few days back i talk to one of the forumer here, he playing pirated GTA 4 with 4850 + C2D, given the excuse that he got no money. but he promise me that he will try to support original and need to save money for a month in order to buy a original game.

then, suddenly his router modem spoil, without the 2nd thought, he go to lowyat and replace a new one.
somehow a wireless router modem which cost about rm 200 is affordable immediately.


another friend of mine always try to support original, somehow he buying / downloading pirated is just to test it out, he said if he like the game he will buy original.

i ask him how many pirated he play this year, he answered me more than 20.
then how many original game that he bought? he remains silent.

nows a day the only attraction for people buying original is multiplayer gameplay.

lots of single player game oledi shift to console or stop developing.
like commandos, splinter cell, starwars jedi knight, x wing, all gone.

thanks for those pirated supporter.

as i say, now original dvd also drop below rm 50 +-, but i bet you still prefer downloading instead of support original.

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Added on December 26, 2008, 5:44 pmhou jai, as i know, i are going to buy 9800GTX and C2D 8400,

why dun you screw nvidia and intel unless the price drop below RM 100?

RM 1500+ for hardware is ok, but RM 130 for game is expensive?



This post has been edited by chulk: Dec 26 2008, 05:44 PM

one time process????

where is those 7900 2900 graphic card? pentium D? X2?
how long they last? about 1 or 2 years?

well, we dont,
but in order to catch up with the latest game, let say

2006 you buy a pentium D with 7600 for gaming
2007 you got to change to C2D and 8800 for crysis
2008 C2Q and 9800 is a must in order to run GTA 4 in medium setting

each year you got to spend at least a thousand plus minimum.

unless you dont mind to run crysis gta at 800x600 with 15 fps.

believe it or not, this so called disgusting junk is game of the year.
even if you dont play, you need to upgrade in order to run fallout 2, devil may cry 4, dead space smoothly.

go to ask our forumer, how much they spend on hardware every year, and how much they spend on original game?

dont tell me poor if you still own a decent ring, the only poor thing is your mindset.

not really dude, i know what you mean, just that we discuss a topic from different angle.but i do respect and agree with your point.

you mention about the living standard, here is my opinion. people spend their money for entertainiment gaming is base on budget.

US citizen income is 4 times more than us, so let say they bought 10 original game a year generally (assuming), cost them about 500 USD, fair enough. they have higher income then come with higher budget.
Singaporean income is 2 times compare with malaysian, lots of them buying original game (we can see it from online game server), i dint count but let assume 5 game a year, 250 dollar.
so back to malaysia, our income is low compare to those advance country, but is not really that bad, our people seems dont have problem with buying hardware or modify car. so base on the comparison above, our budget is half of Singaporean and 1/4 of US-ian, we should able to buy about 2-3 game a year. this is reasonable, RM 300-RM 400 is affordable for most of us, i judging this by seeing how we spend the money on hardware.

but generally how many game we bought? i can say for majority gamer, near to 0.
only minority gamer support original, the rest dun give a damn. they rather spend their money on CPU and GPU or buying other gadget, mobile phone.

our mindset is the problem bro, pirated is everywhere, we dont seems guilty for using pirated, and some even proud of it.
of cause low income is a of the main factor no doubt, i have no doubt about this.

This post has been edited by chulk: Dec 27 2008, 12:16 PM

who need to pay when you can steal.

yes, india selling at 499 INR, about RM 36 +.
is very cheap, usually new game selling at india is 999 INR.

of coz, is indian version.

back the a question that i ask before, if all game selling at malaysia about RM 80+-, but in bahasa malaysia, will you buy it?

bros，

the game maker purposely make the local version in none english, so that those local version cant sell in other country.

otherwise, i will buy GTA 4 from india online since only selling at RM36. it even cheaper than pirated...

thats the logic, anyone here bought GTA 4 from india ? no right? unless you cant read their language.

autocad is not consumer software, it might cost a proton sage price, but in the return, you can use it to earn a BMW in a long run.

you can always sell it off if your biz fail, application software like photoshop, window office have pretty high resale value, at least much higher that your hardware.