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Pondering the double whammy of not really being massively interested in the current 360 line up and being totally appalled by the prices - I thought I might give one of these rental firms a go.

I've signed up to this place.

http://www.boomerangrentals.co.uk

They do a 21 day trial so there's no risk. And for a bit over 3 quid a week I can have up to 2 games out at any time.

All of a sudden, at this price, I'm quite interested in trying most of the games and I've got 16 games on my order list!

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http://www.gametart.com is another one to try. I haven't yet but I love the concept.

It's tempting to sign up for a load of them with the free trials but I'll just end up forgetting to cancel and paying a fortune.

I think Stuart Campbell did a trial of the DVD places by just doing the free trials for about a year or so.

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Yeah, I did a couple of film ones. Like you said though, I think it'll be better with games than films, which you'll be sending back the next day, mostly.

Games though - keep them for a couple of days.. a week, complete it, send it back, two at one go, 5 or 6 games a month properly seen to for the cost of a budget game.

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I'm sure this is 'bad for the industry' and all that but when the industry wants to charge me 50 quid for a PS2 port then they can fuck right off.

Do publishers sell these games to these sites at an increased price? Essentially a license to rent them out? I think it costs the likes of blockbuster extra to buy a particular DVD does't it? ;)

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Hmm, it's a good idea, but if it's anything like Blockbusters and Tesco's online DVD serveis I would'nt bother.

You never got new releases from them (I waited about 5 months before Closer turned up for example). I guess it's fine if you just want to catch up with older games you missed first time around, but you may have to wait a while for the newer releases...

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New York Mikey

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It's a nice idea, based on the whole netflix thing, but ultimately a flawed concept IMO. Games cost far more for an online venture to buy in for resale than DVD's, and the turnaround time with customers is much longer. So, they'll need a proportionately larger investment to have enough copies of new games (which they have to buy at premium prices) and before long sequelitus will have reduced their stock to a very low value. The margins can't be pretty, and the competition is fierce.

So, just don't sign up for any more than a month at a time is my advice. Just in case.

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I had a play around with a few of the Australian ones that offer DVDs and games for a feature I wrote last year.

The comment about new releases is spot-on -- in my experience, you only ever get the older games, which are invariably scratched to hell, or poorly repaired. For a DVD, that's sometimes not as much of an issue (minor skips, etc, for a movie is bearable although never desireable) but for a game it's terminal. And some of the games I was getting looked like they'd been used as emergency jam sandwich holders before they got to me. They do all offer a "this disc is damaged" return service, but all that means is that you return it, they don't charge *you* for it (although presumably they backtrack, so dodgy types could damage a disc and then claim it was you), but it still counts against your total until you get another game in.

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Well, I'm a student now and there's a whole bunch of 360 games that Iwant to play through but don't need to keep for a long time, and can't afford to buy in the first place. So I signed up to SwapGame a while back, they've been great, works just like the Blockbuster and Amazon DVD rentals did when I was signed up to those. I've no experience of new releases yet, but they put a separate list in your account for games coming up soon, so I'd guess whoever put them on the list first will get the games first. Until Ridge Racer comes out I won't know how good they are with the new releases, but aside from that issue it's all been smooth sailing.

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I've been a subscriber to swapgame.com for over a year now. It's probably saved me a fucktonne of money and allowed me to play through many titles I would have never experienced otherwise. I say go for it, I have two minor gripes though.

1.) There website is slow and shit, and logging on can feel like a lottery and

2.) they have a strange habit of always sending me the games I am least interested in out of my entire wish list.

Other than that it's great, a perfect solution to the high price of games and the number of titles I want to play through (for research purposes of course)

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Funnily I was going to post about this yesterday, but never got round to it.

Some good points raised here, regarding company turnaround and such, so I think I'll try a few one month trials.

With 360 games going for £40 at the least, this sounds ideal until prices begin to fall.

3 games in one month sounds decent enough with the Boomerang trial, and as many games as you want one at a time for £10 per month sounds good too.

What do the percentages beside each game mean though? Rating or popularity, or maybe availability?

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I got Amped 3 from them today. It was the last game on my want list, so I'm assuming it's going to be very hard getting one of the more popular games.

Still, it's here, I didn't pay for it, I get a freepost address to send it back to and it's in perfect condition. Shame it's not a very good game.

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I haven't received anything yet, not even a mail to say none of my games are available.

I even put a couple of older games (Kotor 2) on in the hope that would come.

Not much of a 21 day trial if they don't send you anything for the first 3 days.

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