Quote a couple times that Montezuma's Return is quite expensive in some South American countries I live in the United States End quote Isn't south American countries part of the united states? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:55 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] piracy of judgment day
Hi Ari, I totally understand where those people are coming from in the cases below, and I can sympathize with their situation. Unfortunately, that isn't the fault of the company that produced the product in question. It is the fault of society in general, and the economic status of the developing country where the person resides. For example, I have been told a couple times that Montezuma's Return is quite expensive in some South American countries, and have been asked if I could lower the price for them. Well, the problem is I live in the United States and I need to charge an amount of money suited for the econemy where I live. If I cut the price in half to lower the payment for that person's econemy then I am losing money and am unable to sustain a quality of income necessary for my own country's econemy. There isn't a good answer for this kind of catch 22 situation. With a company such as FS the reason the software is so high is they have several programmers and tech support personelle making around $60000 a year last I checked. In order to pay all those programmers, tech support people, and sales reps the software has to make enough in order to pay all those employees and cover things like computer upgrades, software upgrades, etc to keep the business running. Selling Jaws dirt cheap to every blind user on SSI, in developing countries, etc isn't going to pay all those employees and pay the electric bill do to economic prices. We can treat this has a Robinhood situation where we rob the ritch to support the poor, but never see by robbing the ritch we eventually hurt the poor as well. If you steel income required for upgrades, research, etc the next product release isn't going to be as good as it could have been. Often times we might not even know what was left out do to our piracy. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
