Comments on: GameFly Rentals Are No Netflix

By: Paul Zero

Paul Zero — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:25:52 +0000

Well, I’ve been using GameFly for a couple of months now and rented a few games. They consistently send me games 6 or 7 in my queue, never anything higher than that, even if everything has “high availability”.

Their ability to recommend games I’ll like is also non-existent.

By: WiiVee

WiiVee — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:16:42 +0000

I hear what you’re saying. I’d give em a couple months and see what you think. Having used them before in the early days I think you’ll notice a pretty significant change for the better. Just manage your queue and keep it clean and you should do fine.

The $6.95 thing is a sign up promo actually. Right now it’s $6.95 for the first month and then goes to $15.95 there after or whatever your plan is. I’m sure they’re doing that with an eye on the economy and the holidays coming up and all. Seems logical.

You know Gamefly is taking game trades now right?

By: Paul Zero

Paul Zero — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:49:58 +0000

$6.95 would be nice, but the cost is $15.95 per month, plus tax. I’m glad to hear you’ve had a better experience, because it gives me hope.

My intention is to try out the service and see how fast they manage to get me games, and whether they can manage to get me new releases. This post was based on my initial experience this time around. If they exceed my expectations and do better, I will gladly write a more pleasant post.

If they don’t, I’ll find another way to play new games. I’ve been thinking about looking into GameStop’s trade-in program to see if it’s realistic for me to buy a game on release day, play it through, and trade it in for the next one…

By: WiiVee

WiiVee — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:18:33 +0000

What is it these days to sign up? Like $6.95 or something? I noticed that the other day actually. I’ve had Gamefly from the beginning… the early years… and I gotta say, I’ve only seen the service evolve. I’ve been extremely pleased with it actually.
I’m not sure about the warning you mention getting… that’s a new one, but I usually only ever keep about 5 or 6 games in my queue at a time and never have a problem if that’s helpful to know. I hear you on not necessarily being able to scrape up 10 games you want to play at any given time so I rarely have that many in there. Actually, pretty much never. Anyway, I’ve had the last 5 new release games in my queue ship on the day of release which makes me a very happy guy. Their whole system has greatly improved across the board from the earlier days. With 4 distro centers now and new release games in quantity ready to ship I couldn’t be happier.

By: Pinkkis

Pinkkis — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:51:07 +0000

Shame the service isn’t that good. Though I could say also, QQ more, I wish I had anything close to that here in Europe. :D