zexen_lowe on 17 July 2008
The problem, and the reason that a legal distribution of games will never be very succesful, besides the taxes, is the dollar conversion rate. For example, 1 dollar equals here around 3 pesos. But if a good salary in the US is around U$S 2000, here a good one isn't 6000 pesos, but 2000 pesos. Now, for non-imported products, that's not a problem, for example if a carton of milk costs in the US 1 dollar, here it costs 1 peso. But with imported products, the dollar value is converted into pesos, and also taxed. So if a game here retailed for 50 pesos, nobody would complain and a lot of people would buy originals. But they retail for 200 pesos or more, so you can't expect them to buy originals when you can get a bootleg for 10 pesos or less
