Where to buy PC Games

I'm curious to find out where people are buying their games outside of digital download options such as Steam, ect. I'm on dialup, except when I use my phone as a wifi point, which limits the option as far as steam goes.
Walmart's PC game selection seems to vary by day and by luck as to what they have. The closest EB games did not even sell PC games. Which leaves the small options at BB/Futureshop. Any other decent options that I haven't noticed to date?

 

walmart and steam for me

 

Bought my last few games from Amazon.

 

Steam is my primary source but for you? Walmart, Target, Amazon, Best Buy, and NewEgg are probably the best options.

Dial up? Nothing you can do to get a better internet connection? That's just...painful...to hear someone on here has dial up.

 

I get my games from the Amazon marketplace.

 

I get them from Amazon but if a game uses Steam, even if you buy the physical DVD I notice that sometimes it still wants to downloadhuge updates or the entire game anyway.

 

I get mine from Best Buy, Wal-mart, Future Shop, Gamestop/EB Games and Amazon.com, but only for a collector's edition, everything else is with the digital download sites.

 

I have satellite. My only 2 options (for now) are dial-up and satellite. Gotta love 762ms latency and 1Mbit max download speeds.

 

Ah, gotta love the good old country. In the US that means dial-up, satellite, or Comcast.

 

Good Old Games (gog.com) and Amazon for me. If you like the older classics then the smaller d/l size of some of the games on gog won't hurt you much on dial-up.

 

Most stores have crappy selections. My local Gamestops have like, one floor rack of PC games and half the boxes look like they've been run over by a truck

 

thats why i go to Best Buy, my local one is fantastic, but now i order from amazon usually.

 

The option is dialup, satellite, or 3g.
The satellite company out here had a website dedicated, with, if I remember correctly, something like 7,000 members warning people to stay away from the company essentially.
I have 3g on my phone, 6 gigs for the month, but I'd burn through that awful quck downloading games. Even just an evening on my computer can burn quite a bit of that quota.
That leaves me with dialup and a dream of fiber optic one day.

Thanks for the ideas. I'll check out a couple of the stores. I've been eying up some of Amazon.ca's games, Metro 2033 for 12 bucks, but some of the sellers on there worry me with that aforementioned price.

 

UK user here, usually check amazon, play.com, steam and then buy whichever is cheapest at the time (amazon have the best customer service though)

 

For me it depends, if Im looking for a brand new game that has come out usually best buy, if its a little older then walmart. Usually get a better deal for the older ones at walmart.

 

primary--steam


secondary--ebay

its been a while since i bought a game on gamestop, we are talking about 3 years.

 

if u wanna buy it in-store i would recommend u to buy it at gamestop

 

this topic reminds me i'm getting 100Mb fiber optic connection next month. I will finally be able to download over 10MB/s!

I hate my current 6Mb connection. It's so unreliable, and half the time it doesn't even work at 3Mb.

 

Last 6 games I bought were from Ebay. Got SC2 for 36 bucks a week after launch . Still rocking!

If you got dial up at home, you could plug your laptop(I assume you have a laptop since this is NBR lol) at a friend's place or at a university's wifi to download the games(ex: steam).

 

You can try Target or Fry's Electronics (if it is there). Other options are Amazon (physical copy) or ebay (if buying used be careful with new games and one-time activation codes).

 

steam sales

 

New Releases: Amazon, you can't beat their digital download price
Older games: Steam

I'm still on the fence with Origin, they have like 0 sales

 

Apart from Steam I've bought 2 games from Best Buy

 

Origins has sales right now on Crysis 2(23.99),Dragon Age 2(22.41) Darkspore(23.99), Sims 3: Barnacle Bay(15.01), and Bulletstorm(15.99)