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.

rather then spending RM70++ for a game...i prefer use that money to buy something that fill my stomach.

if price around rm30-40 ok la to buy original game sometimes...but still prefer pirate. mostly bcoz...i'm a student...where got money to spend buying a rm70++ game?

The price is letting most people down, most of you guys (students) have their rig been sponsored by their parents. Some of us here is not, and limited funds, especially who don' have MARA, PTPTN and such

I only have 1 original game, and that is because my cousin gives me. All others are pirates (around 30 games in all). Its not like I'm supporting those pirates, but its just not a necessary thing for me, and far too expensive. Toll, fuel, eat, and my PC is fully depends RM100 per week (not including semester break, where I don't given any money), and I travel about 80km per day, and that purely from college to home.

I need to keep some money for emergency too, just in case for rainy days