Poll: where do you buy your games?
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New releases: Gamestop
Everything else: Whoever has it, which is never Gamestop, since all they ever have new is new releases. Best Buy, Wal-Mart, and K-Mart are the best bets. Amazon if it's something stores just don't seem to carry anymore.
Everything else: Whoever has it, which is never Gamestop, since all they ever have new is new releases. Best Buy, Wal-Mart, and K-Mart are the best bets. Amazon if it's something stores just don't seem to carry anymore.
I buy mine from Amazon. They generally have the best prices. Though I like to go around stores and find good deals on games.
For example, I really hate buying gamres over £20 (uh, $30?)
For example, I really hate buying gamres over £20 (uh, $30?)
Wal-Mart mostly but if it is a major game like say Gears of War 3, I'll pre-order it through either Gamestop or the Game X-Change downtown.
New games I buy from GAME, 'cos of my reward card.
Anything else, I'll buy from other users on Amazon or Play.
Anything else, I'll buy from other users on Amazon or Play.
Mostly Walmart cause I like paying the minimal amount for a new game. Sometimes Best Buy if they have a good sale going on. And Gamestop about once every five years with trade-ins. I do shop pretty much everywhere though and buy a good amount of stuff, especially gifts for other people, on clearance. Every once in awhile I will find a really good game on Target's clearance rack for under $5. Bought EndWar Collectors Edition for under $7 there, not cause I gave a rat's ass about the game, but because it came with the $50 Sony bluetooth headset. Ended up selling the game for $10, keeping the headset.
GameStop, BestBuy and Wal-Mart for the current gen games.
If i'm going for games from the NES, SNES and Genesis era i go to BuyBacks, Allied Record Exchange,
Video Game Underground and Replay.
If i'm going for games from the NES, SNES and Genesis era i go to BuyBacks, Allied Record Exchange,
Video Game Underground and Replay.
New games, either CEX, when they stock a new game anyway, or GAME mainly for the Reward Points which gives you money off when you get enough points.
Second hand/cheap games, always CEX. Always.
Second hand/cheap games, always CEX. Always.
I buy mine from the place I can get them cheapest. If its a tie between all retailers, GAME because of their reward card system.
Any Gamestop, really. And I typically ignore their "new" rack anyway, because like 85% of those games will only have gutted display copies, which aren't "new" and which I refuse to buy.believer258 said:
Which sucks, because there's usually a couple older gems there. Problem is you know they're only still in stock because the copy they have is wrecked.
I buy new releases there because of locational convenience: it's walking distance from where I work, so I go during my lunch break. Also, pre-ordering guarantees they're not going to try to hand me a gutted copy.
Once a game's been out for a little while, I just don't bother checking Gamestop.
Steam almost exclusively. There are a few like Dawn of War II that I like to have physical copies of that I buy on whatever site has it for the cheapest. Often sites that most have never heard of before.