Bad breakups have caused some of the most awkward and terrifying situations in my life. One of the worst involved a girl who just couldn’t let it go. She would call my phone every 20 minutes, bring her car to a crawl in front of my house, and pelt my window with rocks during the evening hours. GameFly reminds me of this girl.
Earlier last year, I cancelled my GameFly subscription. I felt that there wasn’t enough reciprocity in our relationship. I would pay GameFly to send me a few new games every month. GameFly sent me games grudgingly, often months later than what I originally expected. This wasn’t working out for me, so I dumped the service. Like psycho girl, it has been pelting my window ever since.
This morning I received an e-mail about free flash games and it reminded me of our short gallop together. Other e-mails are more direct, pleading and pulling me to come back with the promise of cheaper rates and faster shipping. Will I take it back? I don’t know.
Do many of you use GameFly? Do they get new titles to you any faster than before? Can you rely on the service for your gaming needs? I’ve been missing GameFly, but I need to know that it’s there for me when I need it.
[UPDATE: It has come to my attention that Minus World feels the same way that I do about GameFly. In an August, 2008 article titled “WORLD LAW: GameFly Needs To Quit Acting Like A Psycho Ex-Girlfriend” the writer (“agent b”) recalled his relationship with GameFly in much the same terms. He used the phrase “Psycho Ex-Girlfriend” to describe GameFly’s incessant e-mails and made the comparison to phone calls as I did.
I obviously didn’t know about this article before I crafted mine this morning, but it bears mentioning considering that our two stories deal with similar subject matter.]
