Which country is the worst place to be a gamer?

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#1 normal_gamer
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Which country do you think is the worst place to be a gamer? I mean because of game bans and censors etc.

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#2 DarkLink77
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Australia. It's not even a contest.

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#3 SpinoRaptor24
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Australia. It's not even a contest.

DarkLink77

^^This.

Censorship and delays galore.

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#4 millerlight89
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I would say Australia. I feel bad for gamers there. Though it is a pretty kewl country.
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#5 Mr_Cumberdale
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Australia. They ban way too many games for ridiculous reasons.
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#6 lafiro93
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India!!!

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#7 SpiritOfFire117
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Australia. It's not even a contest.

DarkLink77

I was thinking of some third-world septic colony, but that works too. :P

[spoiler] No offense to Aussies. [/spoiler]

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#8 Jynxzor
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Australia hands down, the government down there seems to have a personal vendetta against the gaming industry with how bad the delays and censorship is.
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#9 millerlight89
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[QUOTE="DarkLink77"]

Australia. It's not even a contest.

SpiritOfFire117

I was thinking of some third-world septic colony, but that works too. :P

Not too sure people living in Third World Countries plays games or really cares.

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#10 funsohng
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Korea at least Australia gets games in their language. We have harsh AND corrupt censorship system (Mario was once rated an equivalence of Mature, since one of its minigames depicted a slot machine, and they somehow related that to gambling), plus 80% our games are not translated EDIT: delays? We just got Super Smash Bros Brawl here, and Twilight Princess arrived 2 years late. And our Wii is not backward compatible.
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#11 DarkLink77
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[QUOTE="SpiritOfFire117"]

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"]

Australia. It's not even a contest.

millerlight89

I was thinking of some third-world septic colony, but that works too. :P

Not too sure people living in Third World Countries plays games or really cares.

I'm sure they're more worried about things like food. He wasn't being serious, though.
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#12 SgtKevali
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Afghanistan when they were under the Taliban.

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#13 The-Mosher
Member since 2009 • 1885 Posts

Australia. It's not even a contest.

DarkLink77
This. Especially when it comes to pricing their games.
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#14 88mphSlayer
Member since 2010 • 3201 Posts

North Korea

Republic of Congo

Sudan

Somolia

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#15 SpiritOfFire117
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[QUOTE="millerlight89"]

[QUOTE="SpiritOfFire117"]I was thinking of some third-world septic colony, but that works too. :P

DarkLink77

Not too sure people living in Third World Countries plays games or really cares.

I'm sure they're more worried about things like food. He wasn't being serious, though.

Nah I wasn't being serious.

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#16 Sp4rtan_3
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Africa -__-
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#17 OreoMilkshake
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Maybe a country that doesn't get video games.
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#18 Gxgear
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What's the place that still charges almost a thousand bucks for a PS2?

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#19 Kashiwaba
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Korea at least Australia gets games in their language. We have harsh AND corrupt censorship system (Mario was once rated an equivalence of Mature, since one of its minigames depicted a slot machine, and they somehow related that to gambling), plus 80% our games are not translated EDIT: delays? We just got Super Smash Bros Brawl here, and Twilight Princess arrived 2 years late. And our Wii is not backward compatible.funsohng

I've always wondered do they teach Japanese in S.Korea in school or what cuz they always get untranslated Japanese games there.

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#20 lafiro93
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Africa -__-Sp4rtan_3
Nope, I have seen them play Halo 3/Reach :)

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#21 SuperBobz
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Any country where video games are few and far between or cost too much for the average citizen.

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#22 Solid_Tango
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[QUOTE="DarkLink77"]

Australia. It's not even a contest.

SpinoRaptor24

^^This.

Censorship and delays galore.

Cant you guys import? or just take a trip to japan? I ll say the whole african continent, people cant afford consoles there :( ( except for south africa)
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[QUOTE="funsohng"]Korea at least Australia gets games in their language. We have harsh AND corrupt censorship system (Mario was once rated an equivalence of Mature, since one of its minigames depicted a slot machine, and they somehow related that to gambling), plus 80% our games are not translated EDIT: delays? We just got Super Smash Bros Brawl here, and Twilight Princess arrived 2 years late. And our Wii is not backward compatible.Kashiwaba

I've always wondered do they teach Japanese in S.Korea in school or what cuz they always get untranslated Japanese games there.

The video gaming market is just too small for any of the major publisher to localize every single game. (And percentage-wise, we do have more Japanese-speaking population than probably any non-Japanese country too, and yes Japanese is offered as a third language course along with Mandarin) That changed with Nintendo, since Nintendo of Korea's policy is to only release localized games, but not that made the Nintendo library in Korea relatively weaker. But hey, we did get Twilight Princess, which was the first home console Zelda to be fully localized. And now we are finally getting Final Fantasy XIII localized for the first time in the series (excluding X-2, which isn't even in the main series anyway). Most of the Sony and MS first party games were localized tho, from God of War, Halo, Killzone 2, inFamous, Gears of War, etc, but most of the third party games are left as it is. And sometimes we get this weird situation where a distributor can only afford one version of the game so only release PS3 version of the game translated, while other company (usually the first party) releases it untranslated on 360 or vice versa.
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#24 R_pwns_n00bs
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The Bahamas, they don't have jack **** electronics
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#26 Zerocrossings
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I always feel sorry for Europeans and Australians.

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#27 Kashiwaba
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[QUOTE="SpinoRaptor24"]

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"]

Australia. It's not even a contest.

Solid_Tango

^^This.

Censorship and delays galore.

Cant you guys import? or just take a trip to japan? I ll say the whole african continent, people cant afford consoles there :( ( except for south africa)

Moroco, Egypt, algeria and Tunisia they can afford it.

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#28 Shad0ki11
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Anywhere besides the USA or Japan?

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#29 R_pwns_n00bs
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yeah dude i heard theyre not getting zero collection :(
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#30 Giancar
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Venezuela due the clown known as Chavez
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#31 BiancaDK
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North Korea

Republic of Congo

Sudan

Somalia

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This, the aussies got it good in comparison.
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#32 R_pwns_n00bs
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any country not getting zero collection= sad
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#33 iliatay
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North Korea

Republic of Congo

Sudan

Somolia

88mphSlayer
lol nice list i dont think anyone in north korea has even heard about video games :S
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#34 skektek
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North Korea: they don't have electricity ;)

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#35 R_pwns_n00bs
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That was mean lol
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#36 Giancar
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North Korea: they don't have electricity ;)

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rofl you should add Cuba too...

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#37 Sp4rtan_3
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[QUOTE="Sp4rtan_3"]Africa -__-lafiro93

Nope, I have seen them play Halo 3/Reach :)

Sarcasm ;) Africa = CONTINENT lol
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#38 R_pwns_n00bs
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Toasted, then buttered, then eaten, by a land shark lmao
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#39 narutoisapirate
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North Korea: they don't have electricity ;)

skektek

then how do they play starcraft?! :o

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#40 R_pwns_n00bs
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Warcraft owns starcraft, i dont care if theyre brothers
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#41 funsohng
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then how do they play starcraft?! :onarutoisapirate
i hope you are joking
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#42 narutoisapirate
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Warcraft owns starcraft, i dont care if theyre brothersR_pwns_n00bs

its all opinion..

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#43 Suffca
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In communist Russia, the game plays you!

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#44 R_pwns_n00bs
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true, i just think warcraft is a little more open
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#45 foxhound_fox
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Any place where the standard of living makes being a gamer only possible for the richest possible people. Places like Russia, Brazil and China. Censorship can be avoided by importing... affording a console or PC in the first place makes it that much more difficult.

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[QUOTE="funsohng"]Korea at least Australia gets games in their language. We have harsh AND corrupt censorship system (Mario was once rated an equivalence of Mature, since one of its minigames depicted a slot machine, and they somehow related that to gambling), plus 80% our games are not translated EDIT: delays? We just got Super Smash Bros Brawl here, and Twilight Princess arrived 2 years late. And our Wii is not backward compatible.

Wow, that's terrible :(. And guys / gals, are Aussie PS3s region free? If so, you can ship games if you want right? Still a pain though..
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Brazil: PS3 costs US$600 360 and Wii cost US$500 Games are US$100 Damn import taxes.
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#49 narutoisapirate
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[QUOTE="narutoisapirate"]then how do they play starcraft?! :ofunsohng
i hope you are joking

yes, i was.

it was sarcasm!

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#50 skektek
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[QUOTE="skektek"]

North Korea: they don't have electricity ;)

narutoisapirate

then how do they play starcraft?! :o

I think it is South Korea that plays Starcraft.