August 5, 2009
Turnaround
So, I’ve been a Gamefly subscriber for awhile now. So I guess, the question is, how do I like the service? Or maybe that isn’t a question anyone has, but just for the record, I think it’s pretty nice. I mean, it’s been forever since I had rented games, but Gamefly seems to do everything one would want from such a service. I am fairly happy with it.
The only thing that’s annoying me is… well, the fact that they set expectations really high the first time and then cut them down.
The first time I returned a game, the very next day, I got an e-mail saying they sent out a new game. I was astounded. There was no way the game had gotten back to them yet. It turned out that they sent out the new game due to something called “FastReturn” which lets them send out new games before they even have the old one back. I was incredibly impressed with it! I was like “Yes, this is going to be totally sweet.”
FastReturn hasn’t worked for any game since the first one.
Originally I thought it was, perhaps, because I put the first game in the big mailbox at the actual post office. Maybe that gets them to scan it, and putting it in the mailbox at home does not? So I put the most recent game in that big mailbox again, and it once again did not work. Or at least, it certainly didn’t seem to.
This is one of those things like the Logan’s Burger problem. If they hadn’t ever turned it around so fast, I wouldn’t be annoyed that they haven’t since. And I mean, I shouldn’t be annoyed in general. The service is still worth the money I’m paying for it. I just want things to play, and the game I keep holding on to, Resident Evil 5 (Which I should ramble about someday) is a purely multiplayer with my brother experience, so having it around isn’t useful for just, you know, normal stuff. Normal single player gameplay. Though I suppose I could just try it and see what happens.
But yeah, anyway, those are my thoughts on Gamefly. I hope the service continues to help me not waste all kinds of money on Vidjeo Gamez. I was already proud of myself for not putting money down on Scribblenauts, even though it looks amazing, and just adding it to my game queue.