Posted February 20, 2015
Our internet is dire cheap (for example, I pay $5 for 10mbit, can get twice as much for 2 more), and there is no total control over it like in the country of "freedom".
Pirating games became a habit,
Now there appears circle of "Publishers don't translate games to Russian because there is no market" -> "Pirates translate game themselves" -> "Market filled, when game officially appears on Russia, niche is already filled" -> "Publishers think that there is no market".
As a parallel example, there is a big "scanlation" movement where fans of manga scan and translate titles that aren't available in their country. Yet publishers often do eventually release the books there, and when they do, most fans buy them and the scanlation boards take down the free scans. Those fans understand that supporting the legitimate product puts money back into the hands of the creators, and shows the publishers that they want the products brought to their country.
Let me know when the majority of Russian game pirates start doing the same.
You've got one weak-ass nation if OUR media controls YOUR policy. All it does over here most of the time is make the average citizen stupider.
So it was our tanks that rolled over the border and our rockets that have killed all those Ukrainians, including civilians? I must not have noticed the stars-and-stripes on them.
One things I've learned from all this - some Russians are really good at backfilling the justification for their abhorrent acts. In one post you've tried to wash your hands of both piracy and military aggression, while trying to paint the Russians as the poor pitiful victims. And like all bullies, they cry foul when the tables are turned.
