JazzB1987 said:
If I rent a game for 2 dollars do I get 60 in value? I dont think so.
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It's hard to compare a simple one-two night rental to a "it's yours until you stop being a member" type service. Although I do treat many of these short games as rentals (100%ing them within a few days), some linger on my systems much longer and reside amongs the titles I've paid for. I sunk about 40 hours into Rogue Legacy before 100%ing it, and that's something you can't do with a $2 rental.
And that's before getting into the idea of paying $20 for a digital game, 100%ing it in a few days, and then never looking at it again. Yeah, you may as well have rented it and not given the developers any money for their work, but if it's digital only there really wasn't an option for that in the first place.
That said, I dislike calling these games "free," and I think the annual "OMG, PS+ provided about $1000 worth of content last year!" articles are somewhat disingenous fanboy ammo.