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[bigfatlondonboy]

i,m with you on this one Hazza,games are far to expensive and should be cheaper.until prices drop i for one shall continue downloading them for free..

[hazard]

The point is.
IF everyone paid their share for the games/software the prices WILL be less.

Righhttt. Microsoft comes to mind. Surely Bill Gates didn't make enough money yet.

Unfortunetly with all the piracy the honest ones are the ones who pay the price.
Then again what can I say. Even music CDs with Greek or GC artist are sold illegally in Cyprus. I have not seen this done anywhere else. Maybe in another third world contry, like in Asia and such. But in Europe???

The situation doesn't differ much from Eastern Europe. Check here: http://www.bsa.si/eumapsfinal-4-july.pdf

I neither support piracy nor greedy software corporations. I use Linux.

[Sotos]

Anybody knows where I can find a copy of Fifa 06 on x-box?

[aidy]

In response to an earlier comment saying that if everyone bought the games then the price would come down.

what world are you living in??? we are in a marketing world, which is corrupt with greed. The more people buy, the higher the demand, the more will be charged.

Granted, the costs must be recovered along with a profit margin. But when there is companies like microsoft that are earning more in a nanosecond than i will in a lifetime how can this be justified????[/quote]

[Sotos]

The more people buy, the higher the demand, the more will be charged

I think you are right! So people that buy original should be thankful that not everybody does otherwise they would have to pay much more

[57varieties]

that is exactly what i like in Cyprus. I can get any game i want for the maximum price of 5 pounds.

I can be moral too sometimes and buy an original but only if i cant find it on a copy. eheheheeh

[djtrax98]

I fully agree with everyone that has written in regarding this. The problem is that in Cyprus especially, we dont have a CHOICE like you would in the uk for which we could get cheap software or films and audio. In the Uk every major retail giant tries to outdo the other, and so before you know it you are paying less and less for games and visual audio material.
In cyprus what do we have?
We have one or two outlets that are reputable in every town, NONE of these outlets offer value for money as they all charge prices to reflect the shipping costs of the item into CY, and the end result being is that every single one of us turns round and says, 'why should i pay 22CYP for a double compilation when i can get my friend to send it to me from uk or US or even better when i can download it for free off the internet?'
The recipe for success is simple. BRING PRICES DOWN GIVE PEOPLE MORE CHOICE and people will always opt for original material to pirated stuff. If an original disc of a film cost 11.99 new and 8 pounds pirated i would go for the original copy every time cos of the quality. However if the new dvd cost 20 cyp(average price of dvds in cyp) and 8 pounds pirated what would you choose?
The record industries keep moaning that they are not making enough money.
That explains why so many artists we see on the tv are kitted out in gold from head to toe, go out and buy houses like theres no tomorrow and generally live the life of luxury many of us would never even dream of being true.
GET REAL. piracy will exist until things like the above change. Especially in Cyprus as there is no choice for consumers to be able to buy things.

[Michael]

Quite right. I have never played one of these games in my life. I don’t know the difference between an xbox and a kick box. However, I agree with everybody that pirates these games. Anything that shaves off some of the obscene profits from these corporations can only be a good thing. In the Far East, Thailand and the Malay, there are huge shopping centres that are filled with hundreds of stalls selling pirated films music and I guess games.
You have be a complete twat to buy the “real thing”.

[Hazza]

There are some things that I refuse to have a pirate copy of...

Godfather trilogy
Lord of the rings trilogy

I won't list them all, but I guess I'll say modern classics, I'll only have originals, otherwise, off to the market to buy 5 for £10 which is a bargain!

[Newformz]

Cyprus is very bad for piracy but prices are too high for software & games, i personally dont play latest games except for Sony PSPi prefer the emulators like neogeo to play snk/capcom series of games.

They have very cheap games/cds/dvds at the flea market in Limassol near Fasouri, open all day in the weekend.

For downloads, download Azureus http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ and go to http://btjunkie.org/ for all the latest games etc. Its the best torrent app and the fastest obviosly you need broadband, i hate broadband here its so expensive & slow. In the UK i had a 10 meg connection.