PC gaming and piracy in "out of the gaming market countries"

[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]  Lets also not forget people that quite a few people just plane out can not afford games.  Specially for consoles which are far easier to attain.   Lets not forget that the majority of the population in the world is poverty stricken..  Thus alot of times I tend to question some of these piracy read outs as realistic.MindlessTeef

So people living in poverty can afford gaming consoles and PCs, two extremely expensive hobbies?

Ya, I dont buy that for a second.  Its the privelaged people of the world, not the poverty-stricken, doing piracy.  You think poor people have time to make cracks, install games, etc?  No, theyre too busy working.  And this "majority of the world" you speak of has problably never seen the internet before, let alone a computer built within the past ten years.

Ahhh funny images coming to mind:
-African malnourished baby (the ones with the big stomachs, iodine deficieny, and the flys on their eyes) downloading Supreme Commander to play on their Alienware
-South Pacific rice farmer coming back from a 14 hour day with parasitic worms attached to his feet, checking the download status on his pirated Call of Jaurez game.
-Inuit coming back from clubbing baby seals to feed his tribe and making sure his ethernet connection is still securely plugged into his igloo so his download doesnt get disrupted.
-Vietnam vet with mental issues who lives on the street (thanks Reagan) comes back from foraging the dumpster and loads up his 99 cent copy of C&C3: Kane Edition.

I don't think he ment that poor... I live in Africa (South Africa) and what was said is true... it took me years to save up money to just upgrade my PC and I got myslef in debt in the process as well... I cannot buy every game that I want becuase I don't earn enough, thankfully, I have no kids, but I still have bills and rent... I don't even own a car as I earn about a 1/3 of what I should! (I am in IT, system administrator).

Your "images" are funny though:) SupCom! I love that game funny enough...   

ya guess I  exagerated a bit

[QUOTE="usman182000"]why do all of u gamers give me big favor and all of us ask that modrator the by which reason hi blocked my friend forum and i think that his LEVEL-10 is droped to LEVEL-1 thats not fair i think wat about you guysknut-am

i dont understand what you talk about actually

whats he on about?

and that wall of text is huge, im outta here :o 

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]  Lets also not forget people that quite a few people just plane out can not afford games.  Specially for consoles which are far easier to attain.   Lets not forget that the majority of the population in the world is poverty stricken..  Thus alot of times I tend to question some of these piracy read outs as realistic.mrbojangles25

So people living in poverty can afford gaming consoles and PCs, two extremely expensive hobbies?

Ya, I dont buy that for a second.  Its the privelaged people of the world, not the poverty-stricken, doing piracy.  You think poor people have time to make cracks, install games, etc?  No, theyre too busy working.  And this "majority of the world" you speak of has problably never seen the internet before, let alone a computer built within the past ten years.

Ahhh funny images coming to mind:
-African malnourished baby (the ones with the big stomachs, iodine deficieny, and the flys on their eyes) downloading Supreme Commander to play on their Alienware
-South Pacific rice farmer coming back from a 14 hour day with parasitic worms attached to his feet, checking the download status on his pirated Call of Jaurez game.
-Inuit coming back from clubbing baby seals to feed his tribe and making sure his ethernet connection is still securely plugged into his igloo so his download doesnt get disrupted.
-Vietnam vet with mental issues who lives on the street (thanks Reagan) comes back from foraging the dumpster and loads up his 99 cent copy of C&C3: Kane Edition.

  Yeah they can, if you hadn't noticed not every one stops by their local best buy to pay for it.. Alot of times people sell stolen hardware for cheap and affordable prices to the masses.  Not just that but you should see the amount of burn copies of console games in Asia for instance.

  Glad you actually thought about it instead of spouting off rediculous comments..

  No a prime example is the Asian continent such as china.  Alot of times people will sell stolen hardware for dirt cheap prices, to make a fast buck, same goes for multiple other things. 

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]  Lets also not forget people that quite a few people just plane out can not afford games.  Specially for consoles which are far easier to attain.   Lets not forget that the majority of the population in the world is poverty stricken..  Thus alot of times I tend to question some of these piracy read outs as realistic.mrbojangles25

So people living in poverty can afford gaming consoles and PCs, two extremely expensive hobbies?

Ya, I dont buy that for a second.  Its the privelaged people of the world, not the poverty-stricken, doing piracy.  You think poor people have time to make cracks, install games, etc?  No, theyre too busy working.  And this "majority of the world" you speak of has problably never seen the internet before, let alone a computer built within the past ten years.

Ahhh funny images coming to mind:
-African malnourished baby (the ones with the big stomachs, iodine deficieny, and the flys on their eyes) downloading Supreme Commander to play on their Alienware
-South Pacific rice farmer coming back from a 14 hour day with parasitic worms attached to his feet, checking the download status on his pirated Call of Jaurez game.
-Inuit coming back from clubbing baby seals to feed his tribe and making sure his ethernet connection is still securely plugged into his igloo so his download doesnt get disrupted.
-Vietnam vet with mental issues who lives on the street (thanks Reagan) comes back from foraging the dumpster and loads up his 99 cent copy of C&C3: Kane Edition.

Hehe Bojangles u have a fertile imagination, and that was pretty funny. Although I know he's exaggerating to color the situation, I must say from personal experience that the ppl that buy pirated games r not mostly poor ppl, in fact, I think the  opposite is true. (that applied to buying pirated copies at a vendor). And to download pirated games I say that the person MUST have some money (since they need software knowledge, a PC that will run the modern games nicely and broadband connection) so I say that it's more of a cultural/social problem than a money problem. Not that money doesn't count, but ppl in countries like mine r so used to get pirated goods that they don't even think about getting an original (for the reasons I said in my previous posts), even if they have money. So I think this problem goes a lot deeper than just money.