About eight months ago I won a gift card for $100 at my company and couldn’t think of the best way to spend it, my wife had told me to try GameFly instead of just buying 2 Wii games, that would give me about 6 months of Wii Game rentals which means I would be able to play and enjoy dozens of games instead of just two.
I enjoyed GameFlyâ„¢ so much that when my gift card expired I renewed the service and keep paying the monthly fee, I have the two at a time plan and primarily use it for Wii games but will include PS3 games when I get my PS3 sometime next year. The plan is so simple and works like Netflix or other rental plans, you simply build your queue of games and they arrive to you in the order you queued them (as long as they are available, or the next one in the list ships).
Here is my current game queue:
The quality of the games is good to fair, out of the 32 game I rented, only 3 had such badly damaged discs that I had to return them for replacements. But this has happened with Netflix and Blockbuster Total Access as well. I was one of those people who would buy one Wii game every three or four months and play it until I beat it, when I beat it I rarely would touch the same game again and would wind up trading three or four of them in for a swap at GameTrade, or even using SwapTree online to trade Wii games with other people.
With the GameFly subscription I am now able to rent kids games for my little ones and all the games I want and not have to worry about how long I can keep it, I have kept Wii Punchout for over 2 months now and still play it. While other games I play for a few hours and if I don’t enjoy the game, I just send it back within a few days or a week.
GameFly is perfect for parents who have children that beat games in hours, you can simply have a 3 or 4 at a time queued list and your kids can get new games every week and beat them almost as fast as they keep on coming. This is ideal and could save you hundreds of dollars if your kids play console games all the time and you actually buy them every few weeks or month. Just have your kid do chores around the house to earn the GameFly subscription and it is an even trade.
I use GameFlyâ„¢ myself and could recommend it more, there is instructions for the games on the site, they sort by recommendations, give reviews, let you queue games not yet release and so much more. The only time I think GameFly wouldn’t be used for a game is if the game came with a physical accessory like Wii Fit with the Balance Board, or Guitar Hero 5 with the Equipment, in those cases you need to purchase the game to get the hardware that comes with it. For all other games that don’t have any physical accessories that are required I highly recommend you use GameFly. Again, I am a 8 month subscriber and wouldn’t purchase another Console Game unless it required an accessory. -Dragon Blogger
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October 11th, 2009 at 8:58 am
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October 15th, 2009 at 5:09 am
GameFly is perfect for the parents who have children
that beat games in hours.i also use GameFly.
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October 26th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Yes it is perfect to us, we have two childrens john and milton, the game has exellent quality, i am monthly subscriber actually. i got good service from them, some times i got exchanged for my damaged cd’s
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October 27th, 2009 at 3:39 am
I also recommend GameFly, I also love how easy it is to navigate around. Most sites are all over the place.
I also have kids and they go through games like there is no tomorrow.
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October 28th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
It does seems like a brilliant idea, and not just for people with children! It’s a shame there isn’t a similar service in the UK.
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October 30th, 2009 at 9:14 am
With the rate of so many gamers who are beating games within hours, it is a no surprise that the game rental service industry is making dimes!
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May 5th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
They now have advanced parental controls so that parents can let their kids pick the games themselves!
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May 6th, 2010 at 4:54 am
GameFly sounds like a really great service for people who beat games quickly and then forget about the game and buy new ones. This service can allow people to save money while having an unlimited supply of games available to them at a reasonable cost. Thanks for the review.
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May 19th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Very nice idea for the casual gamers indeed.I do think though that the feeling of having a collection is a bit too overwhelming for me to do that.Nice review:)
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