Yeah, you gave it to me, awesome dude. I have had great fun playing drums on most of those songs.

Well my membership is winding down. Less than a week left. I've decided not to renew. I sent back Red Faction on Sunday as I grabbed a copy at Gamestop during their B2G1F sale. They just shipped me Velvet Assassin skipping over Ghostbusters in my queue. Here's my review:

Pros - much improvement shipping and receiving. I get a new game within 4 days. Of course, still a great way to try out new games without paying full price. Gamefly dollars gave me $5 dollars off used.



Cons - too expensive, $22 a month, and boy, that month goes by fast. Probably works great for a summer kid with tons of free time, but my gamefly games usually sat unplayed until the weekend. That's $22 bucks just gone that could have been spent on games. Also, if I buy a game brand new and play through at my leisurely pace, I could probably resell it for 40 bucks. Then I would be losing the same $22 bucks for a lot more gaming time.

Other downside is their used game store really stinks. Tons of crappy titles.

Final Thoughts -

It is hard to say if I would spend more money with Gamefly for a year vs buying my games. I get most of my titles through Gamestop's used sales so I'm paying 37 max for new titles. Then again, I just unloaded $150 bucks on that sale last weekend. That's almost 6 months of Gamefly right there!

Yeah, I just sent a game back that had been sitting here a month, unplayed. Ouch. Just like Netflix though, everything balances out since you could have a month where you are churning through them.

I've rented from gamefly for quite awhile and used to wonder if $22 / month was worth it. This usually occurred when I got busy and didn't have much time to play. At around the end of year 2, I suddenly realized that I hadn't thought about HOW MUCH I WAS SPENDING ON VIDEOS GAMES for a long long time.

So I started to think about that and realized that over a year I spend, with Gamefly, a little over $200. I do keep a game occasionally. So tack on the 2 or 3 games I buy from them a year and call it $300.

At new game prices $300 equals about 5 games. At jeffbase34's $37 a games thats about 8 games. In a year with gamefly I play 25 - 30 games easy.

Of course some I rent and send right back cause I don't like em, but then that to me is priceless in and of itself.

I think that for me is where the biggest savings comes from. There are a ton of games out there I would like to try but I know I'm not going to like all of them, or even want to replay the ones I like, so IMHO Gamefly (or something like it) just makes sense. I have thought about maybe dropping back to the 1 out plan though so that way I have to time play my backlog of games while I'm waiting on Gamefly

i think it will work better for you, the only thing is that it lasts like 3 or 4 days depending on where you are located for them to receive the game and then send it out it will take another 3 to 4 days. but other than that, i think its good

I usually get one back in around 4-5 days but less with fast return since a new one is shipped out as soon as the one I sent back hits the post office. With a two game plan though you don't worry too much since you can play one while another is on the way. as i mentioned, i try to focus on how much i play year around and how much i pay for that. numbers-wise i can't find a better deal right now.

Looks like I am on for another month. I went to cancel, and they offered me another month at 14.95 for 2 games! If the Gamefly store would offer better titles, I would really be sold on the service, but it seems like for a year, the store only carries sub par titles like Fracture.

If you're in the Philly area, it's safe to use Gamefly again: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/16/ov...y-usps-worker/

I joined Gamefly a couple of weeks ago to try it out with the 10-day free trial offer. One of my first selections took 7 days to arrive. Not a good first impression!

I'm giving them another month to see if it's worth it. I returned one game 6 days ago and they haven't received it yet, though, so it's not looking good.

Welcome to Gamefly!

That's why I left.

I have had 13 games in my gameq for about 10 days now and I haven't received a single shipment yet. The top of my screen says: You have no games out. Add titles to your GameQ now!

Are you fucking kidding me?!

Occasionally I have issues like that, and when I do, I email them to complain and they give me a credit. So if it's been 10 days, you should mention that and they should give you 10 days credit. It sucks, but I've learned to live with it.

I can still get games two days after they come out as long as I setup my queue correctly. This doesn't always work, but it does about 95% of the time. Now if its something thats been out for a short time (Uncharted 2 and Demon's Souls, I'm looking at you!) then the wait is going to be long unfortunately.

Gamefly has got to be the most bipolar company in existence.

My experience with them was identical, yet there are so many others who swear by them, instead.

They finally received my return and shipped the first game of my first official month as a member. That was 11 days ago. No game yet.

My first official month as a member will be my last official month as a member. I can buy most of the games in my queue used for less than the cost of the membership, if I'm only going to get about one a month due to turnaround times.

My turnaround is usually decent. Not great, but doable. I kept my last game (Wheelman) for a month which wasn't optimal(or usual for that matter, but ODST, Beatles, and GH5 kept me busy). Still I figure, it was cheaper than buying used at this point and letting it sit on my shelf un-played until there is no resale value.