The death of the game rental stores

I'm saddened by the downfall of retailers like Hollywood Video and Blockbuster. I've had many good memories there. HV in particular was my main source of VG rentals and Game Crazy my bought games. Anyone else gonna miss those stores?

I'm saddened by the downfall of retailers like Hollywood Video and Blockbuster. I've had many good memories there. HV in particular was my main source of VG rentals and Game Crazy my bought games. Anyone else gonna miss those stores?

Not really.  I haven't rented a game or movie in ages.

The fuck am I going to due with my Gamecrazy membership card it doesn't expire till October.

I also miss renting games for the most part. but the place i rented them from, closed down a long time ago. My parent works at a video store where i can get them for free, but there's no journey involved on the way to the store :(

Man i hope gamestop goes next. But that wont happen for a long time.

If my local stores could get more games to rent in a timely fashion, I would totally rent there.  Why does no one have Fallout 3: GOTY for rent around here?! 

I had a Game Access (like gamefly) account a while ago, 
But other than that I haven't rented a game in about 10 years

I don't even buy games at stores anymore. Amazon has made sure of that (Tax free and release date delivery for a dollar, what's not to love about Amazon?). It's just easier since I can't drive and I don't have to wait for the one Wal-Mart employee in the electronics section to show up with a key just to get my copy of Dead Rising 2 out.

I have never rented a game in my life and I stopped trading in games a long time ago since I always wanted to play them again after I got rid of them. 

As long as Rogers Video is around, I'll be okay. I rent games practically every weekend.

I'm always baffled when I see people on the internet dismissing the relevance of video rental stores. In Canada, people frequently visit Blockbuster and Rogers Video, although it might have something to do with the fact that we don't have Hulu, Gamefly, a good iTunes video store, or non-streaming Netflix (Netflix itself is really new up here).

The blockbuster by my house is run by a bunch of cocks, so that kind of spoiled any goodwill I had towards that company.

Yes, I will miss them. I used to live really close to a Hollywood Video, and got games from there all the time. When I was younger my grandmother used to rent games for us on occasion too (Sweet deal).

I use to rent from Movie Gallery, then I got Gamefly. Now I just buy from Walmart

I still rent dvds from a video store and I think the ones in my area are doing alright.

I'm not too nostalgic because systems like Steam are so much more convenient than having to deal with physical media. It's the same reason I wasn't crushed when Newegg pwned CompUSA.

Renting was the underpining of my childhood so it is a shame. Not sure whether its dying over here (UK) too but...
Im surprised XBL havent jumped on the hole in the market and started a rental service seperate from demos and what not. Im sure theyd make a decent amount. Charge a certain amount for say...3 hours of gameplay (or less if its a short game), delete their copy after its done, put up a tonne of ads about buying the full copy. Could be profitable. If not hghly piratable.

i live in scotland and we still have  Blockbuster running strong and we also have major places like hmv and game all doing amazingly well 
if it only a british thing there still surving so well ? 

I dont care in the slightest. Getting games delivered with no late fees is way better.

i'm going to kind of miss them. sometimes it was good to rent games. i haven't done it in a while. the problem is that they barely had any new games on the release. i would have to wait like a month for a new game to be available.

I'll miss Game Crazy.  I use Gamefly for rentals.

Gamefly > Blockbuster
Netflix > Blockbuster
 
So no.

Nope. I have not been to one in over a decade. I went in to one a few years back, for old times sake, and realized that there was nothing there that I hadn't already played or had no interest in playing. When you were a kid you could find games you never heard of, but in this day and age, with all the websites out there, you know every game that is going to get made years in advance so it's next to impossible to find something special anymore.

" Man i hope gamestop goes next. But that wont happen for a long time. "

I welcome all physical stores. Due to the fact that the internet is turning us into lazy people. That means I should get off of here and talk to some real people.