Gamefly-- Netflix for video games

Netflix expanding into games would be ideal though.

I keep seeing ads for this and I'm really tempted. Have the fixed their distribution issues? I'd be willing to put up with semi-slow delivery (ie, waiting around 4 days between mailing off a game and receiving a new one).

On the webpage it says "We ship our games from Los Angeles, CA, Pittsburgh, PA, and Tampa, FL. The opening of our newest shipping center in Tampa allows us to provide fast shipping across the entire U.S. Stay tuned - more shipping centers are on the way! "

I'm in Ithaca, NY, so I can't imagine that it would take that long to ship to Pittsburgh and back. I'm going to go ahead and try it for a month. It's $8.95 for the first month (for one game at a time, plenty for me), and you can cancel anytime, so if it sucks, it's like I went to Hollywood Video and rented one game for 5 days (~$8 at the one a few blocks away from me).

I just signed up for this. I asked for GTA IV and Assassin's Creed. They sent me Assassin's Creed and Skate. We'll see if this goes beyond the 10 day free trial.

Skate is like GTA IV in that both have characters with legs.

Gamerang didn't work too well for me; gamefly has been reliable and reasonably fast.
They do this new thing where they send your next game when usps scans whatever you've mailed back, which speeds things up nicely.

I've been using it for about a month now, and yeah, the USPS scan thing has considerably sped up the exchange time. But yeah, don't expect to get GTAIV anytime soon. One time, it skipped over FIVE games in my queue, 4 of which has availability ratings of "medium" to "high", and sent me Advance Wars on DS. Still, I plan on sticking with it for at least a few months more.

I think it's good for gaming dilettantes like myself; I use it to justify owning a system and always having a flow of new software in the house to keep up with what the kids are playing. If I need a GTA/guitar hero/wii fit/mario galaxy type game, I just go buy it.

Slow shipping times and scratched discs make this totally not worth it.

Never got a scratched disk, fwiw

oh hey, I should be getting games tonight ^_^

Recently someone told me that if you want to get particular games, make sure those are the ONLY games in your Gamefly queue. If you're willing to wait slightly longer you'll get the games you want instead of something down the queue a bit.

I don't know why this never occurred to me before but it really fucking works.

So I'm trying out their download it, play for free if you're a subscriber system for PC now. Will report back, would be nice if it worked. They've got some good games... civ iv!

they're still in business but dang electronic download has kinda killed them.