Well, it's good news, bad news time.
I decided to test my luck and purchased Battlefield 2 on July 11th and received it today, Friday the 15th. The box and manual are immaculate and the disk looked great, only some very minor and superficial scratches as far as I can tell. So far, so good.
BUT
I put the game in my 360, it loads up the 360 logo and then……nothing; I stare at the logo for a few seconds and then it defaults to the dashboard. I tried cleaning the disk but no luck. So I head over to a nearby Gamecrazy that has one of those motorized disk cleaning-repair devices and they run it through a few cycles. The clerk was nice enough to try it on their demo unit, but they also got the same result.
The strange thing is that the disk looks like new after the cleaning but I never got a disk read error. I compared it to some of my other games and the disks look identical, even down to the 360 hologram logo that’s on every disk spindle. I don’t believe the disk is fake in any way.
I guess I’ll have to send it back to them (at my expense) and wait for an exchange.
So, at this point I’d say preplaygames is legit but the fact that the disk looked great but didn’t work is cause for concern. I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and hopefully they can get me a new disk in a timely manner but as always... Caveat Emptor