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Originally Posted by ElAurens
I'm with Chivas and Trumps.
The Moscow expansion will bring in large numbers of customers from Maddox/1C's home market, and by extension, a large inflow of CASH. Thus, the future of the series will be on a much better financial footing.
I wonder how many of the doom and gloomers on this forum hit themselves in the head with a hammer each morning just because it feels so good when the pain subsides...
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I hate to rain on your parade..but NO one and I mean no one in Russia pays more than 10-20 TOPS for a dvd video game. If the dollar to ruble ratio where it last was...29 rubles for one dollar..means...2900 rubles is 100..and 1800 is 50 bucks there..the average salary in Russia is about 4-500 a month..so not a whole lot of folks there popping down 50 bucks for a game..let alone the hardware to play something like this.do you have any idea how much a good rig costs there? 40-50 percent higher than here,, if not more. What IC did was pretty amazing..got US/Western customers to plop down the cash for a beta game..provide all the testing..so they can market something to their home customers.but in the end.the west is where the money is..the new call of duty MW brought in about 1/2 a billion dollars so far...and that is NOT from sales in Russia/eastern europe. We basically beta tested this game for them at a cost of 50 dollars..something the average russian gamer cant afford.