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Mr Puggsly on 27 October 2010

When you log in they have all the latest games at your disposal. However... look how long I have to wait before I can rent them.

Fable III - Available: 02/04/2011
Fallout New Vegas - Available: 02/01/2011
Medal of Honor - Available: 01/25/2011

See the trend here? LAME!!!!! I'm shocked they can get away with promoting newer games to get people to sign up yet they won't offer them for months.

Regardless, I'm going to stick with it for atleast a month or two. Its only $14 for 2 games at once. Still plenty of older games I want to play like Red Dead, Metro 2033, Bioshock 2, etc.



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Tanstalas on 27 October 2010

Wow, that is lame.  $14 for 2 games though is decent, especially since this year we have been carpet bombed with games - not so much in the summer, but first 4 months of this year and now again.. barely had time to beat Reach before FFXIV came out, now FFXIV is shelved because I'm playing Fable 3 and I also picked up TFU2 yesterday as well.. and in a few weeks new CoD and AC:Brotherhood..

MS and Sony are beating my wallet like a red headed stepchild.

 

PS. Nice Avatar



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ishiki on 27 October 2010

Well it's blockbuster

I assume you got it instead of gamefly because it's cheaper I think my brother pays (23$ a month)?



mchaza on 27 October 2010

blockbuster is bankrupt, they wont be around much longer. 



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Mr Puggsly on 27 October 2010
mchaza said:

blockbuster is bankrupt, they wont be around much longer. 

Bankrupt doesn't mean the company will disappear. They are going to same direction as Netflix and Redbox.



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mchaza on 27 October 2010
Mr Puggsly said:
mchaza said:

blockbuster is bankrupt, they wont be around much longer. 

Bankrupt doesn't mean the company will disappear. They are going to same direction as Netflix and Redbox.

how can they come in now and compete against Redbox, netflix, PSN, xblm and more ISP and electronic companies all offering digital distribution of movies. they came too late and technology got the better of them, so they must find a way to do a Kodak or they will disappear   



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Mr Puggsly on 27 October 2010
ishiki said:

Well it's blockbuster

I assume you got it instead of gamefly because it's cheaper I think my brother pays (23$ a month)?

Yeah. I've used Gamefly in the past as well. The problem with Gamefly though is there is no guarantee you'll get newer games soon.

I thought I'd give Blockbuster a try to see how it compares. But I wasn't expecting a 3 month delay.



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Mr Puggsly on 27 October 2010
mchaza said:
Mr Puggsly said:
mchaza said:

blockbuster is bankrupt, they wont be around much longer. 

Bankrupt doesn't mean the company will disappear. They are going to same direction as Netflix and Redbox.

how can they come in now and compete against Redbox, netflix, PSN, xblm and more ISP and electronic companies all offering digital distribution of movies. they came too late and technology got the better of them, so they must find a way to do a Kodak or they will disappear   

You don't need to be number one to make money.

Also, is alternatives in the market such a bad thing? It forces Redbox and Netflix to be more competitive.



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CDiablo on 27 October 2010

They addressed this earlier on some Q&A. I know they are working on getting the mail in games to be rentable quicker. You can still get those games in store.



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mchaza on 28 October 2010
Mr Puggsly said:
mchaza said:
Mr Puggsly said:
mchaza said:

blockbuster is bankrupt, they wont be around much longer. 

Bankrupt doesn't mean the company will disappear. They are going to same direction as Netflix and Redbox.

how can they come in now and compete against Redbox, netflix, PSN, xblm and more ISP and electronic companies all offering digital distribution of movies. they came too late and technology got the better of them, so they must find a way to do a Kodak or they will disappear   

You don't need to be number one to make money.

Also, is alternatives in the market such a bad thing? It forces Redbox and Netflix to be more competitive.

well blockbuster has lost majority of there consumers to these other companies and i dont think they are just going to come back. also i named like a heap more. I live in Aus and we dont have redbox or netflix but we have PSN, XBLM, bigpond movies, tivo, LG one and much much more. 

There is just too many companies in an over saturated market and majority of them do other things and have movie rentals as a supplement.

Blockbuster is finished unless they do a Kodak 



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