Well, I signed up for gamefly a few weeks back. Seemed like a really good deal considering I rent a lot of games... and rentals have gotten expensive.

I rented Trauma Center; Second Opinion and Dragon Ball Z for the Wii. Trauma Center is great... I've been playing it quite a bit while the DBZ game sat there. I put in the DBZ game once... didn't really dig it, so I sent it back.

Now, here's where the trouble begins. I dropped DBZ in the mail box Thursday night. Been checking the Gamefly site the past few days, and they just now got it back this morning (Tuesday). The next game in my "Game Q" is Tiger Woods 07... but there's a "short wait". Well, that's nice... I'm paying for this service, and so are many others at $23 a month, but they can't get enough copies of the games to get them rented out promptly and can't get the games I want. Fine, whatever... the next "Now Available" game on the list is "We Love Katamari"... a game I've been wanting to check out for ages. I check the site, and it says that game is now being shipped.... okay, fine. It would be nice if I could choose whether I want to wait for the #1 game in my "Q", but I'll take Katamari. At least something is being sent. Then, I check again a couple hours later.... and.... nothing is being sent now. Not Katamari, not Tiger Woods... just.... nothing. So I change Katamari to #1, hoping they'll decide to send it to me again. Check back later... nope, nothing.

Now, I'm paying $23 a month for this service.... even if they finally decide they want to send me a game tomorrow, by the time it gets here it'll be over a week without one of the two games I get at a time. 1/4 of the month without one of my games... it's starting to look like it's not worth it. I could go up to the rental store right now and probably get Tiger Woods. Sure, I can only keep it for a week... but at least I can get it, and don't have to wait over a week to get rentals.

We'll see what happens in the coming days, but right now I'm thinking Gamefly might not be all I was hoping it to be.....