Gamefly Review

The biggest and most popular video game rental service, Gamefly is reviewed in the article. This Gamefly review talks about different features and price range of various plans.
An online rental service for video games, Gamefly Inc. is based in the United States. Video games are delivered to the customers by means of the 'United States Postal Service'. Established in the year 2002, Gamefly Inc. is today's biggest rental company for video games. The Gamefly review provided below should help understand more about this rental service.

Gamefly Reviews and Ratings

A monthly fee is charged for the service offered by Gamefly Inc. The Gamefly service offers a trial period of 10 days (at $22.95/mo). The first month's membership can be obtained at a price of $8.95 in this trial period. In this plan, the customer can subscribe for a single game. If the subscriber wants to keep two games at a time, he can go for the $12.95 plan. Regular monthly plans after the trial period are as follows.
  • Plan1: The subscription for this plan is $15.95/mo and one can keep a single game.
  • Plan 2: The second plan is priced at $22.95/mo and customers can keep 2 games at a time.
  • Plan 3: This plan is for customers who have an active account for a minimum period of 60 days. The customers can keep 3 games at a time with this plan at $29.95/mo.
  • Plan 4: The fourth plan has the same eligibility requirement (60 days) in terms of an active account. This plan can be availed at a price of $36.95/mo. You can keep 4 games in this plan.
One can keep the games for an unlimited period. It takes about 2-4 days for the game to be delivered at the customer's place. More than 7000 game titles are available with Gamefly. If the customer likes a particular game, he can keep it; Gamefly bills the customer for this title. One can therefore use a particular game beforehand and then think about buying it whenever he wishes to do so. The different platforms being supported include Xbox, PS2, PSP, Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, GBA, NDS, GameCube, etc. In a way, this provision seems to be unique and one of its kind in the market.

GameQ
This feature of the Gamefly service allows users to create a 'queue' or list of games. Customers can get a new game after returning one from the queue. The cyclical process continues so that the customer can keep at the most, 50 games with him. The game which comes first in the list is supplied to the customer. It is however, possible to change the order of the list, based on customer preference. In case a game is delivered to a customer in a damaged form, replacement is provided by Gamefly service. It is possible to obtain replacement also if the wrong game is delivered. If replacement for that particular title is not possible, customers are supplied with next game in the queue.

How to Select Games?
The Gamefly website makes it easy to select a particular game. Game titles can be filtered on the basis of consoles that customers use. Categories like 'See All', 'New Releases', 'Most Popular', 'Coming Soon', etc., should prove to be useful in making choices about game titles. The results for list of games display 15 pages (by default). It is however possible to view 45-75 games by changing the format of the page. The page view can also be changed from the list format to thumbnails.

The various features of this video game rental service are provided by means of the Gamefly review presented above. GameQ is an interesting and useful feature of the Gamefly service. More than 7000 game titles are with this rental service; therefore, one need not look any further to enjoy a variety of games.
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Published: 10/1/2010
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