Is gamefly a good service

It's a great service and has saved me a good deal on games in general.  No reason to buy a game when "replay" is often nothing more than going through a game on a harder difficulty setting.  The amount of games you will get to play with this service far outnumbers what the average consumer can afford.  You can also take your time with games, without worning about convential renting "turn-in" dates, and play when it is fun and convient for you.

A game these days usually costs 50 dollars.  That's two months of GF service, in the time you can play anywhere from 2-15 games, it's one hell of a deal.  I also use brightspot.tv to lower my subscription cost by $10 a month.  My plan, 2-games out at a time, usually costs me 14$ a month.  Purchase one video game... or have 3-4 months of unlimited gaming on an unlimited number of titles?  KILLER DEAL, =D.

The quality of the service itself is great.  It only takes them 1-3 days to ship out games.  The process is really simple and hassle free.  I've never recieved the wrong game, or a game that doesn't work, and the turn around times are great.  It's been the best gaming decision I've made in a long time.

I posted this back in another similar thread.  Sorry if it's not what you wanted to hear, but you asked.

In all honesty, I'm not going to pay $15.99 a month to be told that a game I wish to rent has a "short wait".  If I am paying for a service, they should live up to what they offer.  Most of the games I wished to rent were the same as every Joe Blow on the planet wanted to rent as well (the new ones), and more often than not I would end up waiting a few weeks to get the game I wanted.

In the meantime, other games would be sent my way, but not the ones I truly wanted.  So if I wanted to keep my name at the top of their reserve list, I would have to remove all the other games from my Q as to prevent them from sending me an alternate game (which would fill up how many I could have at a time so when it did become available, I would be passed over due to my limit) while I waited for the one I really wanted in the first place.

They should have enough inventory to supply demand, and until they do I will not resubscribe.

Also, if you decide to cancel, they will offer you cheaper monthly rates.  They offered to drop mine down to $9.99 for a month or two if I remained with them.  Might help you save some dough.

And this one was my response to a long, rambling cuss me out response from someone who didn't agree:

There is a major difference between going to Blockbuster and paying for a game, and going through Gamefly to get it: if a game is not in at BB or Hollywood video, you walk out and do not pay.  With GF, you are paying a flat rate regardless.  If you are content with that, then more power to you.

For me, no I'm not going to bite.  It has nothing to do with being a "spoiled brat", it's just I'm not going to pay a monthly rate for a service that is sometimes in stock with what they offer.  Would you pay your monthly phone bill or electricity bill to be told that they will be available shortly?

Come on.

The entire thread is here: http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25620635

  If you are looking to rent older games, I think it is worth it.  If you want to rent the newest releases available, I'd only do it if you are content with possibly being put on a "short wait" list while still paying to play a game that may not really be the one you want.  It's been a while since I was a member though, so things may have changed.  The delivery and turnaround was fast, the discs were in good condition and other than what I talked about above it was a great service.  You might just want to be aware of this aspect before taking the leap.

Up to you.

As far as rental services go, they're pretty good.  They still don't have enough copies of new releases to go around, but at least they've recently opened their East Coast offices so things are much faster if you're in the east.  I am, and before that happened, they were wicked slow.  Now, it's much, much better.

They've also changed their labeling of games in terms of availability.  Before, it was either "Available Now" or "Short Wait," but there are many more categories now.  There's "High Availability," "Medium Availability," "Low Availability," or "Very Low Availability" in addition to "Available Now."  And each one has a time frame attached to them, so you have a better idea of when to expect them.

For the most part, it's worth it if you rent a lot of games.