Gaming On The Go

[thinkingork]

I have been traveling extensively for the past few months and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. I find maintaining my gaming habit progressively more difficult as time goes on. When I was younger and more rash, I brought my desktop with me when I traveled and had access to proper internet. However, these leisures are no longer available due to more frequent and further distanced trips.

So far, I have been using substitutions such as spending unspeakable amount of time on my iPhone and joining various local card/boardgame groups. But one can only go so far with substitutions, with the prior simply lacking the kicks that I am used to on traditional platforms (say, Angry Bird vs Skyrim) and the latter coming with its own set of restrictions.

I wonder, people who are in similar circumstances, how do you deal with it?

Resources I have,

- an iPhone
- a MacBook Air 13" (2011)
- 360 Controller (no mouse, lol)
- a NDSL
- Unreliable hotel wifi (Great Firewall of China, AOL 56k, etc)

TL;DR; Where can I buy non-counterfeit Skyrim for PC in Beijing?

[KaoFloppy]

Just thinking out loud...
1. Go to the tourist trap areas with the big designer western shops, and find the electronic shop/department. I'm sure they have a real Skyrim package for sale (at USD100+, but hey, it's real).
2. Ask someone back home to buy it for you, and buy & play the counterfeit version in Beijing until you go home.

[Farnsworth]

Or a VPN & Steam ?

..or Steam and a Chinese Credit Card?

[Otagan]

TL;DR; Where can I buy non-counterfeit Skyrim for PC in Beijing?
You're on your own for that one. The fact you're asking that question in that way means you know just how rampant counterfeiting is over there. Not once in my 3+ months over there did I find a legitimate copy of any recent PC release, but I admittedly did not spend most of that time in Beijing and I never once set foot in Shanghai, which I think would be the easiest place to find a copy (travel hassle aside).

Other than that, you should be able to get a copy if someone could gift it to you over Steam. That way you avoid region locks and can freely access the game at will. Bandwidth to download the game would be the only limitation there, so if that's not feasible then you're not being left with many other options than grabbing a copy from a street vendor.

[Quaro]

Use Steam. Use a proxy if you need to, the copy is still legit.

[KaoFloppy]

is NDSL a broadband connection? wikipedia says it's a naked DSL.

[KaoFloppy]

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