Poll: So pc gamers . Do you still buy your pc games at retail stores?

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Yes I do. I like having a box and the disk. There's nothing like it.

 

[Kilroy17]

I prefer to buy at a retail store(mainly to avoid downloading through steam and chowing the internet) but sometimes it really is much easier, cheaper and my main reason for sometimes not buying from retail stores is they may not stock what I want.

 

[Spaghetti]

If it's a new release I'll sometimes get it from a retail store after shopping around of If I've got some points on my GAME card. If it's something older or obscure, I'll use Amazon.

My internet connection is crap so Steam will often be a last resort.

 

[Jevgenij Stepanov]

Well that depends, is say Amazon a Retailer or E-tailer or what? Cause yes I buy boxed copies, but all from Amazon, last game I bought in a shop? Funnily enough it was the many times mentioned FallOut 3.. Hmmm...

 

[Seventh Actuality]

No, because only about half of the retail stores even stock PC games nowadays and the ones that do don't exactly have a dazzling selection. That, and between DVDs and games I'm kind of short of space to put shit, so digital copies make life a lot easier.

 

[Drenaje1]

Rarely. In a three year span, I've gotten only 3-4 games at a retail store. Everything else is coming from Steam nowadays. Besides, most stores don't seem to have too broad a selection.

The last PC game I bought at a store was Bad Company 2. Of course, my computer is ass, so Bad Company 2 is now wasting away in it's case in my room somewhere.

 

[darkbshadow]

Wait you can still buy PC games at Retail Stores? The last time i Checked at all the game stores in my area all I could buy was WoW, and a slew of other MMo's, and maybe the latest released PC game. I only started buying PC games on Digital Distribution because local game stores just stopped carrying PC games. I remember the days when the PC game selection at a Game Retailer was the biggest section in the place and you had the smaller console sections. Now your lucky to even find one Shelf of PC games

 

[BRex21]

unless there is a substantial price difference i usually buy a tangible copy, it just feels better, i dont know why. I like the smell, i like the feel and i like the way i can install it in just a few minutes as opposed to waiting for it to download for hours on end.
I purchased L4D2 over steam to get that stupid bat (i dont know why this works but it does) and was playing it at about 3 AM that same day, with 2 friends, it was a launch party and that would simply not have been possible with a tangible copy. If only it didnt take hours to unlock.

 

[Suicideking]

If I am going to buy a game brand new, day or week it comes out, I will buy the physical, boxed, copy from Amazon. Otherwise, I get my games from anywhere that has a good deal on them.

Amazon, Steam, Wal-mart (w00t employee discount), GOG... where ever.

 

[ultimateownage]

I use wherever is cheapest or offers the best deal, and why would you do anything else? They all attach to Steam when you use them anyway.

 

[Frostbite3789]

soemtimes. i afraid to say i frequent the walmart electronics section when i go grocery shopping. It's usually to look through the $5 DVD bargain bin, shoveling through the mountians of crap and B horror to find that glittering diamond thats worth a damn. seriously every time i go there there the same twenty or so crappy movies and like three DVDs of some good movie they threw in there to spice things up. but i digress.

occasionally i browse the game setion and the PC titles are slim pickings and a casual bonanza but if i know for certain steam doesn't have it on sale at the moment (not often) i will buy a solid copy. What really chaps mybutt though is the box usually comes with an install disc for steam and a code for the game. i resisted steam for a long time, but recently it's kinda become unavoiable. EXCEPT FOR EA TITLES, OH GOODY. yeah EA doesn't get my business anymore if they continue to insist on Origin. god the publishers are trying hard to kill PC gaming.

tl;dr: so yeah i do occaisionally but not often because when is there a not sale on steam?

You succumbed to Steam, but refuse to do so for Origin?

I love double-standards. They're so fun.

 

[Rawne1980]

Sometimes yeah.

Other times it's Amazon.

I never buy from Steam I like to have a physical copy. If physical copies stop being produced and it's just digital downloads, well thats the day I give up buying games.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I try to buy physical copies from Game but if it's something I really want on the day I'll get it on Steam because of their pre load thingy. They also do like 5 quid off on pre orders.

I did this for Skyrim for example.

Something I'm not too fussed about like Sims 3 pets I just buy from the store.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Yes but this is entirely due to the fact I have no method of purchasing goods online at present.

 

[Wolfinton]

I do for specific things. There are certain games I want to show of my shelf and therefore want a physical copy of. Everything else goes from Steam.

It is a big plus if I can get the phyiscal copy and still use it on Steam - Skyrim.

 

[cainx10a]

Steam only. Retail is dead for me.

 

[Twad]

Why buy retail when i got steam/impulse/whatever else? That, or i order older stuff from amazon.

 

[somonels]

Most "AAA" games are easily ?10 cheaper as a physical disk, making it about as much as it would cost buying with USDs, and I can always get the game from a torrent if I don't want to scratch the disk.