terencecah
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I would do this
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Gamestop Power Pass: $60, 6 Months for Game Rentals, Keep Last Game You Rented
- Thread starter Whizkid7
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Yeah, true. I forget that people do tend to wish to keep games in this day and age. Totally skipped out on that other portion. I've been transitioning to digital purchases these days, for ease of access. I live about 30 mins from a Gamestop. Plus they are always closed when I get out of work. So.. just easier for me. However, this is a pretty damn good deal I may have to make time to consume.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Genuinely curious, which area is this ? I've never experienced anything like that in the 3, 4 Gamestop's I frequent in my city.
DracoBlade
Member
As a part time at one of the biggest stores in the country, this doesn't happen. I suppose it happens with other places though and it has lead to scandals in the past. At my place and many others in the area, though, only preowned, non hot (i.e. games released a week or more) games we have more than two copies of.
Crankshaft
Member
Gamefly is used games. Gamefly for me has like a week turn around time. The most I could rent is 2 games a month with shipping. This gamestop thing sounds like I can stop in anytime.
WouldYouKindly
Banned
i do this anyway with preowned games you can take em back within 7 days maybe they finally got tired of people like me abusing their rerurn policy
It's advertising for them - having a customer come in and out of their stores, having to walk past all Think Geek merch to pickup their next rental. It's only bad on frugal customers who would never buy anything else in the store.
LordRaptor
Member
"Its a shame single player games are dying out" / "Man what a great deal gamestop has that means I never have to buy a singleplayer game again!"
ShadowFox08
Member
Wow. Sounds like a very good deal. I know there's single player games I'll never touch again after I beat them, including odyssey and breath of the wild.
Been 7 months and I haven't beaten botw yet though.
Been 7 months and I haven't beaten botw yet though.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Some games need more than that, especially RPGs or JRPGs but yeah, I thought about doing this a few times but always feels like i'm doing something horrible. But that's just me.
Rural Georgia. You open up a game case and the smell invade your nostrils. I've had to take the game back and say something to the guy (usually) behind the counter. He takes a whiff, recoils, and goes to look for another case.
Someone somewhere at that Gamestop thought it was 'sellable' or had the worst f*ckin' sinus infection in the history of humankind.
metareferential
Member
We need something like this for digital games on pc.
I've been saying it for a long time: give us a premium sub on Steam and let me play whatever the fuck I want.
I've been saying it for a long time: give us a premium sub on Steam and let me play whatever the fuck I want.
In fairness, it all depends on how fast people trade in their newer releases. For example, I traded in MvC:I after a few weeks after I got my fill. Mind you the copy I traded in is still there, but I would imagine that either A) that game would also be up for grabs or B) there could be some limits on "Just released/just traded in" games.
Then again, if you only use the service once to get a game that cost $30 and kept that the whole time, you kind of wasted your money. As such if this does come into play, I'll definitely be rotating out the library as much as possible and as it nears the end, pick one game that is worth keeping.
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As for the "Why?" I think everyone here already hit the nail on the head already: You get people into the store. You bring them in to "rent" a game, and then if there's anything else from ThinkGeek or other games they want to get that they don't want to just "rent out," you can hook them and get them to get more. Borrow a game that is for $40 and then buy a game that's for $20-30 while you're at it. Wouldn't be much different from Blockbuster selling movies you could buy while you rent movies too.
Puddington
Member
Gamestop is a hellscape of sadness, don't give them money.
Shouta
Member
Data is probably it, actually. Financially, it doesn't make sense but they can sell the data or use it and potentially get more customers where it does make more sense.
PrinnyBomb
Member
Seems like a solid deal, I think it's better than it was last time they offered it, but don't quote me on that.
I really don't like renting games but I would def bite on this if I wasn't in the working world.
I really don't like renting games but I would def bite on this if I wasn't in the working world.
Amory
Member
I bought a "new" 3DS game in an open case one time and was unsurprised to find a save file on it.
I'm sure it's not everywhere.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
GameFly games don't smell like this.
thatJohann
Member
LOL nice rhyme, yeah.
foxdvd
Member
60 dollars for 6 months. Make sure you pick a new game that is still trading for 30ish bucks as your final game. Trade that game in, so you actually spend about 30 bucks for 6 months....at two games a month that works out to 2.5 a game...and say what you want about Gamestop, but they usually have a LOT of games available, even new games.
For a heavy user who will rent 4 games a month this is an even better deal.
For a heavy user who will rent 4 games a month this is an even better deal.
babyshaq90
Member
This sounds good. Instead of waiting for used games to drop in price i can pick up newish games over the 6 months if they have it. $60 over 6 months isnt really alot and then trading in the one you keep to drop the price even more seems to work out in the consumers favor to me.
JHoNNy1OoO
Member
Will definitely jump on this to go through a bunch of games. I used to be subbed to Gamefly but what always bothered me was the turn around time, the "randomness" of the games you received and of course the lost in the mail/stolen games. With several Gamestops near me and as long as there is no funny business with the stock once this program goes online, it should fit my needs.
digita1alchemy
Member
We had a local game store here that did this, but the problem was that anything good was always checked out and you were paying whether you had a game you wanted to play or not. Granted, they didn't have nearly as good of a selection of used games as most Gamestops do.
Wow. I just talked to a GameStop employee about 3 weeks ago.. I was like hey with all these used games why dont you guys rent games to people they are just sitting there anyways. He said well if you buy pre owned you have 7 days to return it .. its kind of like renting and he incouraged me to do it.
The only thing is .. I wish we can rent 3 games at a time.
Douche McBaggins The 3rd
Junior Member
Not gonna lie. This is a great deal. I also once scratched my ass with a gamestop disc i took back. But thats a story for another time.
Royce McCutcheon
Junior Member
They literally lose no money doing this. The only question is how much they make.
zenspider
Member
This is exactly where mind went too!
Would be a good deal for me if I didn't already have such a huge backlog. Gamefly for me has always been a disappointment, for some reason it takes them forever to get games to me. Even when it says available for some reason if it isn't at the closer distribution point to me they don't ship it.
I wonder if there will be games "off limits" to this service. If not, I think this is a great idea.
It gets to have Gamestop attempt to stay competitive, front loads the cost of a game, and essentially calls out what most people have been using the service for.
I also now wonder if they'll change the policy for return on Used games.
Either way, much potential. I don't even buy used games and I find this an interesting principle.
It gets to have Gamestop attempt to stay competitive, front loads the cost of a game, and essentially calls out what most people have been using the service for.
I also now wonder if they'll change the policy for return on Used games.
Either way, much potential. I don't even buy used games and I find this an interesting principle.
MoneyLaunderer
Member
Pass. Don't want any reason to give GameStop money.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Man, some Gaffers have some real weird gamestop's in their areas. I have been using GS to get pre owned games for over a year now and have not had any issues with any discs from them so far.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
Glorified Blockbuster.
I did this for their summer pass and it's pretty awesome. I'm fortunate I live in area where's there's like 10 gamestops around. I just used the app to find a game I want and it'll tell me if it's in stock preowned at a store. It'll never be day and date like gamefly, but I remember some stores getting like destiny 2 a week later. And at the end I got to keep splatoon 2, it's definitely worth it for 6 months.
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