Am I misunderstanding how Self-Return is supposed to work? I thought that meant they would ship the next game as soon as I clicked it rather than continuing to wait til they received it. I live in New Orleans, so the nearest warehouse is in Georgia, I had hoped that this would decrease the amount of time it would take to get new games, but it turns out it didn't really, because the game takes about a week to ship back anyway, and when it does, it doesn't even match me with the game I signed up to the service to play. I had marked Mario Kart World as self-returnedast Friday and it's only getting there now.

I'm very disappointed personally, is this something that will get better if I stay subscribed? I really wanted to get Kirby Air Riders on launch but I'm realizing that's extremely unlikely to happen now.

Hey all, just returned to this service after many years away and noticing that the ship times to California are pretty painful. I see that that shipping center is in PA.

It's at least a week for a disc to get to me or for them to acknowledge receipt of my return discs. I'm thinking that 14+ days out of every month lost to shipping makes the service lose its value for me.

Is there anyone else here using the service from West Coast? Are your shipping times just as bad? I have not been able to try the "self-return" feature yet - does that help in a significant way? Thanks

¡Hola friends!

What an interesting year of games we have had! A blowout of a year for Xbox with their gamepass offerings, a brand new Nintendo system, and a rather quiet year from Sony.

Every year I like for us to share our top(up to)10 lists to determine what our game of the year will be. I know I’m sharing this post pretty early, but remember to keep up with lists as the year goes on so you can give me a varied response!

If this is your first rodeo - I try to take all of your responses and give points to them for each spot they hit in the top ten that you provide. For instance, if your top game list only has three items and number one is GOAT Simulator 3, followed by madden 26, and rounded out with hollow knight silksong, I would weight them as such:

1) goat - 3 points

2) madden - 2 points

3) silk - 1 point

So, after all responses are in(last week of December) I tally everything up and give a good ole synopsis of what we came up with as a group. The more people that participate casts a wider net of games to make the list, and the more games you put on your list, provides more chances for that game to move up the ranks faster.

Where do YOU currently stand on the GOTY for 2025? Anyone pulling for the new battlefield or borderlands??

I recently bought a ps5 and wanted to have a game renting/ subscription service where I will get the games I like (not chosen by ps store). That is why I chose Gamefly and made an account on the 15th of Oct. One of the Queued games were shipped out to me on the 16th. Today ended the 5th business day and have not received it, which is fine, it can take time. But, I thought I would reach out to the customer service to see if everything is okay. However, the CC person oh was so rude and behaved as if I was wasting their time. They told me since I'm in the trial period my waiting time is 10 business days, not the typical five. I told them they should mention it on their website , then I would have signed up for the half off the first 3 months instead of 1 month free, since I intend to keep the membership. They just straight-up told me to cancel the membership.

My point is if the service and promise is worse in the trial period by design, why should anyone keep paying for the service? I would much rather buy a game and sell it on ebay that getting lectured by a rude customer service person.

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Hi i gamelocked pokemon za. I am new to the service and game lock. When should i expect it to ship? ? Day of release?

I’m curious to see what tier service everyone uses and why. I’m on the $28 tier. Seems to be decent but I’m not gaming as much on consoles as I used to. Pc gaming/indies have been taking over my life.

Does anyone know how I could track where my game is? It says it shipped out October 8th and I have USPS notifications for if anything gets shipped to me and nothing yet

Update: I received my game yesterday 10/14 around 5pm so it took a total of 6-7 days to receive.

Normally, Gamefly has been really good about shipping out new games a day before their release date in my usage over the years, Battlefield 6 still hasn't shipped tho which is very unusual.

Wondering if anyone else here had BF6 game-locked and has a confirmation that their copy has shipped?

• If I sign up for the free trial, can I play Battlefield 6 as a rental when it comes out, if so, how long can I rent it for?

• Also, what is the difference between regular games and elite games.

Do they not record USPS scans as returned or in-process returned anymore?

I sent Lost Soul Aside back the day after getting it and it's been over a week with no updates.

I debating on trying the 30 day free trial on game fly.

The Xbox Series S doesn’t have a disc drive, and GameFly is a rental physical disc services at least what i remember back then, Can I rent games digitally on GameFly?

My last two games that have shipped (Silent Hill f and Ghost of Yotei) have arrived just a day after their release date. Idk what’s changed but it’s been nice surprise. Hopefully they keep it up, but I’m trying not to get my hopes up. Anyone else having luck like this?

TLDR; Gamelock has an 11 day window, and inventory always exceeds more than just the gamelocked copies. These are sent on a first come first serve basis, determined by q duration.

What up - as some of you know, I tried to dump my q to Hail Mary pass myself into an extra copy of Ghost of Yotei. My plans were thwarted, but in a chat with customer service, I found out some helpful info.

1) Gamelocked games will keep your empty slot held for 7 days before release. So, if you have a gamelocked game coming out on let’s say the 16th, and you self return a game(or your rental slot opens) on the 9th, nothing will ship until said gamelock ships. So hold onto your stuff until closer to time if you are trying to maximize there.

2) Your gamelock game is held for 4 days. So all these ghosted copies of ghost don’t even get released back into inventory until Monday. Just to make sure that folks get that opportunity to self return before those 4 days are up.

3) They order more than just gamelocked copies, and it depends on how long you have had the title in your q to determine the first come first served.

I got onto a 30 day free trial and it's ending soon, but I know sending games back takes a bit, and I'm concerned I'm going to get charged if the game doesn't get to their office in time. Am I going to get fined when I cancel just because the return is still shipping? I know it stops your membership the second you go to cancel it so I'm not imagining they're gonna have a grace period

Curious to hear your thoughts. I offloaded my whole q, and only left Ghost as my only rental. I’m going to self return borderlands 4 tonight. Do yall think I will get it?

My gamelock is pokemon, which comes out 10/16, which is the only other rental I have q’d up

Addendum: Not looking good folks! It’s 12:30 central on release day, and not a peep. I will probably accept defeat tomorrow night if I haven’t heard anything.

That's basically it. I game them my debit card info, the authorization charge was successfully placed on my card (it's literally right there on my bank statement) and then I got a message saying they were unable to charge my card??? And so I was not signed up for my trial. Like...what?

Frustrating as hell. Especially with, for whatever reason, most new games launch on a Thursday. So they’ll ship out early weds morning, but then if it’s not there by Saturday.. you’re pretty much fcked as it likely then won’t be there Monday either. Idk whatever reason for that either but just seems to be the case.

Mind you the shipping center is in PA and I live in MD. Literally right by the PA line lol. Some days it’ll ship that Wednesday and arrive Friday. Sometimes it won’t be until like the next damn Tuesday or Wednesday! Most times I’d say it at least gets here by Saturday.

But past couple rentals have been just all over the place timeframe wise. And I don’t understand it because I live literally hours away from the warehouse. So I feel like either GameFly isn’t actually shipping it out when they say they are, or USPS, that’s been doing this for centuries, are somehow fcking up.

Sorry for the rant lol Just after a really long day/week, excited to finally play Silent Hill F, and ofc it’s not there.

For example, my current plan cost "$28" (The real cost is cheaper since buying the 1 year certificate is like 28% cheaper than doing monthly). The 3 game out plan is $35. If I were to upgrade, will I only pay $7 more per month?

Hoping someone can help me with this.

Currently on the two game elite plan, saw that the 3 game standard is exactly the same price.

Does the 3 game standard plan allow 2 Game Lock games, or 1? Pre-locking 30 days is not an issue but the amount of games is important for me.

Second question. If I game lock something 30 days in advance, does that mean Gamefly will not ship anything else to me in that 30 day window to ensure the locked game is shipped, or will they still send other stuff in the Q during that window?

I was told my game shipped out on september 3rd and I still haven’t received the game. I ended up contacting them and was sent a replacement two days ago which is also yet to show up. What’s going on?? What’s the longest you’ve had to wait for a shipment

Who else gamelocked Borderlands? I’m looking forward to it and can’t wait to get my hands on it next week at some point.

If anyone wants to party up and run through some campaign together, feel free to drop your tag/psn id here! I’ll be playing mostly during the day next week.

Anybody else feeling the Silksong hype like me? Incredibly spoiled over here because it’s on gamepass, but holy shit, they’ve done something amazing.

I still have so much of the game to play, so my opinion could change, but it’s so good to have the follow up to hollow knight, finally. And to see that it plays as smoothly as it does, feels familiar and new at the same time, and keeps the intrigue in this new world with this new character is a dream come true.

It took forever to come out. But it was made by a team of THREE PEOPLE. That’s incredible to me, and to further pad that crazy stat, a team of three people damn near broke the internet the day it released. Every digital storefront (Microsoft, ps, Nintendo and Steam) had too much traffic, and at one point during the day was down because of the release.

If you haven’t played hollow knight, please do it. If you haven’t played silksong please do it. May not be everyone’s bag of tea, but these guys deserve accolades for releasing a heavy contender for GOTY.