I bought my bf2 but i feel like the developer like EA jz wan to fish our money.
Instead of bringing finished products to consumers, they release something like beta version of the game. This is also one of the reason i don support ori.
Another example is stalker, luckily i din have original.. The game has many bugs inside that u cant believe although so much yrs of waiting.. they still release a buggy games..

Lets be realistic here. How many of us actually, honestly buy original game just for the sake of supporting developers? Next to none I'd say..

RM 100 buy 1 game or 10 games
which 1 you choise ?

as a 2nd notion, i would like to stress out that all pc games developer in US, UK and europe should set up shop here in malaysia. localise pc games. employ local talent like me and others from public or private university. and pay us good salary. like rm2000 for fresh grads. and for 1 year working experience rm2500 and above would be nice. 

i demand that the government controlled by pak lah should look into this at once and abide by my bidding. may god bless us all. last but not least, long live pirated cd, always, forever and ever...until the time where originals pc games are priced at rm20 - rm30. ok la rm40 can made do too, but i still prefer rm10. 

that's very good point. the price of ori game in malaysia is cheaper than what is selling in Australia. The price of ori game which is below RM120 is fair price for me. All my games now is Ori, but i cant afford the Ori OS and software. They cost hundreds, thousands, esspecially the Microsoft Office and Photoshop.

Why dont we support ori games to make the price drop in the future. maybe they can start do local packaging which absolutely drop the price to below 100.

hehe. depends on the individual, some people finish the game fast and complain.

to me, i like to finish the games fast because i enjoy the story.

games like NFS:Carbon is too short la but games like Prince of Persia : The Sands of Time and Warrior Within, i finished within the week. same goes to C&C Red Alert 2, Emperor, Homeworld 1 and 2.

you must understand that different people have different ways to enjoy the game. i don't rush, but i like to finish my games quickly especially when i enjoy the story (and yeah, with my gaming skills i can finish them pretty fast) and it'll also allow me to write reviews in more complete detail.

again that depends.

if the game wasn't short but the gamer finished it fast, then the fella deserves a bash on the head for complaining.

if the game was short, then i think the complaint is justified. for me, NFS:C was short. compare that to the previous NFS, it's really really really short.

In US, I heard they have shops that rent out original games.  I wonder if it'll work here.

But I think people would just buy a pirated game rather than spending almost the same amount of money to just rent the game.

They should have at least a 14-days return policy to encourage more people to buy ori.

RM10 = 1 game?
more than that.
this nfsmw pir4te dvd i own got all d series of NFS since nfs 1..
i act played, finished, n play nfs u2 over n over again just from the dvd of nfsmw
take the average pir4te dvd that have like 3 games per cd.. rm3.33 per game.. instead of rm130 per game..
plus ori games u haf to put cd everytime u wanna play..
i played football manager 2005 so much until i bought a FM2006 ori..but i didnt play it much...regret already..turn out i purchase another pirate dvd that have fm2006 as a bonus..sigh why shud i pay rm130 a game when i can pay rm10 for multiple games..
the richer ones can always buy the ori..just let it be
paying for ur food, bills, school fee or w/e crap is more important than spending rm100+ for a game

Unfortunately for me... I face a problem in this when I bought my Tiberium Wars. Got scolded by my father for "wasting hundreds of money for something I can get with only RM20".

For him I would be better off buying a book for my study and only go for pirated stuff. Had a hard time explaining to him about the multiplayer feature.
But my father also think it is better to buy pirated movies rather than watch it on cinemas... the fuel to go there plus the ticket is more expensive than pirated

Lucky me I bought it all using my own money... so my father can only '"advises" me...

How bout this..

Saving money instead of buying original but you buy pirated.

Assuming 1 Original game outside is 150RM.

if you don't buy 1 original game you save 150RM right?

assuming you don't buy 10 original games that you usually would have bought.. (CnC3, NWN2, Stalker.. and such) , that means you have 1500RM more to spend on other stuff... you could easily get a better video card, 19inch LCD, alot of other stuff. games? you can always download them somewhere or get them from friends.
1 GB DDR2 667 Ram = 185RM
1 Video card 7600GT , 128bit, 256MB DDR3 AGP8X - 544RM
1 Geforce 8800GTS 320bit 320MBDDR3 - 1477
Think of it as an investment you could have done on other stuff rather then just games.. or.. think of it that if you stick with your current video card, you can't play your original games at max resolution... 
It's all about preference i guess, personally i would prefer to make my money's worth

so... save up to 1500 so i can afford the 8800GTS so when crysis comes out i can play that with DX10?? or should i keep buying origi game and play them as i like?

Another MUST BUY ORIGINAL GAME is most definitely ALAN WAKE.

i only get free ori tat comes wif mobo and GC...   if separately i don cuz i don play o9 cuz no Internet at home...   so not worth it la... still student summo...

patches dont work for pirated version as far as i know.

but then again... we don need the ori version for tat...   look at how the sims 2 and their exp pack kena...

yeah... i know... even exp pack also need to upgrade version.... like DOW:WA... u need to upgrade to v1.4(if i not mistaken...)... still kena cracked...

although i will feel kinda proud owning a couple of ori games(even free one) but sometimes i think i don really need it cuz only need to play o9 which i can't becuz of my mum...  
summo if we spend so much on the games where to find money to build a super rig to play those games...

after buying original games.
Feel that all pirate CD suck... its was either crash or getting error.
Original games dont crash and have web to support u trought the error

But sometimes ori games also suck especially console ports. Bought the latest splinter cell. Oh boy buggy like shit even after patch. Control also not made for pc.

The first splinter cell were so good for pc

Well..If the game is OMG great i'll buy it....Cough*Company Of Heroes*Cough
And I won't buy sucky game with lame support *Cough*EA*Cough
I would buy Original game with good Multiplayer.....Single Player games....Why bother to buy original...and for MMORPG..Private server...can't affort RM120 for 2 month of WOW .

Hmm...like yeah. Of course I do. But they're local packaging or something is missing from the original game box. Dude...seriously. Tell me where can I get RM 30 - 80 range games with a wide selection of choices? Perhaps old games, yeah. But who wants to play (maybe some do) 10 year old games ?