Lovefilm stopping game rentals...
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To concentrate on TV and Films.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-02-lovefilm-ditches-game-rentals
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-02-lovefilm-ditches-game-rentals
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Edit: It says *NEW* customers, so presumably current customers can still rent games? Although I guess they won't be updating their collection...
ill be cancelling if they change it
And what that effectively means is you can kiss any new release goodbye. Essentially making it useless.
Wow, pardon them for not consulting with you first.
I haven't had a game sent off my rental list for nearly a year
Had Black Ops 2 on top ticket rental queued at number 1, and Im still waiting for it, and in fact any gaming disc
I hope they do add more titles, I had noticed they hadn't added any new ones in a while.
A bizarre decision, I would have thought they'd just not add new titles and mention that fact but still allow people to rent back catalogues - especially now we're at the end of a generation.
Hopefully Boomerang will be able to keep up with demand.
http://www.lovefilm.com/c/?token=%253Fu%253D%25252Fcatalog%25252Fgames%25253Funique%25253Dseries%252526mature%25253D1%252526type%25253Dseries%25252BOR%25252Bfeature%25252BOR%25252Bfilm%25252BOR%25252Bgame%252526f%25253Dhotlist%2525257Ccoming_soon%252526adult%25253D0%2526m%253DGET
I wouldn't bother with blockbuster, there stock holding of games released in the last year seems to be almost zero.
The person I spoke to at Lovefilm sounded as if they'd had to process a lot of cancellations after this news, and they did confirm they were stopping games rentals, but didn't say any more than that.
Boomerang is a bit more expensive on the unlimited packages, but I've been impressed with the service so far. My free trial game was sent out within an hour of signing up, and I particularly like what they've done with the rental queue where it shows you which games are in stock and approximate waiting times for out of stock ones. You can also tell it to only send you games from the top 1/3/5/10 games in your list (useful if you really want a specific game) or just use all games like Lovefilm did.
A commenter heard the same 8th August date from the same customer service team, and wrote to Eurogamer this morning to bring it to our attention. Thank you that person.
Boomerang are fabulous. No I don't work for the company Never wait longer than a few days for titles. The only time I have waited was when i wanted to get defiance and put it onto my top 3. I put all the games on I can then I get a surprise when something Ive never heard of comes through the door. The service is excellent. This is the way companes should be run.
It seemed like that to me, Game got the 2nd hand market and it looked like Blockbuster got the rental market, were Lovefilm cut out of the loop?