taking about the sim 2 , its one of the most expensive game to be played if you missed a year plus of it and buying it all in one shot , for me la . lol , exp pack costs RM 70+ , its like there is more than 5 fun exp pack there to upgrade ( total is RM 350+ without the original game ) .
btw , now there is localized version of games , it roxx ! Rm 80 . the packaging means nth . example : Stalker .
I seldom get my stuffs from BT and jacked sims dont really work well , what a shame .
its all about financial management wat , if here we dont have pirates then everyone will be saving for the ori . Nowadays pirates had been hiding since the first two dogs arrived . So ori got some space for itself .

This post has been edited by LWRNCH6550: Jun 5 2007, 09:24 PM

lol , people with a RM 1k+ GC buys pirated stuff , means he is very careful over the money in his pocket, most Malaysian mentality. (but in a wrong way)

hmm...i don't support pirates , but CC aint got what i want to play, example UT3 , Crysis , Stalker , Serious Sam 2 , COD2/4 , Flatout , TitanQuest and other good titles.
Lousy CC with a AMD64 x2 3800 , 7900gs , a good system but stores some of the pirated games above. Means Suxx , limited accessibility and less game time with bugs.
Even the most original CC doesn't have most of the titles above , the basics is what the majority plays : Dota , CS:CZ and some some MMORPG or free-to-play games. (yeah, some classy CC have a few of the titles but located far away which isnt worth for a RM10 taxi or vehicle fuel.)

IMO ,some of those CC owners (no flame , hard facts) got their license quite hard and pays alot of $ kopi to the authoro-guys* (cause by those slot-machine CC owners) in order to get the license for a real CC with computers running windows , so most of them save their money by using pirated products (who businessmen doesn't want less expense and more profit ?)

BTW , unlike the U.S or other countries , we don't have a stronger gaming community due to some bad service we have , example like the connection we are using now and not much sponsors aiding CC or having more mobile-LAN events which works like a circus.
(our local ISP gives out attractive and reasonable price comparing to other country HOWEVER , they don't have any policy saying they will give first priority support to customers when the customers are facing problem, when the instable connection is here , people might given up buying ori due to the wasted time and effort for trying to play online)

Personally , people buying the Pirated product is the result , not the cause.
Pirates are smart , they know how our people think and able to adapt this market due to the economy status we have in this country. (i can say 70% of the population in this country buys alot* of pirated stuffs)
So why can't the gov think or deliver something better instead of killing the enemy which they can't kill ?

What we need for a stronger gaming community :
#More local standalone servers for lots of games (honestly , we only have MMO servers locally , and ive never heard of any FPS or RTS servers here)
#Gov should pay more attention to gamers , not only just killing the pirates , search the problem back from the result to the cause.

anyway , its my POV , any pinpoint is accepted.

Agreed , original stuffs tend to last longer in terms of replayability(mods)/physical quality and worth the money when comparing to its less worthy selection. Temptation must be tolerated or there will not be a good thing like what you wanted.

This post has been edited by LWRNCH6550: Mar 10 2008, 04:06 PM