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Redbox now has video games

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.MintBerryCrunch
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 http://www.redbox.com/release_20110428

Starting last Friday over 21,000 redbox stations now feature video game rentals for just $2 a day.

Jun 21 2011 9:08AM
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.Apex.
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how does that work, what makes you have to bring it back
Jun 21 2011 9:47AM
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.MintBerryCrunch
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A 50 dollar fee
Jun 21 2011 9:56AM
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.Apex.
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oh so you have to use a credit card?
Jun 21 2011 9:58AM
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.Apex.
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Well 1 i dont rent movies but i suppose it'd be because they have all my information thus can track me. But that just looks like a vending machine which don't know shit bout me
Jun 21 2011 10:00AM
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.MintBerryCrunch
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yeah when u rent the movie/game you have to use a credit card and type in your email address. Then if you don't return it they charge you a fee of lile 25 for dvds, 40 for blue rays, and 50 for games now
Jun 21 2011 10:05AM
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bangarangmules
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Wow I just go pretty excited, but is two dollars a day for rental really that good? Like what is that gamefly thing?
Jun 21 2011 10:47AM
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.MintBerryCrunch
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now that i think about it youre right, 2 bucks a day is kinda expensive. lile if u rent a movie for 1 dollar a day you just watch it and return it, but people wanna keep games for at least a few days. good point
Jun 21 2011 10:53AM
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RubberSoul
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yeah i mean 2 bucks a day isnt terrific but there are not rental places around me, and im not about to sign up for gamefly when the only games i play are shooters and skate, so i think it's good news
Jun 21 2011 10:54AM
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bangarangmules
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I guess it all depends on what kind of game or how hardcore a gamer you are. Like some people beat campaigns in one sitting or at least a day or two. If you're gaming like that it's probably a really good deal. I would just want to play on live too. Maybe I'm just not the renting kind of guy.
Jun 21 2011 10:54AM
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rent game for one day
download game on hard drive
return game
play as much as you want...
profit???
Jun 21 2011 1:46PM
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JaayLaay
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Thats not how it works... you download it to your hard drive and it makes it run faster and such. The video game market would drop if every xbox was able to download games to its harddrive with out buying them. YES i do know that you can tamper with your xbox and make it do that haha.
Jun 21 2011 1:52PM
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.AR6rider.
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Even if you download the game on your hard drive I think you still have to have the disc in the tray for it to play.
Jun 21 2011 1:58PM
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Chubz.
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correct.
Jun 21 2011 2:02PM
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B-runge
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this is true.
but say you just got a new game and someone bumped your xbox while it was in and it got one of those circles and no longer works, you could rent a working one, upload it to your hard drive then use the old circular scratched disk to play it off the hard drive
Jun 21 2011 2:10PM
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