Kasz216 said:
huaxiong90 said:
Kasz216 said:
"American point of view"?
I'm talking about what people in Brazil tell me... and what i've read from Brazil.
So it's a Brazillian point of view.
The market is all blackmarket and piracy because the prices are too high. Occasionally with buying a console from the stores at full price then hacking it.
Example article I just found
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26645/Analysis_Inside_Brazils_Video_Game_Ecosystem.php
Apparently Brazil USED to be a great place to buy games... till the prices went all insane. Now it's just buy the consoles and piracy. How do you stop piracy? By offering software at a price that people want to buy it at. How do you raise piracy, by having unreasonable prices that people aren't going to buy it at. It's that simple.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_201/6059-A-Nation-of-Pirates
Intersetingly they have different numbers money wise then the Per Capita GDP... and hilarious alarmism.
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That's still technically an "American" point of view. 
O-)
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Yeah, the actual from Brazil people i've talked too aren't quotable articles... but actual people.
Who used to be on this site. Heck, I'm sure if any brazilians were walking by they'd back me up. Though I'm sure they tend to avoid piracy threads... because everyone pirates... pretty much because they have too... thanks to their dumb government.
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I think ethomaz spoke once about ridiculous prices in his country (Brazil, that is).
Btw, it was a joke on how Brazil is part of South "America". (just in case you didn't get it)
