Is Gamers Club Unlocked Worth Buying?

vendredi 8 mai 2015

Is Gamers Club Unlocked Worth Buying? is a post by Josh Smith from Gotta Be Mobile.

With Best Buy Gamers Club Unlocked you can save 20% off every new game you buy and if you pre-order top games you can save another $10.

Read our Gamers Club Unlocked review to find out how I buy new video games for less than $40 on release day and how you can save on every video game purchase from Best Buy.

In the last six months I haven’t paid full price for a video game, even when buying Call of Duty on the release date and major games.

Read: Major Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Deal

Best Buy Gamers Club Unlocked is a paid service, but it is no longer an expensive $120 subscription. Gamer’s Club Unlocked is just $30 for two years of discounts and benefits.

Best Buy Gamers Club Unlocked is a great deal for most gamers.

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After crunching the numbers and weighing the disadvantages of essentially locking myself into buying my games at Best Buy instead of digitally or from Amazon it’s clear that Gamer’s Club unlocked is a good deal for me.

Here’s a more detailed look at the Best Buy Gamers Club unlocked service, how much I saved and how many games you need to buy to make Gamers Club Unlocked Worth Buying.

What is Gamers Club Unlocked?

Anyone with a My Rewards account at Best Buy gets a free Gamers Club account, but if you pay $30 you get a two-year upgrade to Gamers Club Unlocked. Both memberships include double points on video game software, accessories and digital content, plus 2 points for every dollar when you trade in games. The Gamers Club also includes points on consoles, reward certificates and exclusive offers, but when you upgrade you unlock the real benefits.

20% off New Video Games
10% Trade In Bonus
10% Off Pre-owned Games
Coupons – Buy 2 Get 1 Free Pre-Owned Games, 50% off Strategy Guide

The coupons are only available when you join, but the percent off is valid anytime. You need to go in store to buy the Gamers Club Unlocked membership, but once that is done you can buy games online or in store and save.

Here is what you get with Gamers Club Unlocked.

The only real limit is that you cannot buy more than three of the same game at the discounted price for a specific console. This is to prevent you from buying a bunch of games and reselling them. In six months I’ve never run into an issue with buying too many of a game and I own multiple systems.

The 20% off discount also works when games go on sale later, not just on release day. For example, when Far Cry 4 is on sale at $29.99 Gamers Club Unlocked members pay $24. Battlefield Hardline dropped to $39.99 shortly after release and it was just $32 for members.

You can also use this on special editions for 20% off, which is an especially awesome deal.

Best Buy Gamers Club Unlocked Deals

With a Best Buy Gamers Club Unlocked membership you can save big on every game purchase and you can stack this with the $10 reward bonuses that come with most pre-orders. By combining the two offers I can buy most new games for $38 on release day.

Save 20% on games and an additional $10 in rewards.

That is a $12 up front discount and $10 to use towards a new game or other item later. Here’s a short list of games that are available for what amounts to $38 when you are a Gamers Club Unlocked member

Batman: Arkham Knight
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
The Elder Scrolls Online
Guitar Hero Live
Halo 5: Guardians
The Witcher: Wild Hunt
Mortal Kombat X
Battleborn
Rainbow Six Siege
Mad Max
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Tom Clancy’s: The Division
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Star Wars Battlefront

Last year we saw bonus offers arrive for EA Sports games so it would make sense to see Madden 16 and FIFA 16 added to this list.

Gamers Club Unlocked Review

Even if you only buy 3-4 games a year you’ll save with Gamers Club Unlocked.

After six months with Gamers Club Unlocked I’ve saved about $40, an amount that would have been much higher if I purchased Best Buy Gamers Club Unlocked before the fall release cycle where I bought most of my games. By the end of 2015 I anticipate savings $60 to $70 with the 20% discount and another $70 or so with the $10 reward bonus.

Even if you only buy a few games a year, three new releases will pay for the price of Gamers Club Unlocked and after that the rest of it is all savings.

For anyone who loves to play games and hates waiting for new game deals to arrive, this is an essential purchase.

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