Good Game Interview with Gabe Newell

But… we learn something important in the interview ! (concerning 1€=$1)
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=> See : “… and as soon as the product became available at the same time that was available in (ed : he’s enumerating)… Australia, in the UK, in the United States, and was localized in Russia, all of a sudden our piracy problems in Russia, disappear”.
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It’s sad to say, but like most people in the world, Gabe N is influenced by the surrounding ethnocentrism and see the world like an US citizen.
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He doesn’t even say “europe” or “world”, but enumerate the most important countries with English as their official/national language (look at the 1997 pie chart on the right : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Geographical_distribution ).
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Like most of us see Asia as being “Japan+China” (+India +Korea +Russia + Hit-by-tsunami-countries for a few more people), Gabe N probably see Europe as the “Old Continent”, not really in the now.
Maybe he knows that UK (US independence), Germany (Third Reich), France (D-Day & De Gaulle), Spain (spanish language) and Italy (pasta, pizza, mafia) are in the same “Europe”-thing thanks to WW2, but that’s the best we can expect.
=> Who want to travel to Seattle to give an Europe map to Gabe ? :D
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Test : try to enumerate 80% of USA states or South America countries and you’ll see it’s not that easy…