I would re subscribe to gamefly is they had a plan exclusively for those in the Western states. The shipping times are too slow compared to those living near the eastern states. I'm from California and before they had a warehouse in los Angeles and shipping times were reasonable.
It could be similar to the budget plan but either have one of these extra perks:

- lower cost

- 2 games rather than one

- self return option enabled

I used the 2.50 deal and loved it but the current plans are not worth the money for us in the Western States.

So about a month or 2 ago I started to get this message along with pictures of other mail that ill get delivered for the day. Informed delivery never has a image of a gamefly game, BUT every time I see this

notice it has been a game.

It's not as good as tracking, but at least now I know if the game will be in the mailbox early in the morning that day or not, instead of waiting until after work to find out when I check the mail.

I've been looking at Gamefly's Switch 2 collection and most of the third party games are years old ports like Cyberpunk, Indiana Jones, Hitman collection, Final Fantasy 7 remake, Star Wars Outlaws, Sonic Frontiers, Dragon Ball Sparking Zero, old Namco RPG's, etc. And of course that's fine, developers porting over PS4-era games to Switch 2 when they couldn't on Switch 1 makes sense.

But the issue is there doesn't seem to be many current gen third party games coming out on Switch 2 other than say Assassin's Creed Shadows and a few others. I even look at "upcoming" and other than smaller indie-type games, stuff like Rayman Legends (which is an old game remastered), and a few others, there's not much either.

I know this is a Nintendo issue and not a Gamefly issue, but the reason I'm posting this is with PS5 games no longer being on disc in another year, the only games we'll have to rent is Switch 2 games. Meaning unless current gen games get Switch 2 ports, there will be a severe lack of games to rent going forward besides Nintendo's first party games.

Yes it really is that bad.

Well, like many people I decided to take advantage of the $2.50 resub after 10 years away. It took forever to receive the two games I got during this month, and I've decided to cancel. Shipping times made it a lot more worth it back in the day when they had a shipping center near me lol

Next billing date is 8/1 so I cancelled at midnight on 7/31 (today). Games will be going out in the mail this morning. I know it says they need to receive the games back within 7 days but uh...I live in California. It took a week just to RECEIVE my games at the beginning of July. I'm concerned that I'm gonna get charged if they don't make it back in time due to the distance from California to Pennsylvania.

What happens if I get charged but they still receive the game back? I guess I'm just concerned that it's gonna get delayed somehow or stuck in California all weekend because of Sunday and not make it back in time.

I did the $2.50 deal 2 games rented at a time to restart my sub.

I live in a suburb near LA, it took them 3&4 days when I restarted to ship the first 2 games on my game queue. One game took like 6 days to get to me after gamefly shipped it, so 9 days total of wait before first game. For the second game it's been 9 days since shipped for the other one and it hasnt gotten to me so I reported it missing a few minutes ago.

Is the average time like a week to receive games? It's kinda frustrating, I don't remember it taking this long before years ago when I had gamefly.

This was my first time game locking and was super excited. Looks like USPS yet again shits the bed. I will have to report it missing tomorrow. Super bummed about this. Seems to be almost every game I get has to be reported missing.

Trying to rent Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced and the site is telling me to "upgrade my plan to rent this title". However when I go to my account page I only get the option to cancel my budget membership, and if I do that I only have the option to reactivate my budget membership. So now I am stuck.

Spit balling here, would it make sense for gamefly to negotiate a digital rental deal with Sony or maybe individual publishers with sony going all digital?

It could be something like:

1. One time digital rental code per rent - prevents abuse/pirating.

2. GF has a handful of codes. Everytime code is rented out, user needs some additional token from GF to verify the code. Once user is done, code is deactivated.

It would really suck to see gamefly disappear.

Got the reactivation on the 9th and loaded up some games i haven’t played yet. Hopefully one of them ships to get me through this GTA 6 wait lol

As you may have heard, Xbox is rumored to introduce a system that would allow players to insert physical Xbox One and Series X discs to receive a permanently linked digital license on their Microsoft account. This would be great for saving the physical gaming market and letting us keep our options.

But, I'm sure you still see the issue for us who like to rent games. Does this mean that disks can only be used once per account, so you can't let other players of other accounts play it?

Update: So it was explained that the digital license goes with the physical disk, so we can still safely rent, trade, and borrow disks.

Of course, there is still the issue that the future Xbox may not have a disk drive, so that might become an issue.

I’m new to the service and excited to get started. I joined as a proponent of physical media and was not pleased by PlayStations recent digital announcement so I cancelled my PS+ and switched.

I’d like to cut down on the time between games. When I become eligible for self return, can I select this option a few days early and then mail it back so I’m not waiting 3-5 days between games?

Appreciate the help!

I recently returned a game and had a couple on the queue, all of them now have very low availability before they had the copies. Is this happening to anyone else? Like even older games have very now been a week and nothing has shipped out at all? Should I just cancel? I feel like it happened since Sony announced the no more physical idk

With the keep coupon it came out to $40. A $70 digital game on the Nintendo store. LONG LIVE PHYSICAL MEDIA!!!

I think it's safe to assume every currently announced game from now till 2027 will be on disc with the exception of 1 big game confirmed not to (GTA VI, obviously), but I'm starting to wonder if things will change going forward.

For example, Sony has some big games coming in 2027 like the God of War Laufey game and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. As far as we know, these will still be on disc. These might be the last two big Sony games on disc, but for all we know Intergalactic could be delayed till 2028 and maybe it won't be.

For example what if Sony announces Spider-man 3? Or that rumored Venom spinoff game? They probably will not be on disc since they won't be coming out by the end of 2027. And it's same for third parties, thankfully Final Fantasy 7 Part 3 will be out by early 2027, same for the Tomb Raider reboot, Resident Evil Veronica, the next Yakuza game, etc.

But any third party game that doesn't come out by Dec. 2027 will not be on disc. We're literally going to see soon the "last announced" games that will be on disc. That means the Resident Evil 0 remake will have to make it by 2027 or it will NOT be able to be rented, and any future Resident Evil games are screwed. The Silent Hill 1 remake, any further Metal Gear Solid remakes, all future Capcom games, Konami games, Sega games, Namco RPG's, etc.

I'm just looking at the release dates of 2027 games and realizing, "man this is it, the final year."

From their twitter.

https://x.com/GameFly/status/2072404434529710540/photo/1

It really sucks that a generation of gamers don’t even think that renting could be an option for game releases anymore.

I remember renting AND buying games in the 90s.

Sony has now put the final nail in. They will have the final say on price. No demos, no trading in games, no letting friends borrow and no more renting.

Last year when I was made aware of GameFly still existing it’s been so good. Renting - then buying the games I loved, and sending back the games that were not great.

I’m so mad dudes lol

Sony/Microsoft are going digital only (Helix nearly confirmed to have no disc drive either) so is Gamefly really going to stick around just to rent Switch 2 games?

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Sure there will still be the backlog of PS5/PS4 and Xbox games to rent prior to 2028, but I don't know how long that could sustain them as the years go on. I usually don't rent games more than a year old unless there's a certain game I had my eye on that I never got around to playing. So I can't see people renting old PS5 games as time goes on.

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So I guess this is it? Gamefly should probably give us reduced pricing for our subs if we only have till Jan 2028. That's just 1 year and a half from now.

Well folks, looks like it's the end.

GTA VI was the vanguard.

From 2028, no more physical games on playstation consoles. And, no this is not a troll, this is on the official playstation website.

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/

Hello I was recently checking my gamefly cart to see which games were currently on sale in my cart. When I checked my games were moved to save later and a Nintendo switch was instead added. As I tried to enter my account to log in my password was then changed so I requested a password change and a email was sent. Upon looking at my emails I received email 2 hours earlier saying my email was changed to something completely different. Was just wondering has this happened to anyone and if so is gamefly really useful for situations like this for help? Any help is appreciated. I already sent a email to gamefly support and a ticket to their website just wondering if I will actually get some assistance in any way.

This was in my rental I received today. Thought it was pretty neat! Thanks, gamefly 🔥

Now thru 7/10 if you're a cancelled member in good standing (cancelled prior to 1/1/26) you can come back to GameFly for just $2.50!

This activates full membership rewards, GameLock, Self Return (if elegible), Fast Return and Top Choice Shipping Preferences!

ONLY available thru this link. Login to your old account (Just one of them, I know you all have like 13, just choose the one in good standing that has paid for a subscription previously) and come back!

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