Did you get Gamefly'd in the D2D transition?

[Eel O'Brian]

So Gamefly bought out D2D. Supposedly they were gonna send out an email if anything you bought from D2D wasn't going over to Gamefly in the merge, but I never received any such email (and neither did anyone else, as far as I can tell).  When I logged in to GF all the stuff in my purchase history  was showing as "ready for download" so I didn't think anything of it.  Then I just read this:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=460416

Turns out you actually have to download the Gamefly client to find out how many of your games still exist, even if they show up as "ready for download" on your GF account purchase history.

Out of the 15 games/expansions I'd bought on D2D over the years, only 2 made the transition. 6 of the games I had activated/rebought on Steam, so I don't really care if I ever get those back, but unless they are still transferring everything (very doubtful), looks like I might be losing upwards of 7 purchased games.  Well, not exactly losing, because I intend to use my internet replacement warranty on every single one, but still.

Have you checked your D2D/Gamefly purchase history? How much did they get you for?

[Bebpo]

I'm not even checking since I never ended up playing anything I bought on D2D anyhow and it was all for <$5 so at most I lost $30.  Not going to download their client.

I remember buying Riddick Dark Athena, Company of Heroes Gold, SupCom Gold, Thief 4, and the final DoW1 Expansion.  Oh and Frontlines Fuel of War. 

/shrug, more stuff for steam sales.

[demi]

GF client is cool, I'm thinking of re-installing it to try out King's Bounty. A nice freebie to my subscription.

Which they sent me that co-op Ratchet game... should be fun single player... hopefully...

[Stoney Mason]

I never bothered to check. I probably lost all my shit since I didn't update anything although I probably had like 5 or less games on the service. They were worth very little at this point.

[Bebpo]

Which they sent me that co-op Ratchet game... should be fun single player... hopefully...

Sorry man, it sucks   Made by Insomniac Z-team

[chronovore]

Out of the 15 games/expansions I'd bought on D2D over the years, only 2 made the transition. 6 of the games I had activated/rebought on Steam, so I don't really care if I ever get those back, but unless they are still transferring everything (very doubtful), looks like I might be losing upwards of 7 purchased games.  Well, not exactly losing, because I intend to use my internet replacement warranty on every single one, but still.

What the heck is that?

[cool breeze]

I probably lost a free copy of Mafia 1.  I haven't bothered to check.  I have a boxed copy somewhere in my garage too.

But yeah, this is a problem with DD games.  It's why I generally don't use anything other than Steam or GoG; both have fairly comprehensive backup plans.

[pilonv1]

I think the only things I bought from there were Drakensang and Kings Bounty, both of which I ended up getting in cheap Steam sales. So no big loss for me.

[TakingBackSunday]

More generally, I wondered what you all thought about the pricing model for Gamefly.  Do you think its worth...20 some odd dollars per month?  I'm not sure I do, and I'd tell them to observe Netflix's model a bit more.  Perhaps they need to adopt a model similar to theirs, where, say, they only add games two months after their initial release?  Makes a cheaper subscription viable and also lets publishers able to focus on initial release periods.  Perhaps better sales numbers?

I would rather pay, say, 9 bucks a month for a two or three month old game (like Uncharted 3, for example) than pay 20 a month for Soul Caliber 5 at this very moment.  Maybe that's just me.

[cool breeze]

I could imagine a cheaper Gamefly if/when every game is available as a digital download day and date, or is digital renting, or something like that.  I don't think Gamefly has much competition, or at least nearly as much as Netflix.  Gamefly is basically following Netflix's model, only without a bunch of competitors and studios buttfucking them.  You still have smaller movies like Drive on dvd/blu-ray release, but for the bigger ones, you have Comcast or whatever advertising that they have it before Redbox and Netflix.  I dunno.  The games and movie industries are really different.

[TakingBackSunday]

Yeah, I really have no idea how the royalty splits are in gaming.  I'd love to learn.  But maybe they could follow a mish mash of the Netflic model and the Steam model?  Throw in an iTunes perspective as well?

[Stoney Mason]

I would rather pay, say, 9 bucks a month for a two or three month old game (like Uncharted 3, for example) than pay 20 a month for Soul Caliber 5 at this very moment.  Maybe that's just me.

I use my gamefly to play the new games I want but don't want to buy so that wouldn't work for me but I could see something like charging a lower amount but only being able to rent games that have been released for 6 months or a year or some other arbitrary length.

[chronovore]

chronovore is so delightfully innocent at times

10 years of living with Japan's consumer-hostile pricing and policies; I am like a newborn babe.

[Eric P]

I got the email and I dl all my games before the transition.  I mentioned it in the "what are you playing" thread.

I haven't even bothered to check what made the transition because I grabbed everything already.

[demi]

More generally, I wondered what you all thought about the pricing model for Gamefly.  Do you think its worth...20 some odd dollars per month?  I'm not sure I do, and I'd tell them to observe Netflix's model a bit more.  Perhaps they need to adopt a model similar to theirs, where, say, they only add games two months after their initial release?  Makes a cheaper subscription viable and also lets publishers able to focus on initial release periods.  Perhaps better sales numbers?

I would rather pay, say, 9 bucks a month for a two or three month old game (like Uncharted 3, for example) than pay 20 a month for Soul Caliber 5 at this very moment.  Maybe that's just me.

$20 is pennies, get a job. Amazing value for gaming. $9 is fine for a movie you watch in 1 hour.

[Eel O'Brian]

I got the email and I dl all my games before the transition.  I mentioned it in the "what are you playing" thread.

I haven't even bothered to check what made the transition because I grabbed everything already.

I got an initial email about the change, but in it they said they'd let anyone know if specific games they'd purchased weren't going to make it. I never got a follow up so I just figured everything was fine (it's all pretty mainstream stuff).  Maybe some of the other games will make it over eventually, as I can't see them wanting to generate that much ill will right off the bat. They have to know no one's ever going to buy anything from them if all they do is shrug it off and say "well, we did send a vaguely worded email." Guess I should have picked up on the underlying message!

[chronovore]

chronovore is so delightfully innocent at times

10 years of living with Japan's consumer-hostile pricing and policies; I am like a newborn babe.

Well, just to clear it up for you, his internet replacement warranty is from the internet store.  At the internet store, everything is free!  They have games, movies, music, porn, and more!

Oh, oh, oh... THAT "internet store." (I am now laughing at myself, thanks.)

[Joe Molotov]

Like I'm gonna buy games from D2D, come on!

[benjipwns]

Like I'm gonna buy games from D2D, come on!

Hey, I have. Both times they were titles that registered on Steam.

[TakingBackSunday]

More generally, I wondered what you all thought about the pricing model for Gamefly.  Do you think its worth...20 some odd dollars per month?  I'm not sure I do, and I'd tell them to observe Netflix's model a bit more.  Perhaps they need to adopt a model similar to theirs, where, say, they only add games two months after their initial release?  Makes a cheaper subscription viable and also lets publishers able to focus on initial release periods.  Perhaps better sales numbers?

I would rather pay, say, 9 bucks a month for a two or three month old game (like Uncharted 3, for example) than pay 20 a month for Soul Caliber 5 at this very moment.  Maybe that's just me.

$20 is pennies, get a job. Amazing value for gaming. $9 is fine for a movie you watch in 1 hour.

I have a job doofus.  I already pay ~35 bucks a month combining Netflix, Spotify, and Hulu.  I would rather not add around 50% of my existing entertainment fees just for gaming.