Where to buy original PC Games in Leb?

ali_m3

titles like Dirt2, Operation Flashpoint 2, MW2?
Virgin seems to be concentrating on PS3 & Xbox, didnt find any games there except for few outdated titles

rolf

There are some at Le Geant - TSC (previously Monoprix)

GN90

if you find new original PC games at lebanon tell me, iv'been everywhere. just couldn't find

ali_m3

i was going thru some posts and some1 was mentioning a place in mar elias, not so sure thu

buyin these things from amazon is not possible now unless u ship with ucs which would cost a fortune

Flakk

You wond find any places with original pc games in leb unfortunatly. I have done alot of searching and no luck.
Your best option is to buy games from Steam. Its really easy, download the service and install it, browse their games catalogue and buy them via creditcard or paypal(which is not supported here) and then download them. http://store.steampowered.com/

also Steam are having their Holiday sale now, all the way up to 90% in discounts (i got stalker and Rome total war for 2$ each! )

Theres also another service called Impulse store, very similar to steam. http://www.impulsedriven.com

And if youre looking to buy some rly old games checkout : http://www.gog.com
A huge catalogue of old games and they all work on new OS's like vista and Windows 7.
(plus theyre having 40% discounts for the holidays)

Or you can just contact a relative living somewhere in Dubai or the USA or anywhere and he might get the stuff you want.

GN90

when you buy games from steam do you download them or they'll be send them over ?

ali_m3

Well yes i know about steam, but steam offers only digital downloads....so i wonder how much it would take t download a 10GB game!???!.....dont think its feasible

gamestop.com offers digital download too

Flakk

To GN90: You download them

to ali_m3: actually theres a really good compression system on most of the games you download.. for example when i bought Day of defeat source steam told me it needs about 2.5gigs of space.. but it actually only downloaded about 1gb of compressed files, when the download is done decompression is made and takes some minutes to do.
Also if you have a Source engine based game and you download another the download size of the other game will be really low cause you already have the required source files, so steam does not download the files all over again...

GN90

um one other question. does they support download managers and can we pause and resume the download ? cause I really need some games to buy and play online and i can't download expect at night

Flakk

Um yes you can pause or stop downloads with steam and continue them anytime you want. (you download the games within the steam program, this also means if you want to play the game you bought you have to be logged in to steam)

ali_m3

@ FLAK
You are right, but still you will need to wait hours to download full games. Needless to say, games these days are very huge.

@GN90
Yes steam can pause and resume. Gamestop.com downloads a small application to your desktop in order to pause and resume downloads.

Yet guys i dont think downloading is the right solution in Leb. Still wondering thu if any hard copies are available here in Beirut.

ali_m3

Guys i found a good website play-asia.com that ship to lebanon at affordable prices.
i dont know if any1 can help but i found there 2 version of COD MW2 (asian version and US version). I contacted customer support and they said i should buy the asian version. Not so sure but i think i should buy the US, any ideas?

euryale

I found original PS3 XBOX and PSP games in the virgin mega store in Le Geant, not sure if they have PC games thou, check it out

Flakk

yeah i heard about play-asia but what are the shipping costs ?
you should get the US version i think.

ali_m3

$4 regular shipping..very affordable