Gamefly - Blu-ray Forum

jomari · 10-24-2008, 08:35 PM

First off, i joined them a long time ago, and well, didnt like the experience that much. maybe i got lemoned so to speak.

Nowadays, im just curious considering my options.

1. Hows the service?
2. is it worth it?
3. how can i locate their 'drop off points' like netflix does in santa clara have?

Any thoughts?

surfdude12 · 10-24-2008, 08:40 PM

personally, it wasn't for me.

i found that i either (1) didn't play the games regular enough to be worth it - left them around the house, or (2) played them too much - to get my money's worth

-either way, if i've kept one game 2 months, i could have bought it. this happened too often for me. when i bought a game i liked, i didn't feel that (play it - you're paying for it) pressure.

jswilli1 · 10-24-2008, 08:50 PM

My wife asked me about joining gamefly but I thought the price was a little steep just to rent 1 or 2 games at a time. We currently have the Blockbuster All Access pass which allows us rent two items at a time for one monthly price. This access works for Blu's, PS3 games, WII games, etc and is around ~$28. It works great for us since the store close to us has a great selection of Blu's and PS3 games to rent. Gamefly is a just a few dollars cheaper than BB but does not allow you to rent Blu's and you have to do it through the mail.

dk3dknight · 10-24-2008, 09:13 PM

Its great if your looking for old games but new games good luck...

I consider the service to be > netflix

Jamespic1118 · 10-24-2008, 11:10 PM

If you buy games a lot I think gamefly is worth the monthly fee. There's 4 games coming out really soon I want to buy, and instead of buying them at 60$ each, I buy them for 40- 45 or so. Saving 15-20 on each game. Plus helps you weed out the bad ones. I would have bought Haze when it came out, I got it from gamefly sent it back 2 days later.

bilbravo · 10-24-2008, 11:11 PM

I don't know how long ago you had it, but they have added a 2nd shipping center. Basically now it's one west coast one east coast.

I cancelled it because we just have too many things going on (Netflix, XM, etc) but I never had issues getting games, even new ones. The turn-around time was longer than Netflix. Generally if I mailed a game Monday I'd get one back on Friday. I usually kept games 2-3 weeks, so I probably was higher in their queue for newer games. I don't know how their algorithm works for that sort of thing.

All in all I think it's worth what they're asking, particularly because the only place to rent games around here is Blockbuster and they only ever seem to have 2-3 games I'd be interested in and they have 1 copy of each.

Blu Jacket · 10-25-2008, 03:00 AM

I didn't like Gamefly at all. During my trial membership the games came quite quickly. I would return a game in the mail Monday and have my next one in the mail on Friday. Once I started paying regular fees, the waiting stretched out to 2 weeks of turn around time (this was during the spring, so it was not holiday rush). When I canceled they immediately canceled my membership, even though I'd paid for 2 more weeks, and told me to send the one game I had back immediately. If they didn't get it in 7 days, they were going to charge me full price even though I could have used the "keep it" option to get it for less. But, I felt better knowing that, thanks to a snafu on their part which I tried to rectify, I walked away with a free copy of a game.

School · 10-25-2008, 02:01 PM

i personnaly love gamefly its great.. Since you are already paying about 22 a month for the service once you receive the games you can buy them for around 40 bucks asap. i never have a problem getting new games right away you just have to be on top of it . if you have the 2 game plan make sure you have only one game out when the new game you want comes out and make sure its number one in your Q.. also if you have been there over a year you get 5 bucks off every three months and 10percnet always. its great

School · 10-25-2008, 02:19 PM

now they have 3 locations that games are shipped from ... CA, TX and PA

Mr. J · 10-25-2008, 02:55 PM

I've been a member since Jan 08 and I love it! I purchase Brand New Games from them for around $40-$45! It's all about timing and I always get new games if i want them!

School · 10-25-2008, 03:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jayvo2009

I've been a member since Jan 08 and I love it! I purchase Brand New Games from them for around $40-$45! It's all about timing and I always get new games if i want them!

+1

Wreck · 10-25-2008, 05:00 PM

Yeah man there are tricks to it ....

if u want that new game coming out .... make every game in ur gameQ games that are NOT OUT ... so say its Friday... game comes out tuesday ... update ur gameQ to give gamefly NO CHOICE but to send u the new one ... as they will get their game by tuesdy and then ship u the new one.

I got Batman Lego and Star Wars force unleashed from them on Release day... with option to buy TFU at 47 (free shipping, and they give u the case without crappy gamestop stickers on them!) or batman lego at 34-37?

Im pretty sur they got 4 shipping centers though ... at the least, TX, PA, CA, FL

u get 5 free gamefly bucks every 3 months, and 5% game purchases at a 6months and 10% at 12

it allows u to get old games on the cheap if u add up all those discounts.

never have recieved a scratched game, and every game I bought the case has been flawless.

Im 6 months + into them, alot of times I feel like canceling, just cause I just bought like 6 games and have enough games to last me quite the while.... but the discounts and promotions will kick even more ass in another 6

17 bucks a month with tax ... for 1 game out , is what I do ... I get 3-5 game rentals a month, and I dont gotta drive to no BB and stand in line and wonder If its in stock.

they got promotions always going on if u sign people up too.

Tracer · 10-25-2008, 10:07 PM

All good info here, Gamefly has been perfect for me. They are the biggest company doing online game rentals, and the most reputable.
I got my first game 2 days after I singed up and they've been consistently taking only 2 days to arrive. I rent for my Wii and Xbox360. Like everyone is saying, They have every game and great option like being able to buy games you have rented. Games sales rock too, they have No More Heros for $18 now! crazy. Plus the 10% off member discount. Take me also 2-3 days to get a game, which is fine, I've played about 9 games in about 3 months, way more than i would have without GF.

Start with the trial, like i did, if you sign up through the Superfan contest you get entered to win $1000.http://www.gamefly.com/superfan nice little bonus

LynxFX · 10-25-2008, 10:45 PM

I've had gamefly for almost 2 years now and it has saved me a lot of money. With the Xbox I bought around 50 games, with an average cost of $50. That is $2500 in 4 years or $625yr.

With gamefly and 2 out at a time ($24/mo) my cost was $288 for the year, and I rented 24 games. Before I would get pissed if I spent $50-60 on a game and it either sucked, or I played it once through and then never played it again. Now if I rent a game and it sucks, I send it back, no loss. Or I finish a great game in a week or two but know I would never play it again. Every once inwhile I would find a game that I really like, has tons of replayability and then I just keep it at a great discount. I got COD4 for $33 and it was brand new because I got it on release day.

In Denver the turn around was about 2-3 days with the occasional 4 day wait. Now I'm in LA and it is 1 day turn around which is great so I switched to 1 game out at a time. Prepaid for 3 months and it is only $14.60/mo.

If you are doing it to save money you really have to view it as a long term thing and average, not look at it on a game to game or month to month basis. There were some times when I had the same game for 2 or even 3 months and yeah it would have probably been cheaper to just buy it, but then one month I might get through 7 or 8 games.

The 10% off (after a year of membership) and $5 every 3 months is nice too. The $5 expire after 3 months, but there is a 1 day overlap with your next $5 reward so for that one day you could take $10 off a game. Taking a quick glance at game costs and that would make Uncharted $21 to own or GTAIV just $19 or Haze you would still have $2.

Or if you are a multiplatform owner, Bioshock on the 360 is $8. Now that's a steal.

Mr. J · 10-25-2008, 10:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LynxFX

I've had gamefly for almost 2 years now and it has saved me a lot of money. With the Xbox I bought around 50 games, with an average cost of $50. That is $2500 in 4 years or $625yr.

With gamefly and 2 out at a time ($24/mo) my cost was $288 for the year, and I rented 24 games. Before I would get pissed if I spent $50-60 on a game and it either sucked, or I played it once through and then never played it again. Now if I rent a game and it sucks, I send it back, no loss. Or I finish a great game in a week or two but know I would never play it again. Every once inwhile I would find a game that I really like, has tons of replayability and then I just keep it at a great discount. I got COD4 for $33 and it was brand new because I got it on release day.

In Denver the turn around was about 2-3 days with the occasional 4 day wait. Now I'm in LA and it is 1 day turn around which is great so I switched to 1 game out at a time. Prepaid for 3 months and it is only $14.60/mo.

If you are doing it to save money you really have to view it as a long term thing and average, not look at it on a game to game or month to month basis. There were some times when I had the same game for 2 or even 3 months and yeah it would have probably been cheaper to just buy it, but then one month I might get through 7 or 8 games.

The 10% off (after a year of membership) and $5 every 3 months is nice too. The $5 expire after 3 months, but there is a 1 day overlap with your next $5 reward so for that one day you could take $10 off a game. Taking a quick glance at game costs and that would make Uncharted $21 to own or GTAIV just $19 or Haze you would still have $2.

Or if you are a multiplatform owner, Bioshock on the 360 is $8. Now that's a steal.

+10000000000000000 Absolutely!

Tracer · 10-27-2008, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LynxFX

I've had gamefly for almost 2 years now and it has saved me a lot of money. With the Xbox I bought around 50 games, with an average cost of $50. That is $2500 in 4 years or $625yr.

With gamefly and 2 out at a time ($24/mo) my cost was $288 for the year, and I rented 24 games. Before I would get pissed if I spent $50-60 on a game and it either sucked, or I played it once through and then never played it again. Now if I rent a game and it sucks, I send it back, no loss. Or I finish a great game in a week or two but know I would never play it again. Every once inwhile I would find a game that I really like, has tons of replayability and then I just keep it at a great discount. I got COD4 for $33 and it was brand new because I got it on release day.

In Denver the turn around was about 2-3 days with the occasional 4 day wait. Now I'm in LA and it is 1 day turn around which is great so I switched to 1 game out at a time. Prepaid for 3 months and it is only $14.60/mo.

If you are doing it to save money you really have to view it as a long term thing and average, not look at it on a game to game or month to month basis. There were some times when I had the same game for 2 or even 3 months and yeah it would have probably been cheaper to just buy it, but then one month I might get through 7 or 8 games.

The 10% off (after a year of membership) and $5 every 3 months is nice too. The $5 expire after 3 months, but there is a 1 day overlap with your next $5 reward so for that one day you could take $10 off a game. Taking a quick glance at game costs and that would make Uncharted $21 to own or GTAIV just $19 or Haze you would still have $2.

Or if you are a multiplatform owner, Bioshock on the 360 is $8. Now that's a steal.

Agreed, great explanation of the benefits of Gamefly. Really the perfect solution to gaming in a recession. You still get all play all the new games and u never pay $60 for a tilte.

Oh, anyone check out the supefan videos? I found them entertaining.

Cloud Stife:
http://gamefly.votigo.com/contests/showentry/36836

Indiana Jones:
http://gamefly.votigo.com/contests/showentry/36834

Psychonaut · 05-08-2009, 03:07 AM

I joined about a month ago and so far I'm sorely disappointed. My first game took a week to get to me. I mailed it back in on Monday and as of Friday they still have not received it. The shipping center is in Pittsburgh so it takes one day to get there, even by media mail. I had the weekend off and thought I might have something to play. If half of my membership fee is waiting for stuff to ship and receive, this company will not be getting any more of my money.

Chocolatejas · 05-08-2009, 03:12 AM

I got a free month to try it (Only reason I signed up). After month 2 I canceled. Thought it would be quick turn around like Netflix but it was not at all.

Cordre69 · 05-12-2009, 01:33 AM

I love GameFly!
I have been a member over a year and it has been great to me. I have never had to wait more than 3 days between mailing a game back and getting the next one, the price is way affordable, and it is rare that the games I want are too in-demand to find. I especially like using this for non-PS3 games so I don't have to pay for them

I recently downgraded the service to 1 game instead of 2 because my want-list was made up 90% of games not released yet. I work for Best Buy so I get a discount on GameFly service costs as well!

Cplhicks · 05-12-2009, 02:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jomari

First off, i joined them a long time ago, and well, didnt like the experience that much. maybe i got lemoned so to speak.

Nowadays, im just curious considering my options.

1. Hows the service?
2. is it worth it?
3. how can i locate their 'drop off points' like netflix does in santa clara have?

Any thoughts?

I doubt they've gotten much better. I joined them for the first time a couple months ago. Usually they serve new customers better to make a good impression, right? Not Gamefly. My first game they sent was not one I wanted. Then it took them more than 1 1/2 weeks to "receive it" back (though I sent it the next day) and send me the game I did want. Then they proceeded to say the game I wanted was out for over a month, and sent me something else I had added to the list for the heck of it. Their turn around times were slow, and their customer service would never respond to me until it had magically been taken care of already.

For example, I write to complain about the wrong game being sent-- "Oh we sent you the right one according to our records!" This after they had sent me the replacement for the wrong game I had already returned. I write to complain about the next game never getting shipped, they reply 10 minutes after it was shipped saying "our records show it has already shipped!" Yeah, sure. I cancelled it.

10-24-2008, 08:35 PM	#1
jomari Moderator Top contributor Member since:Nov 2007 Home Theater Gallery:18 Blu-ray reviews: 2 Trading Score:2	Gamefly First off, i joined them a long time ago, and well, didnt like the experience that much. maybe i got lemoned so to speak. Nowadays, im just curious considering my options. 1. Hows the service? 2. is it worth it? 3. how can i locate their 'drop off points' like netflix does in santa clara have? Any thoughts?

10-25-2008, 10:45 PM	#14
LynxFX Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jul 2007	I've had gamefly for almost 2 years now and it has saved me a lot of money. With the Xbox I bought around 50 games, with an average cost of $50. That is $2500 in 4 years or $625yr. With gamefly and 2 out at a time ($24/mo) my cost was $288 for the year, and I rented 24 games. Before I would get pissed if I spent $50-60 on a game and it either sucked, or I played it once through and then never played it again. Now if I rent a game and it sucks, I send it back, no loss. Or I finish a great game in a week or two but know I would never play it again. Every once inwhile I would find a game that I really like, has tons of replayability and then I just keep it at a great discount. I got COD4 for $33 and it was brand new because I got it on release day. In Denver the turn around was about 2-3 days with the occasional 4 day wait. Now I'm in LA and it is 1 day turn around which is great so I switched to 1 game out at a time. Prepaid for 3 months and it is only $14.60/mo. If you are doing it to save money you really have to view it as a long term thing and average, not look at it on a game to game or month to month basis. There were some times when I had the same game for 2 or even 3 months and yeah it would have probably been cheaper to just buy it, but then one month I might get through 7 or 8 games. The 10% off (after a year of membership) and $5 every 3 months is nice too. The $5 expire after 3 months, but there is a 1 day overlap with your next $5 reward so for that one day you could take $10 off a game. Taking a quick glance at game costs and that would make Uncharted $21 to own or GTAIV just $19 or Haze you would still have $2. Or if you are a multiplatform owner, Bioshock on the 360 is $8. Now that's a steal. Last edited by LynxFX; 10-25-2008 at 10:48 PM.

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10-24-2008, 08:40 PM	#2
surfdude12 Blu-ray Knight Member since:Jul 2007 Location:Club Loop Blu-ray collection:343 Blu-ray reviews:112 Trading Score:1	personally, it wasn't for me. i found that i either (1) didn't play the games regular enough to be worth it - left them around the house, or (2) played them too much - to get my money's worth -either way, if i've kept one game 2 months, i could have bought it. this happened too often for me. when i bought a game i liked, i didn't feel that (play it - you're paying for it) pressure.

10-24-2008, 08:50 PM	#3
jswilli1 Active Member Member since:Mar 2007 Location:Rio Rancho, NM Blu-ray collection:32	My wife asked me about joining gamefly but I thought the price was a little steep just to rent 1 or 2 games at a time. We currently have the Blockbuster All Access pass which allows us rent two items at a time for one monthly price. This access works for Blu's, PS3 games, WII games, etc and is around ~$28. It works great for us since the store close to us has a great selection of Blu's and PS3 games to rent. Gamefly is a just a few dollars cheaper than BB but does not allow you to rent Blu's and you have to do it through the mail.

10-24-2008, 09:13 PM	#4
dk3dknight Blu-ray Ninja Member since:May 2007 Location:Arlington, Texas PSNetwork: dk3dknight PostCount: 0001 Blu-ray collection:44 Blu-ray reviews: 2	Its great if your looking for old games but new games good luck... I consider the service to be > netflix

10-24-2008, 11:10 PM	#5
Jamespic1118 Active Member Member since:Oct 2008 Location:Manchester, CT Blu-ray collection:112 Trading Score:7	If you buy games a lot I think gamefly is worth the monthly fee. There's 4 games coming out really soon I want to buy, and instead of buying them at 60$ each, I buy them for 40- 45 or so. Saving 15-20 on each game. Plus helps you weed out the bad ones. I would have bought Haze when it came out, I got it from gamefly sent it back 2 days later.

10-24-2008, 11:11 PM	#6
bilbravo Expert Member Member since:Oct 2007 Location:MD, USA Blu-ray collection:28	I don't know how long ago you had it, but they have added a 2nd shipping center. Basically now it's one west coast one east coast. I cancelled it because we just have too many things going on (Netflix, XM, etc) but I never had issues getting games, even new ones. The turn-around time was longer than Netflix. Generally if I mailed a game Monday I'd get one back on Friday. I usually kept games 2-3 weeks, so I probably was higher in their queue for newer games. I don't know how their algorithm works for that sort of thing. All in all I think it's worth what they're asking, particularly because the only place to rent games around here is Blockbuster and they only ever seem to have 2-3 games I'd be interested in and they have 1 copy of each.

10-25-2008, 03:00 AM	#7
Blu Jacket Expert Member Member since:Feb 2008 Location:Ohio Blu-ray collection:44	I didn't like Gamefly at all. During my trial membership the games came quite quickly. I would return a game in the mail Monday and have my next one in the mail on Friday. Once I started paying regular fees, the waiting stretched out to 2 weeks of turn around time (this was during the spring, so it was not holiday rush). When I canceled they immediately canceled my membership, even though I'd paid for 2 more weeks, and told me to send the one game I had back immediately. If they didn't get it in 7 days, they were going to charge me full price even though I could have used the "keep it" option to get it for less. But, I felt better knowing that, thanks to a snafu on their part which I tried to rectify, I walked away with a free copy of a game.

10-25-2008, 02:01 PM	#8
School Power Member Member since:Dec 2007 Home Theater Gallery:11 Blu-ray collection:299 Trading Score:7	i personnaly love gamefly its great.. Since you are already paying about 22 a month for the service once you receive the games you can buy them for around 40 bucks asap. i never have a problem getting new games right away you just have to be on top of it . if you have the 2 game plan make sure you have only one game out when the new game you want comes out and make sure its number one in your Q.. also if you have been there over a year you get 5 bucks off every three months and 10percnet always. its great

10-25-2008, 02:19 PM	#9
School Power Member Member since:Dec 2007 Home Theater Gallery:11 Blu-ray collection:299 Trading Score:7	now they have 3 locations that games are shipped from ... CA, TX and PA

10-25-2008, 02:55 PM	#10
Mr. J Gaming Moderator Top contributor Member since:Jul 2008 Location:Arkham Asylum Home Theater Gallery:6 4K collection:393 Blu-ray collection:768 DVD collection:7 iTunes collection:628 Blu-ray reviews: 4 Trading Score:181	I've been a member since Jan 08 and I love it! I purchase Brand New Games from them for around $40-$45! It's all about timing and I always get new games if i want them!

10-25-2008, 05:00 PM	#12
Wreck Blu-ray Guru Member since:Jan 2008 Location:H-town To Indy PSNetwork: HERETOWRECK Trophy Level: (12) Blu-ray collection:249 Blu-ray reviews:7 Trading Score:58	Yeah man there are tricks to it .... if u want that new game coming out .... make every game in ur gameQ games that are NOT OUT ... so say its Friday... game comes out tuesday ... update ur gameQ to give gamefly NO CHOICE but to send u the new one ... as they will get their game by tuesdy and then ship u the new one. I got Batman Lego and Star Wars force unleashed from them on Release day... with option to buy TFU at 47 (free shipping, and they give u the case without crappy gamestop stickers on them!) or batman lego at 34-37? Im pretty sur they got 4 shipping centers though ... at the least, TX, PA, CA, FL u get 5 free gamefly bucks every 3 months, and 5% game purchases at a 6months and 10% at 12 it allows u to get old games on the cheap if u add up all those discounts. never have recieved a scratched game, and every game I bought the case has been flawless. Im 6 months + into them, alot of times I feel like canceling, just cause I just bought like 6 games and have enough games to last me quite the while.... but the discounts and promotions will kick even more ass in another 6 17 bucks a month with tax ... for 1 game out , is what I do ... I get 3-5 game rentals a month, and I dont gotta drive to no BB and stand in line and wonder If its in stock. they got promotions always going on if u sign people up too.

10-25-2008, 10:07 PM	#13
Tracer Junior Member Member since:Dec 2007	All good info here, Gamefly has been perfect for me. They are the biggest company doing online game rentals, and the most reputable. I got my first game 2 days after I singed up and they've been consistently taking only 2 days to arrive. I rent for my Wii and Xbox360. Like everyone is saying, They have every game and great option like being able to buy games you have rented. Games sales rock too, they have No More Heros for $18 now! crazy. Plus the 10% off member discount. Take me also 2-3 days to get a game, which is fine, I've played about 9 games in about 3 months, way more than i would have without GF. Start with the trial, like i did, if you sign up through the Superfan contest you get entered to win $1000.http://www.gamefly.com/superfan nice little bonus

05-08-2009, 03:07 AM	#17
Psychonaut Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Apr 2008 Location:Second left after Wal-Mart Blu-ray collection:111	I joined about a month ago and so far I'm sorely disappointed. My first game took a week to get to me. I mailed it back in on Monday and as of Friday they still have not received it. The shipping center is in Pittsburgh so it takes one day to get there, even by media mail. I had the weekend off and thought I might have something to play. If half of my membership fee is waiting for stuff to ship and receive, this company will not be getting any more of my money.

05-08-2009, 03:12 AM	#18
Chocolatejas Blu-ray Guru Member since:Jan 2008 Location:NH Blu-ray collection:118 Trading Score:15	I got a free month to try it (Only reason I signed up). After month 2 I canceled. Thought it would be quick turn around like Netflix but it was not at all.

05-12-2009, 01:33 AM	#19
Cordre69 Power Member Member since:Aug 2007 Location:Livermore, CA 4K collection:218 Blu-ray collection:1094 Trading Score:1	I love GameFly! I have been a member over a year and it has been great to me. I have never had to wait more than 3 days between mailing a game back and getting the next one, the price is way affordable, and it is rare that the games I want are too in-demand to find. I especially like using this for non-PS3 games so I don't have to pay for them I recently downgraded the service to 1 game instead of 2 because my want-list was made up 90% of games not released yet. I work for Best Buy so I get a discount on GameFly service costs as well!

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