LogFAQs > #926570742

I suspect most of the industry is fairly neutral about rental stores. The renters themselves still buy games after all, and for any company that has DLC it can mean that more people might get at least some of the DLC while they have it rented.

Players who like a game they rent may also buy a game they otherwise wouldn't have. Which either would be from the renter (i.e. Gamefly's keep, and if new potentially encouraging the renter to get more copies), or digitally (in which case its a new copy being bought by the player).

Its mostly the physical rental store (as in, the store itself being a physical place) that is really dying out though. GameFly seems to be doing fairly well.
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