Originally Posted by
WCP
GameFly sucks for many reasons. Convenience is relative. Sure, the games arrive in your mailbox, so how could something be more convenient than that ?
Well, good luck getting the actual game that you are hoping to get. The only way to actually get the game you really want from GameFly, is to put only that game in your queue, and leave everything else empty and just wait and wait and wait. Then, when you finally get that game, and get bored of it after two days, you ship it back, but it takes a week for the thing to get back to GameFly, and then a few more days for something else to get shipped out, and is the other game coming out to you something that you actually want, or is it something you're settling for? It just seems that with GameFly, I'm paying this monthly fee, which becomes a daily fee if you break it down that way, and many of the days are transit days, where I have nothing to show for my payment. Transit days, or waiting for something to be available days. So how many days of the actual month do you actually have a game that you really want ? That's the real question with GameFly.
With RedBox, I can have a Tuesday and Wednesday off work, and I can do this...
1. Arrive at my grocery store (with the two RedBox machines) at like 8am in the morning, after dropping my kid off at school.
2. Rent a game that I've really been wanting to check out
3. play the game all damn day and night
4. wake up in the morning, and play all damn day and night up until about 8:30pm
5. Drive over to the Grocery store and return the game prior to 9pm.
I can get about 12 hours with a game (easily), before needing to return it, if I have two days off work in a row.
The fee is $2. I know exactly what I'm getting, for exactly what I'm paying for. With Redbox, it's a bunch of if's and's and buts... You really don't know what the heck you're paying for each month.