those couple of days you could hang in with it and see if it was a good game or not, or just whether it could hold your interest and if not then you returned it and that was that.
Now though we don't have the option to just try out a game and so we end up with these huge back logs of games that we may have thought looked interesting but could never keep our attention. I'm not saying this is the magic bullet for why this happens but I'm wondering if anyone else thought this could be part of why this problem has gotten worse.