THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: GilloD on March 27, 2008, 12:52:04 PM

Title: Gamerang or Blockbuster Game Pass reviews?
Post by: GilloD on March 27, 2008, 12:52:04 PM
Anyone used them? I'm getting really sick of Gamefly. Even with a new distro center in Pittsburgh (About 300 miles away), it's been 6 days I sent off my games and they haven't received them. Figure if the way back is even HALF of that, that's a NINE DAY turn around, which is atrocious. Gamerang has a distro center in Jersey, which sounds great, but are they useful? I've also considered getting a Blockbuster Game Pass. I have 3 BBs within reasonable distance of my house, but how are they with stock and availability?
Title: Re: Gamerang or Blockbuster Game Pass reviews?
Post by: GilloD on March 27, 2008, 01:13:29 PM
I decided to try out Gamerang. Prices are similar enough, I figured I'm wasting my money for sure with GF, at least Gamerang might do me some good.

Thoughts: The Gamerang website kind of blows and they force you into a "free" Wired subscription at sign up, but if you're smart nough you can mail CondenNast and get a 9 dollar refund within 6 weeks. The "Wii" section of their website just seems to redirect to a random console, but I was able to find stuff using the Search function. A lot of things seem to be on "Short Wait", but we'll see.
Title: Re: Gamerang or Blockbuster Game Pass reviews?
Post by: GilloD on March 27, 2008, 01:14:51 PM
On the plus side, I could literally drive to the shipping distro in about 20 minutes.
Title: Re: Gamerang or Blockbuster Game Pass reviews?
Post by: GilloD on March 27, 2008, 01:22:53 PM
Worth considering: When I canceled my GF account, they offered me a 30% discount to stay on board. Can't hurt to try, it popped up before it let me cancel.
Title: Re: Gamerang or Blockbuster Game Pass reviews?
Post by: GilloD on March 27, 2008, 01:25:09 PM
Last post,r eally. I'm starting to be a little spooked, nearly everything on Gamerang is on "Short Wait". We'lls ee what happens.
Title: Re: Gamerang or Blockbuster Game Pass reviews?
Post by: demi on March 27, 2008, 03:18:32 PM
I'd sooner use Gameznflix
Title: Re: Gamerang or Blockbuster Game Pass reviews?
Post by: GilloD on March 27, 2008, 03:51:23 PM
I'd sooner use Gameznflix

Gamerang just shipped Army of Two and Smash Bros. and they should be here in fewer than 3 days. So far, so good.
Title: Re: Gamerang or Blockbuster Game Pass reviews?
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on March 27, 2008, 04:33:08 PM
I have the BB gamepass for the past couple of years now and I've been pretty happy.  I've got a BB just a few blocks away from my house and they have a pretty wide selection (though the PS3 stuff is a little meger) and tend to get the newly released titles every week...which is usually on their shelves by Friday morning.

Defiintely worth the 20-some odd dollars I dole out every month.