Gamefly

[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.