GameFly's Austin center 'officially' open, servicing seven states

sweet! i live in houston so that makes me a very happy renter.

Good news. I've been considering a subscription and this is probably the nudge I needed.

...Seriously, though, guys...read that headline a couple of times and tell me it doesn't sound, ya' know...smutty? XD

I really like his outfit.

I had gamefly for about 4 months.. turnaround time was never the problem, it was always unavailable games at the top of my queue getting overlooked. I figure I might as well buy games that I really like instead of playing a lot of mediocre ones because of their stock problems.

I'm in Indiana and it takes 4 business days for them to show I've returned my game. If the next game is mailed out that day it will take 3 busines days for it to get here. 7 days for turn around is still a bit much. Even worse if most of the games in your 'Q' are medium availability or worse. Then your looking at 10 day turn around.

I have a three game plan so it isn't too bad.

Also the 'Fast Return' option seems to happen about once out of every 12 - 15 returns I have to them. That just sucks...

They need to do like Netflix and open one in Greensboro, NC........then I can get my games in a day........lol

yea that not having the games available is a deal breaker. and why are they taking so long to open up new shipping plants. they been around for years now and they only recently opened this one and the one in PA

I agree that not getting the hottest games is a bummer but if you own multiple systems it's a life saver. My 360 achievement points are in debt to Gamefly, and when I need a cooldown I just rent a wii game I would have never bought. For me it works out great since I always buy the "Must Have" titles.

This is a good thing IMO and has kept me from canceling my service. I was getting tired of waiting for over a week for a game, now it's much faster and plus I get a game shipped and to my house in 2 days!! Good job gamefly keep it up!

Netflix, why won't you buy these guys up?!?

Awesome news. I don't ever wait more than a couple/three days for games as it is so this rocks. More distribution centers equal more games! Sweet!

I'm not feeling the game availability issues at all. Sure, in the early days things were slow and game availability was less than stellar but now things are rockin. Gamefly shipped GTA4 to me the day it got released... same with Bioshock.

It does help to have your queue managed well though so maybe that's why people are having a hard time getting what they want. I keep my queue maxed at 5 or 6 games and I don't put a bunch of filler in there. Only the top games on my list. I save the fluff for in between big titles releasing. If you get in there an tweak your queue often you're pretty much guaranteed to get the stuff you want. Just keep it filled with games you really want.

Fast Return only works as well as the post office you're using, meaning, if your dropping your games into a mailbox that's being processed through a post office that doesn't use it you're outta luck. Experiment with different mailboxes and see what happens. You'll know when you hit the mailbox jackpot.

They didnt ship MGS to me, and it now has a low availability. Lame. They have done this to me before. Seems to happen when they open up a new shipping center. I know that they will release a better version of MGS at a later date with more included, so I dont want to buy it. ARRGGG.

You can see a video of the facility here:
http://www.austin360.com/digitalsavant

I canceled my gamefly subscription after two months. Their game availability was horrendous. I did a test by putting all of my low and medium availability games on the top of my list. Guess which game i got? My 9th title, "Heavenly Sword", which had a high availability and was out since the fall.

I have Gamefly right now. I have 10 rentable games in my Q right now...none of them on the way. I hate waiting for a game. They need more games in circulation, not just another building to ship them from.

Damn... What about Nebraska? Four day turnaround time (although last time it was five).