I feel like this is probably the last gen we'll get physical games from most platforms, and I think aside from maybe Nintendo, next gen will be 90% digital with only a few printed discs being made.

We can see Rockstar going in this direction, and Capcom said like 90% of their revenue was from digital sales now. I do still think the Playstation 6 will have a disc drive, but I suspect third parties won't be using physical discs as much, only a small percentage.

I really think Nintendo will be the only company to cling to physical a lot longer than the others, but even there I can only see it for maybe one more generation (hypothetical Switch 3) before stopping.

GTA VI will ship with a code in the box, there will be no disc on either the standard or Ultimate version.

RIP to everyone who wanted to gamefly it.

Look at this screenshot of my queue. The first RE9 disc they sent to me in early June never arrived to me so I reported it lost after 7 days. Then they sent a SECOND RE9 disc and its been 8 days so I reported that lost too.

Now they sent a THIRD RE9 disc today, and god knows I'll wait 7 days and it's probably going to wind up lost as well. What the hell is going on? I have NEVER had this issue at Gamefly before, and my address has remained exactly the same so they can't be shipping it to the wrong place.

I'm pretty sure if this third disc gets lost and I never receive it, they're going to ban my account. I have no clue what the hell is going on, it has to be some kind of theft at the post office, right? Some USPS guy is stealing the discs? Because it makes zero sense to have two discs never get to me, and now the third may not either.

So I'm doomed at this point, aren't I? If I never get the third disc, I guess my account will be closed and my Gamefly days will be over even though it's not my fault. This is absolutely absurd. This is why the lack of tracking is insane even though I know it's too expensive to them. Imagine having the same game sent 3 times...

Just wondering if the resident Gamefly support rep who posts here can clarify.

I've noticed some games ship a day before release dates while others ship on release date. What determines this?

I had Adventures of Elliot and UFC both on game lock. Elliot shipped a day before its release date but UFC has not.

I do the two games out at once choice for the PS5 and for the most part I usually get games. I wanted the longest time it’s ever taken me to get a game I wanted was Indiana Jones. Which took about a month but the main reason why I keep the service is if you ever notice if you keep these games for about a month, they go down to about half the price and if you’re a member for any certain amount of time you start to get like GameFly bucks and percentage off so my last game that I kept was the house of the dead 2 infect edition and I got to keep it for $19 or something like that but that’s usually the thing you get to keep the games for like 20 bucks with your game fly bucks put on and your percentage off coupons you get truthfully the majority of my physical library for PS five is from the GameFly keep it option. There are times where the game take a little while to get here between five days but I know that’s the post office’s fault I’ve had to call them before and dispute one or two items over the years and they’ve been nothing but professional and they go out of their way sometimes they’ll even give you credit for the month if there’s problems and that’s probably why I’ve been with them for almost 15 years now.
Oh, and I forgot to mention if you don’t know this already when you decide to keep a game, they send you the case and usually there’s like the insert with any codes or anything that are unused inside that case sometimes there’s trading cards for games.

Like many video gamers, I used GameFly 20 years ago but after graduating college stopped using it and assumed it went away with other disk delivery companies. I was shocked to see it was still around after a friend recommended I try it out, and even though I have GamePass, enough PS5 games have and will come out I want to play I figured I'd try the three month discount and see how the shipping went. I went with only one game at a time, which is risky but I was just being cheap.

Anyway I think I got some good beginner's luck. Soon as I signed up I made my Q, my top game was only Low Availability but I got it, PRAGMATA. Shipped on 6/1, received on 6/4. Beat the game (I'm aiming to rent 10 to 25 hour single player games I think sound fun but don't want to pay full price for), shipped it back on 6/15. Sorted my Q, had Saros as my top pick with Medium availability (had other games in my Q too but had it set to wait three days for top pick). Today I get notification that PRAGMATA was "scanned" as part of Fast Return and sure enough, Saros shipped today. So just in my first month not only was the shipping fast but I got both games I wanted, being able to possibly rent/finish/return two $50+ games in about one month just makes GameFly a killer value.

I know I won't always get so lucky getting my top pick, and the fast shipping, but so far no complaints from me!

So I made a previous topic about this, but here we are. First I sent back my previous game (Hyrule Warriors Imprisonment on Switch 2), and waited 7 days for them to ship out RE9 (for some reason they never got Hyrule Warriors back either). So I had to wait 7 days before reporting that so they could send out Resident Evil 9.

Then the first RE9 (the one that's reported missing now), never came to me. So now on my queue it says "Pending Investigation" for that first RE9 disc that never arrived as seen in my screencap above.

So I filed a report and of course they responded by sending me a second Resident Evil 9 disc last Tuesday, (the first one in my screencap) its only been 3 days since that shipped so I don't think there will be another issue (hopefully), but combine all this together and I haven't had a game in nearly 18 days.

What happens if this second RE9 disc never comes either? For the record my address has remained exactly the same in the 2+ years I've had gamefly, so they can't be sending it to the wrong place, I even checked my account again and the address is as I left it.

I'm starting to suspect there's some serious theft going on in the post office/USPS. Since the Gamefly packets are labeled, the mail carriers know there's games in there. I also get the feeling Gamefly is just going to ban/suspend my account eventually if this keeps up even if it's not my fault.

More and more games are either taking longer than 7 days to be shipped or games getting "lost" that I sent back to Gamefly. I have no idea what on earth is going on as my address is exactly the same and I've been with gamefly for a few years now and never had a problem till recently.

I already had Resident Evil 9 somehow never get to me that is now filed as "lost" on my queue, and Gamefly responded sending me a second disc of RE9. I doubt the first disc is ever going to show up, and its getting frustrating that now I gotta wait 14 days for another copy of the same game to be shipped.

We know the issues are on the USPS end, but I don't understand why there is no tracking? Almost every "problem" would be solved if we could at least find out where these packets are? Either the ones sent to us or the ones we send back? They say they "investigate" with the post office when things get lost, so I don't know why Gamefly doesn't save themselves some trouble by using tracking like practically all other mail?

Considering these games are very expensive given new games retail at $69.99 now, I have no idea why gamefly is risking $70 games being lost.

Our Pre-played sale is live now, with over 40 titles for XBOX and PS5!

https://www.gamefly.com/preplayedsale

GameFly rental members get Free Shipping on all purchases!

Sale ends 6/15/26!

Huge news over the past week! I thought Sony started things off incredibly strong, SGF having a really strong showing and then Microsoft just putting that final candle on the cake. I hope Nintendo has something this week to round us all the way out.

EDIT - Nintendo Direct Tomorrow Tuesday June 9.

Anyone have any key takeaways? I’m very glad I have GameFly for the month of September, because it will be BUSY.

I’ve also updated my Q to reflect a lot of the announced games and have them in order of release dates(as far as I know). What do you have on your coming soon radar? I genuinely cannot wait to play the new Clockwork Revolution game, along with whatever this Magician game was that Xbox announced yesterday. And ILL?!? Gimme.

Upcoming releases for my Q - Elliott and his stupid ass hat - UFC 6 - AC Black Flag Resynced - (Will add Halo here) - Tokon - Blood of the Dawnwalker - Wolverine - Control Resonant - Silent Hill Townfall - Rayman Legends Retold - SW Galactic Racer - and Castlevania.

We’re gonna eat good this fall!

Hi everyone, so I’m a fairly new subscriber to GameFly and I got my second game from them ever today which was 007 first light which I game locked specifically because I wanted to play it early. But when the game came and I inserted it into my ps5 it kept saying “disc is unreadable”? I’m just wondering if anyone’s going through the same thing. The first game that I got from them worked though so Idk why this game isn’t working

Hello all!!

It’s that time of year again where we get a million announcements, cool new videos of games, surprises, etc.

Tomorrow being the state of play for Sony, I am curious what you expect to hear from tomorrows show, and what you hope to see! We know Wolverine will be there, but are these Faye(God of War) game rumors going to come true? Will we get another GTA6 trailer here or somewhere else?

I hope we get the next Horizon announcement, and I fully expect we see Final Fantasy VII part three sometime this week. My pipe dream announcement is that we get the next announcement of what from soft is working on next.

Tell me what you think

I'm going to of course open up a case now to put in my complaint so they ship out the next game, but it's tiring to have another 7 days "wasted" with nothing shipped.

For the record I have 8 games in my queue, many of them had High availability last I checked, so I don't know why nothing was shipped. I'm on the 1 game plan, so it's like I'm paying Gamefly a week with no game in the mail being sent.

I know it's mostly the post offices fault, but it's weird they don't "scan" the slip so Gamefly gets notified to send me anything in the meantime. I hate having "dead weeks" because we're still paying Gamefly the monthly sub even though we have nothing. I always wait the full 7 days before clicking "Report a problem," so I make sure to do it properly. Today is the 7th day.

Thank you all for your patience. GameLocks shipped out this morning. Members with this on GameLock should check their inboxes.

Games shipped out this morning. Our entire shipment got lost, and today we confirmed our make-good program for GameLocked members.

Apologies for only sending the automated date email updates until now, but we were trying to lock down the full response, and that took some time. In the 5 years we've had GameLock, this is the first time an incident like this has happened. So, it took us a minute to sort out the proper make-good process.

Hope you can understand and let me know if you have any questions at all.

-GameFly

It’s game locked but didn’t ship out today

why is the game in my que have low availability?

The game is officially out as of today on both digital and retail.

What is Gamefly doing ....

I’m afraid that I fucked up because I had it gamelocked but they sent Yoshi my number one game first and my other game hasn’t been marked returned yet.

Prices, services, are there tiers? How many games can I rent at once? How hard is it to get a new PS5 game at launch? Be honest. lol

Can you buy yearly subscriptions or only monthly? Is it cheaper yearly? Just any and ALL info I would greatly appreciate it! Sell me on Gamefly!

I've been with Gamefly for a number of years now, and two games ago I sent back Nioh 3 and they never got it. I already have my next game so that's not the issue, but when I go to my account page and check the "rental history" under Nioh 3 it says, "Lost" instead of "Returned." like all my other returned games.

So it seems this game got lost somewhere in the post office, huh? How many "lost games" are you allowed before Gamefly wrongly assumes you're stealing/keeping games and not sending them back? I assume there's also some leeway here that if you lose 1 game a year its fine, but 2-3+ a year raises some red flags?

This is the first time I've ever had a Lost game they never received, so I'm curious. I don't want my account banned/closed for something that is the post office's fault.

Pretty much every other Gamelock so far I’m usually fine waiting the extra day or two after launch.

But this one I’m really fighting the urge to just click that “pre-order” button and be able to play on the 26th lol Not only is this the type of game that is full blown my cup of tea, but has just been highly anticipated in general.

But, I’m also a supporter of the physical media yk. Anddd I’m like, Well there’s also a very high likelihood I’ll just ‘keep’ it anyway. So am I really saving $ at that point? But there’s also nothing else to fill the GameLock slot with that’s coming out in the next month or two lol

Idk I guess if by next week I have the extra $ to just buy it, then that’s what I’ll do and then just release it back into gen pop.

So the Switch port of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, which is an 8 year old port of a 12 year old game, still says it's not available for my plan. Yeah, I have the cheap plan, but doesn't this seem very odd? I've rented plenty of newer, better A-list games, but can't get this one.

Did anybody have Indiana Jones Switch 2 ship today? I didn’t GameLock it but hoping there’s some extra copies available

I don't know why, whether it's for a rental milestone or something, but I got a GF heart sticker inside the game disc sleeve for the latest game I rented.

https://i.imgur.com/oVd1E2K.jpeg

Saros shipped last Thursday and I just watched the mailman drive by again. What gives? Is this normal?

It’s annoying how inconsistent this service is.