so..... how cheap is china?

one my friends is flying to China next week and i was wondering how much can games cost there in US$ and what games do you recommend that are coming next week or the one after that he might be able to get there.

Haha, in China here (I'm Chinese living in Beijing) we play every game almost for free! Here we have best technicians and volunteers who work for underground pirate companies and cracked almost every platform and every game.
Then let me tell you, here a PS-CD or PS2-DVD costs 4 or 5 RMB Yuan (about 0.7 US dollar). As for PSP or DS, totally free ! We just download the ROM from any domestic game website mostly using Bit-Torrent, put the ROM into the Memory Stick, and time to play !
For PS3 games which you are asking about, I dont know much because I dont have one. But if you thought here we cannot get PS3 because of no offcial sale, you were wrong. Game businessmen here stock in game equipments directly from Japan, and they make "pirate-friendly" modification on the machines in advance before selling them.
You guys, China is really worth paying a visit. I knew many foreign students here buy heaps of movie DVDs before going back home on Christmas. Ha Ha!

leo_zhang

hah thats pretty intense

Haha, in China here (I'm Chinese living in Beijing) we play every game almost for free! Here we have best technicians and volunteers who work for underground pirate companies and cracked almost every platform and every game.
Then let me tell you, here a PS-CD or PS2-DVD costs 4 or 5 RMB Yuan (about 0.7 US dollar). As for PSP or DS, totally free ! We just download the ROM from any domestic game website mostly using Bit-Torrent, put the ROM into the Memory Stick, and time to play !
For PS3 games which you are asking about, I dont know much because I dont have one. But if you thought here we cannot get PS3 because of no offcial sale, you were wrong. Game businessmen here stock in game equipments directly from Japan, and they make "pirate-friendly" modification on the machines in advance before selling them.
You guys, China is really worth paying a visit. I knew many foreign students here buy heaps of movie DVDs before going back home on Christmas. Ha Ha!

leo_zhang

Gives unexpected reply of the day award. :lol:

Haha, in China here (I'm Chinese living in Beijing) we play every game almost for free! Here we have best technicians and volunteers who work for underground pirate companies and cracked almost every platform and every game.
Then let me tell you, here a PS-CD or PS2-DVD costs 4 or 5 RMB Yuan (about 0.7 US dollar). As for PSP or DS, totally free ! We just download the ROM from any domestic game website mostly using Bit-Torrent, put the ROM into the Memory Stick, and time to play !
For PS3 games which you are asking about, I dont know much because I dont have one. But if you thought here we cannot get PS3 because of no offcial sale, you were wrong. Game businessmen here stock in game equipments directly from Japan, and they make "pirate-friendly" modification on the machines in advance before selling them.
You guys, China is really worth paying a visit. I knew many foreign students here buy heaps of movie DVDs before going back home on Christmas. Ha Ha!

leo_zhang

That's why China is having an economic boom right now because they are a bunch of thieves that could care less about copyright's, patents, etc.

Not to mention everything they export is cheaply made; IE toys with lead paint, make up with lead paint, baby beds that choke infants, etc....

Haha, in China here (I'm Chinese living in Beijing) we play every game almost for free! Here we have best technicians and volunteers who work for underground pirate companies and cracked almost every platform and every game.
Then let me tell you, here a PS-CD or PS2-DVD costs 4 or 5 RMB Yuan (about 0.7 US dollar). As for PSP or DS, totally free ! We just download the ROM from any domestic game website mostly using Bit-Torrent, put the ROM into the Memory Stick, and time to play !
For PS3 games which you are asking about, I dont know much because I dont have one. But if you thought here we cannot get PS3 because of no offcial sale, you were wrong. Game businessmen here stock in game equipments directly from Japan, and they make "pirate-friendly" modification on the machines in advance before selling them.
You guys, China is really worth paying a visit. I knew many foreign students here buy heaps of movie DVDs before going back home on Christmas. Ha Ha!

leo_zhang

Reverse engineering is usually easier than engineer. Fact of the matter is that it is causing hardworking companies to lose money.

The Chinese have no respect for anything...

As for being poor and in college, gaming shouldnt be your priority. Graduating should. Yeah I went through the same deal. Then when you get out, you get a good job and its all over.

Reverse engineering is usually easier than engineer. Fact of the matter is that it is causing hardworking companies to lose money.

The Chinese have no respect for anything...

As for being poor and in college, gaming shouldnt be your priority. Graduating should. Yeah I went through the same deal. Then when you get out, you get a good job and its all over.

Vasichko

It is just fair use.............

Reverse engineering is usually easier than engineer. Fact of the matter is that it is causing hardworking companies to lose money.

The Chinese have no respect for anything...

As for being poor and in college, gaming shouldnt be your priority. Graduating should. Yeah I went through the same deal. Then when you get out, you get a good job and its all over.

Vasichko

Thanks but no thanks. I don't need a lecture on what should be my priorities. I know what they are already. I was mentioning that there are games I'd love to play, doesn'tnecessarily mean I put my time & energy to obtain them.

Oh yeah, when you get out, it's over all right. Enough student loans to crush you while your Boss sucks your soul out day to day. I work with graduate students for a softwarecompany to hear enough of their BS complaints even though they get some sweet pay.

I heard that some 95% of all Windows copies are illegal in China.

Since I work for a (healthcare) software company, they say in meetings and stuff how they want to expand in places like China but don't want to risk the software being sold once and then every hospital in the country sharing it... plus they said something about the coding is different? as in not binary?

Haha, in China here (I'm Chinese living in Beijing) we play every game almost for free! Here we have best technicians and volunteers who work for underground pirate companies and cracked almost every platform and every game.
Then let me tell you, here a PS-CD or PS2-DVD costs 4 or 5 RMB Yuan (about 0.7 US dollar). As for PSP or DS, totally free ! We just download the ROM from any domestic game website mostly using Bit-Torrent, put the ROM into the Memory Stick, and time to play !
For PS3 games which you are asking about, I dont know much because I dont have one. But if you thought here we cannot get PS3 because of no offcial sale, you were wrong. Game businessmen here stock in game equipments directly from Japan, and they make "pirate-friendly" modification on the machines in advance before selling them.
You guys, China is really worth paying a visit. I knew many foreign students here buy heaps of movie DVDs before going back home on Christmas. Ha Ha!

leo_zhang

Glad you said that. I was about to as well. South east asia in general is king of black market games. Just look at e-bay. You can buy almost any movie, anime, pc game, or video game for next to nothing.

I guess its a pretty crappy company then. We have a blast at work, get tons of work done, and my bosses dont suck my soul. If I feel like a need a day off after working hard, I get a day off, no problem, no questions asked.

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Reverse engineering is usually easier than engineer. Fact of the matter is that it is causing hardworking companies to lose money.

The Chinese have no respect for anything...

As for being poor and in college, gaming shouldnt be your priority. Graduating should. Yeah I went through the same deal. Then when you get out, you get a good job and its all over.

envybianchi

Thanks but no thanks. I don't need a lecture on what should be my priorities. I know what they are already. I was mentioning that there are games I'd love to play, doesn'tnecessarily mean I put my time & energy to obtain them.

Oh yeah, when you get out, it's over all right. Enough student loans to crush you while your Boss sucks your soul out day to day. I work with graduate students for a softwarecompany to hear enough of their BS complaints even though they get some sweet pay.