3rd world vs 1st world

[noxibox]

I hope all of you complaining about prices & what not understand how much time & effort it takes to build them.

So then why do UK releases of games not contain more game than US releases? We South Africans should be getting even more since we're paying more, and presumably that higher price is because of the extra stuff they spent time and effort building just for us.

Also, all you piraters out there, think about how much you cost the gaming industry when you don't buy their games.

Maybe it costs them nothing. Of course if they want to spend their money on copy protection, lawyers, cocaine, hookers and so on that's their problem, not mine.

Normally you would find the problem in the supply chain

Typical US Game path: Developer -> Publisher -> retail -> gamer
Typical SA Game path: Developer -> Publisher -> Regional Publisher -> Distributor -> Retail -> Gamer

Everyone want a piece of the pie, thats why I buy via Steam, it cuts the middle men out.

But local PC game prices are already not really out of line and in fact cheaper than Europe. Can't buy console games on Steam, and that's where the big disparity exists.

 

[gkisela]

We're paying more because of the transportation costs as explained with the middlemen chain by Elimentals.

As for your comment about it costing them nothing, it actually does. You already mentioned copy protection & lawyers. Yeah, that's for fighting piracy so already there's costs. Also, what they want to spend their stuff on actually is your problem because you're paying for their living expenses which is only fair since you just got a game out of the deal. That's equivalent trade & that's what our economy runs on. Everyone getting a deal.

You make a good point about console games, I agree there's a big disparity there & we don't have any way of going around that like PC gamers have with Steam.