Blockbuster Online Sucks

I used to have blockbuster online. Yes, used to have it. I recently canceled by membership. Why, you may ask. I hated it. At one time, I had both Netflix and Blockbuster online, just to compare them, I found blockbuster was better, in terms of price and availability. I also liked the fact that I could turn in my dvd to get a fresh one at the store. Here’s how it started, I get an email saying that my subscription prices are going up. What? Oh, thanks for telling me I’ll be paying you more for less. I actually wasn’t going to be able to turn my dvds into the store to get new ones. I upgraded, because I wanted that functionality. So now I’m at $9.99. So I go for a month with the Blockbuster account…all seems pretty good. But then, I start getting really crappy dvds, scratched, dirty, and incorrect dvds. Blockbuster allows you to say that your dvd is damaged and they will send your a new (the same dvd or a new one on your queue) dvd. Unfortunately, it takes 2 days just to get a new dvd, so that’s a waste. Finally, I email blockbuster and complain, they send me a free movie or game coupon, that was nice. Okay, so now I’m at 1 month ago, I received an email from blockbuster again, telling me my rate it going up to $11.99, another 2 dollars. I became officially pissed off, you should have seen the email “We will continue to provide you with the same, quick service” Except that were going to be charging you more. So finally, I canceled my account earlier this week. I feel better now, but I just found out that I could’ve turned those dvds into the store for video games (I just got an Xbox 360) too. It’s too bad, but I am not going to reactivate my account to get that feature. Anyways, I think I’ll register with Netflix again, but in the meantime I’ll probably be renting from Hollywood.

Call of Duty 2

I just downloaded Steam for the first time because I bought the Orange Box. After playing Team Fortress religiously for about two weeks, I decided to buy the game Call of Duty 2 to prepare myself for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. So far I love it. It’s not like Halo where you can get lost in a level. In COD 2, it’s very specific and you don’t get lost much. Pretty much the entire game you are mowing down opponents with your machine gun. That is probably one of the downsides of this game, there is not much strategic game play. I haven’t finished the game, I think I’m about halfway through it, but so far it is appealing to me. I suggest you either download it off Steam for $19.99 or buy it off Amazon.

Amazon

Steam