"Sony’s PlayStation Now Service Feels Like Highway Robbery"

[Euphoria14]

KylieDog said:

Euphoria14 said:
Back when we had Blockbuster it was like $8 for 5-days.

Today we have Redbox which is $2/day or $14 for 7-days.


Now $8 for 7-days is bad? Where have people been living where they did not pay attention to rental prices? What did they want, $2 for a week rental?

Those seem like terrible prices, what are gamefly prices? I'd check but get redirected away from US site.

First month is free if you use the trial offer, then it is $16/month for 1 game at a time or $23/month for 2 games at a time

You get discounts for the 1st 2 months if you opt out of the free trial.

 

If you sign up for 1 game at a time the first 2-months are $10 each ($16/month after that).

2-game at a time sub is $20/month for the 1st 2-months and $23/month after that.

 

Typical turnaround time for games is around 3-days depending on your location and you run into the issue of the games you want not being on hand. So you sign up, place a game on your queue, then you get the next available game on that queue around 2 days later, play for a week or so (depending on how often you actually game), send it back, get another one in 3-4 days (Depends on when they recieve your game back). I used to average around 2-3 games per month on my 1 game sub.

I has Gamefly for 3-years before I stopped around 1 year+ ago because I never had the time to play all those games to justify $16/month, but if you have nothing better to do and just game 10+ hours a day then it's fantastic value. Personally I don't see how anyone can have the time to justify a 2 game per month sub. They must seriously do nothing at all but eat, sleep and play video games.

 

 

I use Redbox now because if I grab a game at 1pm today I get to keep it until 9pm the next night before being charged for a 2nd day. Based on my game time lately it works best for me. Allowed me to beat Uncharted 3 single player in 3-days and thanks to the constant coupons they hand out I only paid $4.58.

 

Edit - I also want to mention that the reason I like 1-day and 1-week rentals is because for $2-$10 I can either beat a game and/or see if that is the kind of game for me. If it is I will usually then just go out and purchase the game. Works better for me than spending $60 only to find out I hate it.

Last time I rented a video game from Redbox it was MLB14 The Show on PS3. I did so in order to get my character up and running and learning the new stuff about the game so that when I picked up my PS4 copy I was good to go. The game had the option to upload my PS3 save to the cloud and transfer it to my PS4 version. So it was only an extra $2 investment.