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TalonMan said:

**Note: This question is mostly aimed at North America users.

I'm not really big into e-shop type games (well, obviously for the smaller indie games, that's the only option available for buying those games), and so long as there is a physical version of a game available I will always choose that over a digital download. There are many reason for this (some personal, some more obvious), but my question is - where do most of you make your purchases?

I've been an Amazon Prime member for a long time (since they first introduced it), and have purchased most of my library over the years via Amazon - a few months ago, I discovered the Gamers Club Unlocked option at Best Buy and have been steadily moving my purchase options over to them instead. Has anybody found a better (read: cheaper) option for purchasing retail??

The ones I know of (and have been using so far) are:

 - Amazon Prime - 20% discount on most new games (Prime is $99 for the year but includes a TON of things, other than just videogame discounts)
 - Best Buy GCU - 20% discount on all new games (GCU is $30 for two years - I saved that much just pre-ordering CoD: Valor Edition)

What do you all use?

 

GCU also gets you double points when you use your Best Buy credit card. So everytime you buy a $60 game at your $48 discounted price you get 165 points. For every 240 points you get a $5 gift certificate. So it's basically another $3.43 off your games. 

And then if you take advantage of pre-order bonuses like the $10 gift certificate that comes with Super Mario Odyssey, then that's even more money saved. I bet you did the same thing with CoD right?