Game Fly

[ericamanda01]

My DH want's this for Christmas and I was wondering if anyone used it and liked it, or had problems. Thanks

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I used to subscribe. It works reasonably well. The turnaround isn't as fast as Netflix. I dropped out because I'm not much of a gamer and my kids tend to stick to a small number of heavily used games. If you like to play a lot of different games or at least test a lot of games before buying them, it's a good deal. My more serious gamer friends all subscribe.

 

[desertgirl]

My son (9) subscribes and we really like it. We have saved a lot of money by being able to try games this way. It's amazing how many games aren't nearly as playworth as you'd think. Now, even if my son isn't crazy about the game, he'll play it for a weekend and send it back for a new one. The ones he falls in love with, he puts on his Christmas/birthday list or saves his money in order to buy it himself.

As MarkBarbieri says the turnaround isn't as fast as Netflix, but it is still a value to us.

Kerry

 

[feenie]

We just canceled our membership. We enjoyed the service, but the turnaround becase of where we live in relation to the distribution centers was about a full week. (if we put a game in the mail first thing Monday morning, most of the time we would not have a new game until the following week on Monday)
they have "fast return" for some games, but it only worked for us 2x in the 7 months we were members.
The other complaint that I had was we joined to try new games before buying them, but unless you timed your return just right, it would be months before you got a newer release. We were able to get two brand new games, but they were really low on our Queue because we wanted other games more that had been out longer.
It was beneficial for us because we did find a few games that we thought we would love and want to buy, and realize there was not a lot of repeat play in them. So just having them for a weekend or two was fine.
We may join again in the summer when we have more time to try things out and hopefully all the games that were on our list when we canceled will be avalible by then

 

[stsomewhere]

I just got my DS-11 a membership to Blockbuster. He can rent 1 game at a time. It is $21.99 for 30 days. He kept 1 game for 20 minutes and back we went to exchange it .