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kianweic
post Mar 3 2008, 05:43 PM

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America was found on piracy and now they are the one running around curbing piracy what irony.

Frankly I think piracy is bad for business but with the weak RM and lousy GDP our country has been getting for the past 20-30 years. No wonder, people resort to software piracy.

Generally, I doubt people won't buy PC games if they were price exactly according to purchasing power (ie. like food). RM50 per original game? Totally worth the money spend.

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post Mar 3 2008, 09:13 PM

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Cinema movies are the worst.

I always go to Cinema at least once to twice a month for different movies. The view are great, sound systems top notch, seat are comfortable but when comes to movie, these are my qualms?

Swears are cut right out from the movie.

Sex scenes are not there? 300, I am looking at you.

I am so sick of violent is ok yet sex is a huge crime. Wake up, sex is a big part of life probably a bigger part than violence. We DON'T live in the medieval ages or the dark ages.

Why the heck have we to resort to pirates to watch a whole movie without cuts? You gotta be kidding me and some movies are banned outright? Why? Must be facism at stake.

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post Mar 3 2008, 10:15 PM

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[quote=Kusa,Mar 3 2008, 09:45 PM]
you don't need to see sex to know that the sex is there. kisskissrubrub /cut then the couple baring cuddling edi. yup there was sex. unless it's a hardcore movie about sex then i don't think a cut in sex scene will detract from the main storyline. but wanting a new government so you can see wild sex in cinemas? even with a complete change of government, don't think things will change towards liberalism anytime soon, because our country will still carry the 'good values' and lean on it for a while.

You gotta be kidding me with this line.

Facism breeds in Malaysia because people can don't learn how to respect others especially when it comes to ideas.

I am complaining because I paid for the movie and I don't want some half ass show without the swears and without the sex or nakedness.

Shooting every idea down just to protect your so called good values, truly holier than thou attitude have to go if this country is to move forward.

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post Mar 4 2008, 08:23 AM

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I remember back in Melbourne, Ebgames takes in old games and give u a decent discount on new games usually more than 25%.

Hopefully company like Ebgames can open a branch in Malaysia, I like their return within 7 days no question ask policy plus their discount on old games up to 50% (especially when it comes to hardware) I bought my gamepad for like Au$20 bucks each.
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post Mar 4 2008, 09:04 AM

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QUOTE(Cheesenium @ Mar 4 2008, 08:35 AM)
Their policy has changed.They only take in old console games,not PC games anymore because there have been a lot of people just take the game home to copy the disc into their computer and return to them.I was thinking of exchanging my NFSC and UT3 for a copy of OF or something.

How sad.
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Yes definitely.

In fact, prior to that some other game shop was renting games out. Au$3-5 bucks a day. I used to rent single player games and finish within the time frame, still studying so can play through the whole night. Totally worth it. Too bad they couldn't implement they you must uninstall the game after the time frame procedure, that could have been quite profitable.

I think there's a small shop over in Melbourne selling games less than 10% or 15% of the normal Eb Games price. Even their shopping complex stocks games as well, also get good discounts. I bought my Call of Duty 1 from target with 25% discount. Good times.
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post Mar 5 2008, 06:57 PM

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PC games piracy is bad....mmmmkay....

Would be nice to see our currency appreciates further against the USD.

USD is pretty weak now with all the economic problems going on over there.

With so much of natural resources in Malaysia, it still boggles the mind why Malaysia is so behind Singapore in terms of both economic and education.
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post Mar 6 2008, 04:39 PM

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Students can always buy those old 1-2 years old original games (Not too sure they sell it here as those value packages), they sure do in Australia.

Not only you get to save money from buying new and pricey games, you also get to save money from withholding your upgrade till you get enough funds via working.

However, most of the time when you do start working, you probably have very little time to play which is alright just buy one game that can last you for several months.

Financial planning, Malaysians definitely need it with very overpriced cars, impending increase of petrol price and inflationary pressure basically higher cost of living across the board. (Furthermore, salary that are not adjusted according to inflation)
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post Jan 2 2009, 06:06 PM

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An interesting article about computer hardware failure by Benchmark Review:

2008 The Computer Hardware Industry Failure

Interestingly, I would have thought they would mentioned piracy in that article but seems odd they didn't.

Have a read, it's quite interesting.
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post Jan 14 2010, 10:07 PM

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QUOTE(salimbest83 @ Jan 14 2010, 09:29 PM)
emm..
stil play games from x sources..
thinking to buy certain games ori.. like MW2... but then its price just too much for me..
about 1/5 of what i earn.
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Wait for Steam sales and buy games from there.

In a lot of instances, it's actually cheaper than pirated games (during the sales that is).
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post Jan 15 2010, 09:25 AM

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These days I find it better not to have physical media.

Best if I could easily backup all my original games and play it on different PC without worrying to revoke licenses or etc.

Since most game companies don't really put much effort on manuals and other extras that come with physical media.
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post Jan 15 2010, 11:48 AM

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QUOTE(temptation1314 @ Jan 15 2010, 11:45 AM)
Shift? as in Time Shift?
Plants and Zombies you better wait for sales, or if u really got extra$$, then you can get it. I remember it's $9.99 right?
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I think he meant Need for Speed Shift.

Plants and Zombies was going for USD4.99 sometime back during the sales.

Also, I should be given an award for having so many original games.
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post Jan 15 2010, 02:09 PM

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QUOTE(Cheesenium @ Jan 15 2010, 12:56 PM)
It's NFS Shift.

Just waiting for it to be cheap,then,i'll buy an ori copy.

I want my Toyota Supra.  drool.gif Only ori got that car. sad.gif
Yeah,you should get an award for owning so many Steam games. laugh.gif
Im still doing that to be honest.Save till i can afford one.

Those pirated games i got are actually copy and paste from someone who have torrent it. Just give it a try when i have a chance to get my hands on.Other than that,i wont torrent it myself due to limited bandwidth or even buy a pirated copy as they are quite a headache to play.

Yea,one can try the "WOI LOWER PRICE LA!!!" on your favourite restaurant,shop or gym when the price increase.They will still pay but for a 15USD game,they cant be bothered.
Steam has already trying very hard to increase the level of original gaming and most Steam sales are available in Malaysia.

Only retail is having a bit of problem,but they did come out with those RM39.90 budget copies.

Things are improving slowly,but the main thing is still education among the gamers.
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I have seen some very good bundle retail games in Melbourne on November.

Some of the prices were very reasonable for slightly older games.

Too bad during that time Steam was having it's holiday sale.
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post Jan 16 2010, 09:12 AM

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QUOTE(Cheesenium @ Jan 15 2010, 11:52 PM)
Thats what i used to do too.

At the end of the year,i manage to bought WA which was my first ori.

Thanks.
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What is WA?
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post Jan 20 2010, 09:19 AM

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Buyers of original games should be rewarded more NOT further punished with double DRMs.

DLCs should not include DRMs since it's tied to the original game anyways and most of the time your online account.

These days I can't be bother to pirate anymore because it's just too much hassle. Buy game go back install, don't work (ranging from crappy disc, was not cracked properly) or download game, don't work go find patch, download patch search crack, get stuck. Too much work, besides buying from Steam sales are almost as cheap as their pirated counterparts.
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post Jan 20 2010, 04:13 PM

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Lot of us formerly pirates.

Anyway, even flag of Malaysia plagiaries the flag of United States.

Currently, our slogan is also moving towards Obama's "Yes, we can!"

Malaysia, land of piracy.
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post Jan 20 2010, 06:17 PM

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Plagiarizing song is also an offense.

It's just that no one bother to enforce it against Malaysia.

Just imagine if we plagiarize a living artist's song as our national anthem. Probably get lots of repercussions from the artists.

And for the flag part, I am pretty sure that if US instruct us to change it to something else, we'll probably change it immediately without complaints since 80% our export goes to the US.

This post has been edited by kianweic: Jan 20 2010, 06:19 PM
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post Jan 22 2010, 08:01 AM

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QUOTE(spacelion @ Jan 22 2010, 01:06 AM)
buy computer can claim tax and expenses

buy games cannot
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If you buy games for Steam, you don't pay tax anyways.

Perhaps with the new GST in 2012, we might need to start paying +4% on Steam for every game.

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post Jan 22 2010, 09:12 AM

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QUOTE(noobfc @ Jan 22 2010, 09:05 AM)
PC games no tax

Console games got tax
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Off topic again:

GST is a broad-based tax.

Everything will get taxed unless it is in the list of exemption which I doubt PC games will be in.
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post Jan 22 2010, 12:09 PM

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Perhaps pirated copies maybe affected by GST as well.

Now they gotta pay extra 4% on their disc they buy to burn.

And they can't claim it, therefore the cost is definitely going to the ultimate customers big time.
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QUOTE(Deimos Tel`Arin @ Jan 22 2010, 12:11 PM)
wtf? we buy online.
how the hell gomen can tax us?
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Like how they do in the US (for certain States)

Make it embedded into Steam.
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