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  • #16
    Local small retailers.
    (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
    (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
    (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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    • #17
      Online or at bargain bins, since there are very few 'new' games that interest me these days...
      DULCE BELLUM INEXPERTIS

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      • #18
        Future Shop or good ole Toys'R'Us.If those 2 don't have it, no one does.Both are within 15 minutes walking distance
        The only thing that matters to me in a MP game is getting a good ally.Nothing else is as important.......Xin Yu

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Harry Seldon
          Best Buy or Gamespot, whichever is cheaper.
          \

          Yup, but I also have CompUSA and Circuit City in the vacinity to shop at too.

          Whoever gets it first and cheapest gets my dollar.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Solver
            eDonkey



            Thief.
            The thing is, more than half the games I bought are either duds or ones I don't like, but I can't return them. Most game reviews are useless also. For example, I bought Starfleet Command because the reviews were so glowing, but in fact the game sucks as far as I am concerned.

            Before you ask, demo games don't show you the full picture most of the time.

            So what options have I got left to protect myself?
            (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
            (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
            (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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            • #21
              I used to go to best buy for everything. Although some games like Civ3 came out at the store in the mall 1 day before best buy, so sometimes I would go there. Although maybe if I had 1 extra day I would have realized not to by civ3 ptw

              But even Best Buy's inventory has decreased.

              I go to Fry's for pretty much all my games now. They have a huge selection of games and software at equal or lesser prices than best buy and EB.

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              • #22
                I go to EB most of the time. I like being able to return a game for a full refund within 10 days.
                If I'm posting here then Counterglow must be down.

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                • #23
                  Verkkokauppa.com and Bulldog NetStore.
                  "Kids, don't listen to uncle Solver unless you want your parents to spank you." - Solver

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                  • #24
                    I used to use GAME all the time because of the 10 day no-questions refund. Unfortunately the local store disappeared so I tend to use strategic plus software on the net for any game I know I will want. I still make forays to GAME/EB for anything I buy speculatively.
                    To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
                    H.Poincaré

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                    • #25
                      I tend to take the average of user game reviews- some people will love it no matter what, some will hate it, and then there are the coherent people
                      ----
                      "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education" -Mark Twain

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                      • #26
                        Best Buy or CompUSA.

                        Occasionally I'll be in Wal-Mart, and stop by their electronics department and find something worth buying at a decent price.

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                        • #27
                          Poly gives very good overall reviews. Alas, Poly didn't play Starfleet Command
                          (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
                          (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
                          (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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                          • #29
                            Taxfree shops isn't what they were... Now they are around as expensive as regular shops...
                            Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.-Isaiah 41:10
                            I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made - Psalms 139.14a
                            Also active on WePlayCiv.

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                            • #30
                              Originally posted by DrSpike
                              If you are going to use 'unorthodox' methods you may as well get the game for free.
                              I do have the means to do it, but I'm not that patient...
                              I watched you fall. I think I pushed.

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