jesskitten: A friend of mine uses them exclusively for "demos" because the first 30 minutes of every/many games is free to play or something like that heh. (I'm not sure, something like that, just going by what he said, I haven't tried it nor looked up its details in that respect.)
But yeah, overall I haven't been super impressed. Haven't touched them other than to glance at their catalogue when it pops into my inbox every now and then.. they also have Darksiders sale going for $5 (try it free! zomg!) but probably not worth it compared to one of the other options out there.
jlg6184: Yeah, I was invited to their beta back in the day, thought it was a cool concept, until I realized it was a rental service, granted they do offer decent prices for said service, and they are great if you want to playtest a game to get a feel for if you will like it, but other than that, no deal there is good enough for me to consider using them, period.
Well I imagine they're useful for gaming on computers/laptops where you don't have or want to download/install huge files, or have decent but not good enough hardware for some newer games, you bypass per-machine activation DRM since you don't have to install them, and you can "permanently" buy access to individual games and those go on sale fairly often too, and they have their own hardware and stuff you can buy, but.. yeah. It's even more tenuous than say Steam, in that they can't even make the promise you'll still have access if the service ever closes down since they don't have a downloading framework in place.. Agreed mostly. I think I still have a couple free games on there that they were giving away some time ago though. Like two. Don't remember which two. :P