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No, you're right. And combined with the easy refund you get from Steam for example, which would make it basically a trial period, there are a lot of possibilities.

I was thinking more about very long games that you're not sure you really will be convinced after only 2 hours. On a Persona for example, 2 hours is nothing, you're not even going to pass the tutorial.

Of course a demo is not forced to be at the start of the game, but some games are hard to showcase ๐Ÿ˜…

On the other hand, I'm just realizing that we are talking about an actual rental model, which we don't really have at the moment. Gamepass is a subscription model, which is quite different (and not in a good way)

So yeah an actual renting model could be cool, depending on its pricing of course.