How many families out there use GameFly? For those of you who are unfamiliar with the service, it’s like a Netflix for video games. You pay one monthly price to have video games shipped to your house (you choose between plans; we are doing one at a time) in little envelops and you pay them as long as you like with no late fees. You return them via the envelope again, and then you receive another game from your queue.
We tried GameFly a few years ago for Indy’s birthday present, but he would usually only play one game a month because he was either too busy to play or only enjoyed that single game. For that price, however, we could just buy the single game; we only have the regular Xbox and Playstation 2 (along with some older systems like Sega and the first 80s Nintendo system), so we can get them pretty cheaply at used gaming stores.
But now that Wood Sprite is 8—I’m still in denial of this at times, by the way—and playing games with Indy, we decided to try again so the two of them could try out games together. So far, they’ve been playing Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie’s Revenge for a week and they love it, but I sense a pattern forming here and I’m wondering if just buying these games cheaply for them to play—say one per month—would be a better strategy. It looks like I can get the game for under six bucks (plus shipping) on Amazon.com.
We are doing Netflix again, too, but we use the heck out of it. There are documentaries and lots of our shows, plus movies, so we easily use it at least every other day. It’s easy for me to justify the expense, especially when we plan on canceling our cable once our contract expires. I’m just not sure if GameFly is worth the same expense, though. I also don’t like that the queue only holds 50 games at a time, although I guess it’s fine when we’re using games so slowly.
How does your family use GameFly, if at all? What is the best way to get your money’s worth?
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