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#1  Edited By MichaelCarusi

A game is a game - you can hopefully get the same quality game you want anywhere.  So do frequent a particular  place (or website) out of convenience or loyalty?  Or maybe another reason?
 
There's a Best Buy and a GameStop pretty close to one another where I live, and I generally opt for Best Buy.  The employees there are extremely nice and Best Buy has vastly better deals on games that have been out for a while.  They're always helpful whenever I have questions so I like to give them the business.  On the off-chance that I want to buy a PC game, Best Buy's selection is far better, too.

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#2  Edited By Bones8677

Amazon.com. It's cheaper and easier.

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#3  Edited By BraveToaster

Gamefly and Amazon

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#4  Edited By mylifeforAiur

Gametraders and EB Games^^

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#5  Edited By FancySoapsMan

Amazon for PS2 games.
Gamestop for cheap DS/360/PS3 games.
Bestbuy for new releases. 

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#6  Edited By Diamond

Mostly Amazon for everything, but rarely a Gogamer, Gamestop (when they have a good deal), Newegg (sometimes has good game deals), and even more occasionally there'll be some deal like Best Buy had this week.

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#7  Edited By mrfizzy

i live in Australia so generaly its cheaper for me to import my games from either the US or Britain. If its the US i usually just use ebay, for the UK i use thehut.com. If i do get them at retail here i usually shop at JB Hifi coz there the cheapest. 

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#8  Edited By Getz

Boycott Gamestop! Buy from Amazon or independent shops if you got 'em.

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#9  Edited By ReyGitano

Amazon most of the time. Gamestop, Best Buy, and Target all get visited when there are sales. I would go to K-Mart too since for some reason they've started a hard Video Game Sales push lately, but there isn't one near my house.

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#10  Edited By smitty86
@SlashseveN303 said:

" Amazon most of the time. Gamestop, Best Buy, and Target all get visited when there are sales. I would go to K-Mart too since for some reason they've started a hard Video Game Sales push lately, but there isn't one near my house. "

This. The past two times i bought games at kmart (Dead Rising & NBA 2k11) they gave me $20 credits to a future game purchase. so i'm just linking them back to back. kmart's service suck ass but they really want the sales.
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#11  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

I get most of mine from Game/Gamestation, they rule the UK retail market. There was a fairly small shop near where I used to live that usually offered cheaper deals on some games though.

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#12  Edited By cnlmullen

Mostly on Steam. 

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#13  Edited By birchman

Webhallen.

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#14  Edited By JJOR64

GameStop.

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#15  Edited By Trilogy

Amazon.com
 
I can preorder a game the day before it comes out and have it at my house on release day for no extra shipping fee. The preorder shipping is cheaper than tax if I'm not mistaken. I'm not sure if it works like that for everyone but it works for me. 

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#17  Edited By kalmis

Mostly from Play.com, got their CC which is good for their points thingie. Sometimes from Tesco and Amazon as well. Most older console games I buy from Ebay of course.

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#18  Edited By ptys

JB Hi-Fi and CD WOW!

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#19  Edited By fisk0  Moderator

there's a GAME store right where  I live, with very nice employees who I frequently end up having conversations with -- but i rarely buy games from them because their prices are ridiculous.
I think I most often end up buying my games at the local grocery store - they have a very small shelf of DVD's, CD's and games sold for something like 2 for $10, and I've found good deals there quite often.
Otherwise I usually buy my games from a couple of GameStop and GAME stores in the central district.

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#20  Edited By matpaget

I usually buy my games from Willow Video Games or PSN
 
Ill get my PSN cards from anywhere though
EB Games, HMV, London Drugs, 7 Eleven, Best Buy

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#21  Edited By Ignor

CDON.com
I can get some older games dirt cheap.

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#22  Edited By jonnyboy

eBay.
 
Bought my first Steam games in ages, stopped buying them when the started charging in GBP, but I couldn't resist L4D 1&2 for £7.81. Probably never gonna play them though.

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#23  Edited By DrPockets000

Hastings

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#24  Edited By Skald

Future Shop.

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#25  Edited By CL60

Wal-Mart, Futureshop, and Best-Buy.

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#26  Edited By LiquidSwords

Best Buys or Mom & Pop places.

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#27  Edited By Capum15

Best Buy for my 360 and if I ever get a PS3, that too.

Steam for PC stuff now-a-days. The only thing I haven't bought for the PC via steam recently was Minecraft.

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#28  Edited By monkeyking1969

Amazon...I have not choice in my area.

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#29  Edited By huntad

Wherever the best deals are.

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#30  Edited By Little_Socrates

Gamestop, partly because I'm in the one fucking part of the country that doesn't seem to have douchebags behind the counter. All four or five Gamestops in my area have really cool employees, maybe because some of them are holdover employees from the EB Games buyout in my area. 
 
Also, they've just begun a new rewards system, and while it's not AMAZING or anything, it's pretty decent. I'll be able to get some use out of it, anyways, because I like to sell games I don't need anymore. 
 
Occasionally, I'll also pick up a game at Best Buy or Wal-Mart if it happens to be more convenient for me.

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#31  Edited By Hourai

EB Games. 

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#32  Edited By nvmfst

Amazon and Steam. I never know where the game's been when I buy it at GameStop.

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#33  Edited By CharleyTony

Brick and Mortar 
Best Buy 
 
Online  
Amazon 

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#34  Edited By BombKareshi

Steam, PlayAsia, Look & Listen, etc.

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#35  Edited By zeforgotten

Coolshop and Gamestop. 
Oh I know, I'm like making deals with the devil and stuff by going to gamestop.. Watch out.. 
oggedy boggedy boo! 

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#36  Edited By HandsomeDead

Amazon. Always seems cheaper to buy there than anywhere else.

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#37  Edited By MikkaQ

Either the blockbuster two feet from my house, or if I'm downtown, the Game Centre which is an independent game store, pretty awesome selection, amazing prices on used stuff, and they have odd rarities and bits of gaming history that's fun to check out (copies of Steel Battalion with controller, or some Neo-Geo titles, or even sealed PS and Dreamcast games)

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#38  Edited By BenX02

Amazon.com baby. 
 
They put $20 credits on a lot of new releases. Then you chain them together.

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#39  Edited By nick_verissimo

Amazon and BestBuy while I'm at school and this indie. game store when I'm at home.

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#40  Edited By wefwefasdf
@Bones8677 said:
" Amazon.com. It's cheaper and easier. "
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#41  Edited By ShockD

From the retail store :)

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#42  Edited By LiquidPrince

You know what I fucking hate? When the retailers put their logos on the box. For example the Walmart version of Enslaved had a big "Walmart Exclusive DLC" that was printed on. Why would you have it be on the box and not just be a sticker.

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#43  Edited By Tomkang

Game in England, Random person in China

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Gamehubs, Gamemania, Media Market or the local toystore in desperate times.

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From people's houses while they sleep.

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#46  Edited By RichardLOlson

A lot of the time I buy from Amazon.  But other times I buy from walmart, or best buy, or if it is a good deal (rarely it happens and I really hate them) gamestop.

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#47  Edited By metalmoog

Bestbuy or Futureshop mostly.  I know whenever I walk into either, I'm doomed into buying something.  I just cannot leave without a new sealed game in my greedy little hands. lol

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#48  Edited By iam3green

steam and gamestop mostly. sometimes i will go to best buy to get a game. next town over there are 3 gamestops, two of them are at the mall, and a best buy. one of the stores is called soft ect. i think they are connected to gamestop though. i will also sometimes go to walmart to get a game if it is late at night.

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#49  Edited By GIVEMEREPLAY

Steam. Great sales, all games in one place, no cardboard or plastic to deal with. 

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#50  Edited By Fajita_Jim

For PC I almost always get my games from Steam, unless they just don't have it. For my PSP it doesn't matter, just wherever I can find it cheaper. I haven't paid more than $20 for a PSP game, I just wait for them to become Greatest Hits because I'm not okay paying $40 for a portable game.