Oh, and concerning the penetration of DD services in Eastern Europe, and other areas:
Wouldn't it be a viable way to calculate how 'big' these markets are, based on the number of dedicated servers Steam employs? After all, if Eastern Europe is a huge market, Valve would need a large number of servers to handle the massive amounts of traffic:
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/
Australia - 9 (0 Valve Deds)
Bulgaria - 2
Cambodia - 1
Canada - 2 (2 Valve Deds)
Czech Republic - 3 (2 Valve Deds)
Denmark - 2 (1 Valve Deds)
France - 2 (2 Valve Deds)
Germany - 17 (4 Valve Deds)
Greenland - 1
Hungary - 1
Indonesia - 1
Ireland - 2 (2 Valve Deds)
Italy - 4 (4 Valve Deds)
Japan - 6 (6 Valve Deds)
Malaysia - 2
Netherlands - 15 (15 Valve Deds)
New Zealand - 2
Norway - 1 (1 Valve Deds)
Poland - 2 (2 Valve Deds)
Romania - 5
Russia - 5
Singapore - 4 (4 Valve Deds)
South Africa - 1
Spain - 4 (4 Valve Deds)
Sweden - 3 (2 Valve Deds)
Switzerland - 2 (2 Valve Deds)
UK - 11 (11 Valve Deds)
US - 63 (62 Valve Deds)
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Now, I must ask you: how is it that Eastern Europe is this whole big under-reported market, yet Valve, the biggest online gaming destination, has on a few servers in said markets? I mean, they have 60+ in the US alone, you'd think they could spare a few for these Eastern-Bloc PC paradises, right? Or could it be that they aren't as big as you think?
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
