Epic Games to Pay $245M for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges

Re:Epic Games to Pay $245M for Tricking Users into Making Un... by bruce511 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @12:00AM (#35177998)

I think it would change, but Rent is also not the right word.

I'm familiar with Rent and I intuit what it means. I have access to an asset for a limited time, and then I can choose to continue renting it, or not. The decision is in my hands.

License might be a better word. Because what they're selling is a "one time payment for use of this asset for an undetermined amount of time" - that's not "buy" but it's also not "rent".

When my license ends it's likely I can't get another. Certainly its not my decision to make.

The period of the license us unknown - till you block my account, till you go under, till you decide this service is no longer available, till _your_ license-to-license expires, and so on.

So yeah, I don't think it's Rent.

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Re:Epic Games to Pay $245M for Tricking Users into Making Un... by Dylan16807 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:58AM (#35178644)

> then I can choose to continue renting it, or not. The decision is in my hands.

That is not implied by the term rent. Very often rentals are for a fixed amount of time. Especially for video game rentals, back when they were common.

I think rent implies you have limited control better than license does.

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