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Originally Posted by NEWGUY
I don't think that Westerners, with Russian copies are whining, so much as they are pointing out a very important point. Here is an industry, exploiting high skilled low cost labor and here is a publisher able to make a profit selling a Russian made game for $14. Westerners went out off their way to take advantage of the lowest Global price. If a Russian publisher can access the Westerner customers, tailor the product to their needs and sell the product at the Russian price point; then Global trade hits a home run. This is a great case study or Harvard and is a beautiful exercise in Global free market capitalism.
If Global customers can bypass the intrenched interest of regionalist rich hypocrites, seeking to live like parasites off of cheap Global labor, while passing off high prices to local customers, then we are all better off.  |
I get the point. You are right. in a way.
Especially in this case, it wasn't like a western Publisher had a concept and was looking for cheap workers in the East and ride their backs to financial success. Merely, it was an opportunity for 1C, dramatically increasing funds on the project and getting way better distribution channels than without UBI.
After all, the word whining was a bit unlucky. What stays the same is the fact that no one who bought a Russian copy and cannot speak Russian should moan about the inability to switch to English. Plus: This time, the western version was localized from Russian, I suppose. Another thing that becomes much easier with the infrastructure you get by working with a big publisher. And localization costs a whole lot of money. Just pretend we're paying for localization
And please keep in mind that 14 Dollars is a bit more money for the average Russian than for a middle class British guy. And this is not about currencies, but about average income.