Pricing is one of the least important aspects?
Yeah FOR YOU it is but we actually pay double in many cases Mr. Newell.
Good Game Interview with Gabe Newell
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6 responses to “Good Game Interview with Gabe Newell”
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South America countries is easy, states? Not really. But it’s a different thing, there are many states there, and they can’t really be comparable to a whole country.
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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… -
// If possible, tell us a little bit *before* (put a news 1 or 2 day before) changing the website (pretty cool btw) :)
// hopefully I backuped all my messages, so here’s *again* my double post :wow wow wow ! STOP, Context Time !
Gabe N was talking about piracy and why some people don’t “pay” their games (and pirate them for free instead).
So when he says @ 15:00 (in the full 23 min video) “… and pricing really, is one of the least important aspect of that whole occasion”, he says that piracy is due to a bad services from the publisher/devs (on of his example is localization in Russia), not due to the price.
He said (few seconds before) that these people have a $2000 computer, spending $50 or more per month for the internet connection, so the problem is not about paying a game $50 or $40, it’s more about feeling the game worth it and devs deserving this money :)
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