Friday, May 25, 2012. Report 3

[priller26]

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

Actually, it does work "out of the box". it does run.

Yeah..a Ford Pinto ran right "out of the box" too, but then it would catch fire and blow up if you hit it too hard, so whats your point?

As to Russian gamers, I know many, one very close friend who just got his degree in engineering, and his starting salary was 450 a month, hes 25 and lives with his parents, like most young Russians. After he pays for gas to and from work, helps out with food, this and that, he's lucky if he has two roubles at the end of the month to rub together, so if this is the gamer the devs are trying to accomodate, I can understand why. Not many people there buying 600 dollar gpus. These games sell for very little in Russia, and like everything else, are pirated up the wazoo, if you want a TRUE retail copy of win 7 64 it will be behind glass in a store and twice or more the price here, EVERYONE except fortune 500 western companies run pirated microsoft software, and rarely run anti virus so everything gets buggered up, so don't expect them to be running western gaming rigs anytime soon. Its just not feasible for them.

Ohh, and lest I forget, since you need a good inernet connection to play the game, and most people live in soviet built monster housing units and krushev apt blocks, forget about individuals having access to good high speed internet. All in all, I can't see the reason to focus on the "eastern europe" market, the real money is in the West. I understand they are trying to support the Russian market, but the Russian market can't be compared to the West. Either way, it leaves those in the West waiting.