Tell Us Where You’ll Be Buying GTA IV
Ah, Grand Theft Auto IV. We love you, we do. We’re just not so taken by your undesirable modifications or hefty price tag. Once just the problem of Australian gamers, New Zealand has been caught in the storm as well.
So readers, where will you be buying your copy of GTA IV? Give your top recommendations here, and we’ll get the word out.
I feel kind of dirty, encouraging people not to support the local economy, but really, it’s hard to be positive when the unmodified game is selling for half the price elsewhere.
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I’m buying local, I want the online
videogamesplus.ca they are brilliant. and sometimes cheaper than playasia.
I’ll definitely be importing, I just had a successful importing experience with Super Smash Brawl so i’ll be jumping on ebay first chance I get.
$75 incl. postage with full content beats a watered down $120 by anyone’s math!
I’ll be buying my copy from EB Games (Australia). I usually don’t buy my games from EB Games due to their dodgy business practices but they one of the only few places that will be having the Limited Edition version of the game and might be the only one that might have a midnight launch.
http://www.game.co.uk
XBox 350 version was 45 pound including shipping, making it a full $20 under the gimped version here.
Still picking up the Collector’s sEdition stuff here though, I’ll just trade in the M15 version when the UK one arrives (4-6 business days).
Currently DVDCrave Limited Edition Thing, however i was going to buy copies of ebay (region free version), however since theres not limited editions available from overseas, im currently waiting to find out whats been cut, then buy or not buy.
but ill probably buy for $60-70
Play-Asia, definitely. Already ordered the US version from there – with the aid of a $10 voucher, total cost will be about AUS$64 landed.
At least the US version is guaranteed to be the original, unmodified game.
I’ll buy the modified copy from JB Hifi
I don’t really care that it’s modified, or that it costs more, or that it’ll probably come out months later
I’ve given up and learned to live with the crap games publishers throw at us down here in Aus, and take that fact that I’ll probably move stateside in the next 3 or 4 years to be a good thing
Will look to the US if it works, if not europe. This sucks for me because I would have bought locally without modifications, just so I could play it asap.
I think telling people not to support the local economy in this case is fantastic. It provides another reason for the government to provide an R18+ rating to the OFLC. Money is the one language everyone understands, but when big business (lets be honest no one buys games from ma and pa stores) misses out on a chunck of the cash cow that is GTA, that will be vocal.
i work at a video rental store and one of the perks is ordering games in to buy at cost price + 10% so i’ll buy getting it from them and saving $20 in the process $$
Well, I’m getting my copy from http://www.ezygames.com.au – Special Edition, Xbox 360 for the ‘bargain’ price of..umm…$134.99. I want it on release day. I have annual leave and [i]need[/i} it for then…the UK ’special edition’ fails me in terms of achieving that goal.
I’m hoping the only scene being cut is one involving a 9mm and a naked middle aged male bank teller.
I ordered a UK PAL copy from Hong Kong via eBay earlier today…
Well I’m going for the trade in3 get it free deal@ JBHIFI. The way I see it, I’m getting a good price ($40) for those games. Unfortunately the games I really want to get rid of, shadowrun and Table Tennis, I can’t trade.
@Big Nick: I was looking at GAME earlier about that, they’re charging UK RRP for Rock Band and everything but apparently shipping is just under 10 GBP extra to Australia so that might be the answer. Assuming it wasn’t their system giving a false quote. Though I suspect they’d be bound by that price regardless.
play-asia.com
Definitely Play-Asia. I don’t understand why anyone would go out and buy it at home. Plus I don’t have enough PS3 games yet (or at least enough to part with) to get a trade-in at JB or some such.
Gametraders in Perth for three reasons:
1. Local retailers, esp specialist retailers should be supported otherwise Australia is going to shrink from a ’small market share’ to a ‘desolate wasteland market share’.
2. They had the special edition for the 360.
3. They’re having a launch party at a cinema giving people the opportunity to play the game on the big screen which is beyond cool.
I’m getting mine from Ebay. Seller called videogame1234, I have bought from them many times and with express + game for $75 I’m quite happy. He says it will be a UK version. If the rumor is true that the only thing left out is a cut scene. I would have probably bought it here and got the game a week early. As it stands I still get it a lot cheaper though. I think it would have been smart for Rockstar to say what was left out if they wanted people not to import. If the buyer can make their own decision then they will feel so much better about it. Being left in the dark has many many people speculate and fear that the missing content could be an entire mini game etc.
Smatt
I was going to be importing from play-asia. But after hearing customs can confiscate it for being contraband, I will just download it.
getting mine from play-asia…. along with a lovely new dual shock 3 :)
I’ve got a strong suspision there’s more then just a cut scene that’s been removed.. The OFLC talk about picking up prostitutes and the camera focusing on the number plate. Their UK counterpart describe “simulated sex” when you pickup a pro. A numberplate doesn’t sound like simulated sex to me.
The gun in the a-hole thing was denied by rockstar too if i remember correctly.
I’ll most likely buy from playasia depending on the outcome of the multiplayer region locking.
does the US version work on Australian PS3’s?
My UK copy of the Special Edition arrived today, finally the torture is over! Can’t wait to get home from work!
Does the xbox 360 Uk Pal version of GTA IV work on Ausralian systems??