Posted December 05, 2014
Matruchus: To be fair at that price the difference for pricing would not be that bad. I would possibly buy it if I would like the game and if I could afford it but still I would not feel good by buying it. It just does not feel right. Nothing personal against you or your game. These kind of pricing schemes just make schisms between people and are still antithema to what gog was before.
Also it would really interest me in which pocket you would put my country.
Personally for me, it feels right because even if I've always been below the poverty line, I feel lucky being born in Belgium because even if we're poor we have access to a lot of things and as much as food and shelter is the priority (I've lived a short time in the streets so I know how it feels like), entertainment is also a basic need of human beings (otherwise, we wouldn't have invented music and paintings) and to go back to our subject, it bothers me that people can't have financial access to what we take for granted. Giving things for free wouldn't be good as an independant worker has to eat (and pay his monthly 250€ taxes) but in the long run, I think lowering prices for poorer countries is fairer to them while not putting the independant's sustainability in jeopardy. Also it would really interest me in which pocket you would put my country.
That reminds me of this photo-article of children playing videogames in Bangladesh:
http://www.polygon.com/features/2014/11/24/7258031/dhaka-bangladesh-video-games
Even if 3$ is too high for them, at least the Bengali middle-class could afford it.
BTW, it would be interesting if Nerdook could write about this subject (as he lives in Malaysia)
And before I forget: I consider Slovenia as a part of the Balkans so it would be in the 3$ range ;)