G35ff
Shared on Mon, 07/02/2007 - 05:51Alas, I am sure you all at some point buy a game and after spending your hard earned money you come to realize the game really wasn't what you expected let alone you probably thought damn I wish I didn't waste my hard earned dollars on this game! Well after constant complaining about me spending $60 per game from the wife. I decided to join GameFly. At first I was very impressed how well their website was setup and their "GAME Q". The "Game Q" is a list of game you would like to rent, so in theory you put your games in sequential order on which ones you would like to receive and they sent it out to you? Well it worked well the first few games I asked for since they weren't the top new releases. After about 2 1/2 months I blew through games pretty quickly. Hell, I even bought a few used games from them since they were way less expensive than the local GameStop retail stores. Well, the story saddened after the 2 1/2 months I started requesting newer games - and for 2 weeks straight I kept receiving games from the BOTTOM of my QUEUE. They would show what game were in inventory and I did have a few games in the middle of my queue but they decided to send me the games at the bottom of my queue. That being said I wrotre them a nasty letter asking why they kept doing this - I get the standardized form letter of they didn't have any of the games at the top of my queue so they picked whatever they had in inventory. Well, I didn't think that was fair, so I cancelled my membership. It turned out that Gamefly only ships from California. They did open another warehouse in the midwest but I never received any games from them. I am now a member of GottaPlay whom has many locations throught the country and as bad as their website is compared to Gamefly - and even though they have many more distribution points still the new game availability is still as bad as gamefly. The fees are basically the same as well. 2 Games out is like $22.00/month. Figure if you are avid gamer and play daily you can rent about 4 games a month. If you had to buy those games that's $240/month!!!! The good thing is that if you like the game (and it is available for sale) you can purchase it at a used price. So all around they are very good plans. Overall, I think Gamefly is the better service since they offer you rewards and discounts on used games after being a member over time. I wanna give Gottaplay a chance to see how well their service is since I just became a member about 9 days ago. I will keep you all updated on how well their service is.
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Submitted by jikado on Mon, 07/02/2007 - 06:02
Submitted by dos on Mon, 07/02/2007 - 07:44