Gamefly sucks. News At 11.

So I decided to try and sign up for Gamefly again to see if I could actually get any games this time around to try before buying them. I am trying to cut down on buying so many games that end up in a back log, and said to myself... "Well Ut, you want to get Nier, Nioh, Persona 5, The Last Guardian, etc and try about 5-6 others... let's give it a shot to see how well it works. So I signed up but already did a trial - so my bad on just not making a new email and getting another trial (If that would have worked) so I plunked down $22.95 for 2 games out at a time for a month and lets see how many I can burn through or at least try out.

I log in and see that damn near every game I want is low/medium availability. Nioh, a game that launched almost 3 months ago is still medium which means it has a 50%-74% chance to actually reach me. Nier, low. Persona, haha good luck, Yazuka 0, Medium... So I threw in Dishonored 2 which actually shipped today (I signed up Saturday and had 5 days of no games I wanted being shipped, and that was with the Last Guardian being high availability as well. Christ, I didn't even care to play Dishonored 2 but I guess I will give it a shot. Which is hilarious in of itself because there is a free trial this weekend for Dishonored 2 and the first 3 missions.

This service sucks ass. Not only do they have out of stock games just launched and do not anticipate demand (Something I can see happening though so it's forgiven) they also do not have stock of games that are 3 flipping months old. I went 5 days without anything even being shipped with half those games at Medium/High availability. But hey, Dwarves on PS4 is available right now!

So I did some other digging for fun. Holy hannah. A shit ton of games are medium/low, some very low, very few are high, and only complete shit titles are available for rent now. Come on. And the best part? Before you log in and own a subscription, they do not show you the availability! Ass meet Plunger.

Vorph I know you use this service. What is your trick to actually even make it worth while? I want to play Nier and Nioh before I land in the nursing home while trying this new scheme of mine. I have added the new Star Trek VR to Queue, but that isn't out yet. How do I get figured into that equation? First one to try and rent the game is automatically first in the shipping queue for games not out yet?

Are these guys tied into the game industry at all or into any other pockets? Because so far this place seems like a total fucking sham and all it will do is drive me to just go buy the game so I can actually play it. Which I can trade in games at Best Buy, use Gamers Club, get the games I want when I want to play them, and probably end up saving money in the long run when compared to a $22.95 a month service.

Yeah I was going to do this, but Nier, Guardian, Nioh, none of those are at Redbox for me. (Or for what seems like ever in stock)

zombiewizardhawk said:

So you want to pay 20 bucks a month and play every game the day it releases and expect them to have enough copies in stock to make it happen.... sounds like a good way for a business to not be a business any more.

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No. What I do want is to pay $22.95/month and have access to at least a game that's 3 months old. How about I give them nothing? That's a good business model too. Because I can buy the damn game on sale for the price of a subscription by the time the thing becomes available on this horseshit ran service.

Looking at reviews, it looks like these idiots should just go out of business.

Hey Zombie I'll tell you what. Let's go out and buy 2 copies of each game starting now. We will charge $22.95 a month and rent out those two copies and we will just collect the cash as they wait for the copies to come back to us to send to the other 2 suckers while 89 wait.

We should own a private island in the bahamas within a week.

zombiewizardhawk said:

Lets play hypothetical: They pay $40 per copy of a game they get. 22.95 lets you get 2 games per month so that's about 11.50 per game. That means they need to get 4 months of subs per copy of a game they get just to break even. You are mad about a game not available 3 months after it came out (instantly available even, instead of just "soon"), they aren't even at their break-even subs yet hypothetically for that copy of the game. Should they just drop the cash on 5million copies of the game and hope to make their money back off of subs who want it? You're not even talking about games that get mediocre reception or attention, you literally listed off every game that 99% of console gamers can't stop raving about but you want to get it for 11 bucks instead of 60.

Or you could show me where Nioh is on sale for 12 bucks at the 3 month mark, that'd work too, or P5 or any of the other games you listed.

PS: Don't try to pull the "but that's 11.50 every month!" because you just said you subbed back up for one month to burn through all the games you wanted to play, which i'm sure a lot of people do (I do the same with Netflix etc.) so really they're not even getting 11.50 per game they rent out when people want to snag 6 big titles in their one month sub.

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I get the business model. I understand they have to make a profit. You aren't taking into account how many just keep the game, send it back, or how many do they purchase when compared to their subscriber base. I listed games within the last three months. I can point out shit that's over a year old on various platforms that they aren't providing as anywhere close to available.

I just won't use the service any longer. And then will come to the internet to warn others because I basically just spent 22.99 to play a game I couldn't give fuck all about which I could buy used for 15 bucks. If nothing else comes within a complete one month period between last guardian and dishonored 2, that's a company who shorted the shit out of their supply and my guess is they don't give a shit as long as they make money. Which is fine. But that doesn't mean it isn't a rip off.