You know what? If that happens, you have the rights to sue the company for wrongful termination. They need to talk to you and have you agree to the termination. And even then they will have to pay you compensation and give you time to get a new job. Most have a post-termination period of 1-2 months, where you're expected to document what you did so far. Feeling POed? Don't document completely- spend more time on hunting for new jobs via JobsDB or Jobstreet or Monster or whatever. If they don't give you post-termination period, my advice is find a lawyer or complain to labor union. That company have violated labor laws.

As for buying pirate, put this way laa. You buy cheap and a lot. But enjoyment factor also less... Too many game, cannot concentrate on finishing one... That's my experience. Also, my experience tells me pirate games got all those intro screens. Do you want to sit through irritating music with screen full of cuss words? Do you want your children to see that?

And then for some very involving games like RPGs, cutscene movies may be removed, BGM/voiceovers may be missing, features removed and some just plain randomly crash at random points and dun let you finish the game due to cheap media and/or poor QC (or overlooked copy protection). And if the game comes with freebies like figures or accessories, expect to not have them too and buy them separately, because games that comes with accessories will often need the accessory in question anyway.

Plus, buy pirate got fear of being caught if you buying suddenly BSA serbu the shop. Also, for console to play pirate game need to mod. And if you mod, you not only lose warranty, if the manufacturer catch you (by firmware update) your console can end up potentially "self destruct" (we use the term "bricked") or blocked from online service. You're in a lose-lose situation, you don't update firmware, you cannot play newer games. You update, your firmware may brick. Yes, a lot of latest gen console games can play online against people all over the world or with friends. If you buy pirate, you effectively put your console and yourself at risk if you play online. If you can at all because they can block pirate games. Even if you find online gaming pointless, the others in your family wouldn't (particularly latest generation, who're very used to the idea of meeting friends online even if you're not. Even women of last gen are already warming up to the idea of online meetings and talking to friends over internet than over phone).

Think about that. Take it from someone who have experienced the dark side and have denounced it.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Jan 12 2010, 09:57 PM

That's the problem with a lot of people here. Conditioned to compare the price using RM to USD. Although that's only half of the story. The other half is unscrupulous dealers: harga tak turun even after game no longer popular. Those are same dealers that carry *ahem* stuff. You still expect me to buy Metal Slug Anthology for Wii at RM199 even after 4 years of launch? Sorry, I rather turn to eBay. Too bad the average Malaysian does not trust/know how to use online shopping either.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Jan 12 2010, 11:44 PM

Ketam normally won't simply tahan packages. Only exceptions they tahan is either game declared to cost more than RM500 (tahan for import duty only, must be extremely rare game to cost so much, or the seller screwing you by purposely declaring the game to cost a lot- did you argue with the seller?), your record become suspicious because you buy too many games too often (1 game a month usually no problem. Stack of 10 every week, however, different story) and if it comes in through express means (Usually through poslaju/parcel post less likely to kena tahan compared to through FedEX/DHL/UPS).

As for Metal Slug Anthology, idk if anyone is still asking for it except me. It's so old and people prefer the PSP version...

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Jan 13 2010, 11:32 AM

Noted. I already bought the PSP version, but the way the UMD mechanism sounded on my PSP3000, scary (can hear the mech sliding back and forth across the UMD very often, like some routine designed to screw up the mech fast). Will go see if Amazon still has the PS2 version and engage vPost once I no longer pokai.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Jan 13 2010, 11:37 AM

You sure? I have a Wii. It has fakes, but I prefer to only buy ori... It has modchips, but I choose to buy mine unmodded. Even going as far as to import it from the US to be doubly sure it's unmodded.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Jan 13 2010, 11:52 AM

Well said bro, well said

I'm same with you.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Jan 13 2010, 11:59 AM

But it's a good addiction

Mega genius: Gets tired of arguing, follows his heart and head, and stop looking at this thread.