Poll: For any Australian PC gamers....

[Vault101]

Ok so where do you buy your games?

steam retail or other?

 

[Nunny]

Weres the both option, i change depending on the availability of games instore

 

[Jelly ^.^]

Abandonia and gog.com, lols

EDIT:

And the Hong Kong importers on EBay for anything else

 

[khiliani]

steam all the way, they tend to be $10 cheaper give or take, only ***** is downloading the things.

 

[jesskit]

hmm well ive bought from all over the place, for years. i guess ive been buying more from steam and other digital distro places lately, partly cause that is the best way to get mac games, but also i usually go where ever has the best price

 

[Nexus4]

Steam.

[HEADING=1]FUCK[/HEADING] EB games. They still charge $90 for a used copy of Modern Warfare 2.

That reminds me, I found a used copy of Dead Rising 2 in EB for $99.95 and next to it was a brand new copy for $70. Somehow used copies are more valuable than new copies

 

[Thaluikhain]

Abandonia and gog.com, lols

Ah, good ole abandonia...loads of great stuff there, some of it even works.

 

[tombman888]

Steam mostly, retail for games not on Steam or if i just really want it on that specific console.

 

[MercurySteam]

Steam.

[HEADING=1]FUCK[/HEADING] EB games. They still charge $90 for a used copy of Modern Warfare 2.

EB rips off every gamer in Oz left, right and center. They're usually a last resort for me.

JB HiFi is my most reliable store, though it's hard to get to and I don't have much choice since the local Gametraders closed down.

 

[Darth_Dude]

Steam.

[HEADING=1]FUCK[/HEADING] EB games. They still charge $90 for a used copy of Modern Warfare 2.

EB rips off every gamer in Oz left, right and center. They're usually a last resort for me.

JB HiFi is my most reliable store, though it's hard to get to and I don't have much choice since the local Gametraders closed down.

In one of my shopping centres, There's an Gametraders which was doing pretty good business, then EB opens up a store not 50 metres away, despite already having a shop in the other shooping centre in town. Talk about aggressive marketing...So anyways, the management of the Gametraders has made the store all kiddy-friendly and pulled out the mario plushies in an effort to increase sales, You know you're scraping the bottom of the barrel when you do that, poor guys :|

 

[Jellly]

Well I used to use EB, but their prices are ridiculous so I only use them now to get games for free. What you do is you buy a game, install it, make a copy of the cd or get a cd crack and then return the game within 7 days for a full refund. Even though you are not supposed to get refunds for Steam games I have at least 3 games that I have returned for all my money that are steam activated.

Anyway after EB I used Steam but I really dislike it now due to how it seems to be associated with this whole DRM bullshit pulled lately.

So now I just use GAME, it's decent.

 

[Skobvs]

Steam, I was retail up till a few months ago, but the ISP's are being a little bit more generous in terms of bandwidth so I made the change to steam.

 

[Vault101]

hahah I must be the only PC gamer in the country to go full retail

they must stock the shelves only for me I feel special now

 

[VanQ]

No option for importing them? I import about 75% of my games, get 20% from steam and the other 5% from JB Hifi (our equivilant of BestBuy) when I really want them right away, which isn't too often lately. Also, JB's does all new releases for $70, about $40 cheaper than everyone else if you buy it in the first week after release.

 

[Shade184]

I don't really like EB, they have some good stuff but I always get really cold service there. Gametraders is where I go, because they really know their stuff and they'll talk with you about it.

As for steam... fuck steam.

 

[MattyDienhoff]

Most often, I buy games on Steam. When that's not an option (or not preferable for some reason) I buy games on eBay (almost always from a store in Melbourne called "Dungeon Crawl").

 

[Latinidiot]

There's this game store in my town, wit a very enthouiastic owner. He's behind the counter. Yeah. I buy my games there. They're 5 eurosmore expensive when buying new, but They're the only ones that also sell used copies.

 

[Drummodino]

[HEADING=3]STEAMSTEAMSTEAMSTEAMSTEAMSTEAMSTEAMSTEAM[/HEADING]
I only use steam

 

[Cazza]

Both

Retail for most games even if I can get it from steam. I use steam mainly for game packs and smaller games.