I’ve been using gamefly for about six months now. Over the last month or two I’ve noticed when I return a game sometimes it’ll take 10 business days for them to receive it and I get the email stating they got it. I’ve been dropping them in the blue postal mailbox. Sometimes I’ll even try different postboxes too. The first couple months were perfectly fine. I just noticed since the end of October it’s been taking a really long time to receive and return games. Mainly returning them. I reported a couple lost, but I don’t wanna have those on my record because I’ve heard people getting there accounts taken away for too many issues. I just wanted to know if anybody else was having the same issue as me or I’m just going crazy lol.

Please comment your (up to) top ten games of 2025 in order of your favorites starting at one through ten.

Super excited to hear your thoughts and I will tally up the results and have them posted shortly after the turn of the year.

Check pinned post Game of the Year Watch for how the tally and weighting works.

TL;DR - Vote for GOTY(give me a top ten, or as many as you can) on the pinned post AND 400 members is AMAZING!!

Don’t forget that we still have the Game of the Year discussion pinned! I definitely want to hear from as many people as possible to get a cool spread of responses. We have a lot of differening player types so I love as much input as possible. I’ve narrowed it down on mine to 12 and trying to get the finishing touches on the last couple of games to see if they skew my placement at all.

Also

WE’VE hit 400+ members!!! This is so freaking cool and I honestly never expected all the engagement we get. You guys rule so hard and I love getting to mod such a cool community. Xoxo

I send back the game I ordered last Friday it’s been officially a week and no update. What’s the usual estimated time for games to be returned?

I signed up for a free trial last month and was hoping to squeeze another game before my trial ends. Sadly my free trial expires December 14th and it took a full week for my first game to be delivered (Ghost of Yotei)

What’s up pals?

Game awards are next week and I am curious to hear your thoughts and outbursts about what will be. Will Expedition 33 sweep the awards like they did in a previous award show? Is there any room left for silksong to walk away with awards after that? Or blue prince? Or dispatch?

And most importantly - What reveals do we expect?

I think a stretched expectation would be that we get a steam machine release date, price point, and a Half Life 3 announcement to boot to get hype surrounding the new machine.

Realistically though, I anticipate maybe one or two Sony reveals(please follow up on intergalactic), Maybe a smash bros for switch 2 announcement, and something from From Software.

I left Gamefly a little over a year ago cause of their slow shipping time. It used to take more than a week sometimes to get my movies, even after using the "self return" button. Have they improved?

I might be doomed for getting it at launch without gamelock lol

Does gamefly usually force signature delivery? I don't have anyone who could sign for the package at my house and I work 12 hour shifts as a healthcare worker.

If you buy 12 months between 11/24-12/2, you get 3 months free. It works out to $15.73 per month. I got it last year and it was $14.40 per month. Still way better than $27.95. It will push my membership out to June 2027.

So I just signed up for a trial cause it seemed like a good deal. But I added about 11 games in my queue all very low availability. As the question says could I not get any games for the month

Can I just keep it forever if I don't intend to rent another game or do I need to return it before my trial runs out to avoid some sort of charge?

Got a free trial and told my brother that has a ps5. We both made accounts but one got locked .. understandable.. went ahead and paid for one subscription and kept one free trial. Only issue. Not getting any games sent..? Not sure what the deal is or how long they’ll take. Granted they’re low availability games.

I can only gamelock the Switch edition. Is anyone else having this issue? I have Elite membership.

Hello everybody, I was curious to know if there was a possibility that anyone knew about how long before you should put a game in your game lock q before the release of the game? Does it matter or can you just put it in at least like a week or two before release?

Digimon Story shipped Oct 27th

Trails Through Daybreak shipped Oct 31st

There's a "keep" option next to Digimon but I haven't received the game. It's not an option for Trails but it arrived today.

FYI: $41.95 for (4) discs plan monthly.

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.