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What is interesting is how Minecraft has been pretty much the only game that people actually pay cash for in the Eastern Europe. This is pretty amazing since m
by sireat 12y ago
What is interesting is how Minecraft has been pretty much the only game that people actually pay cash for in the Eastern Europe.
This is pretty amazing since most games and software are pirated.
Of course, people can and do pirate it, but it has a fantastic sell-through that no other game has achieved outside first world.
The popularity among 5-15 year olds is very high.
- thesz 12y agoIf Russia counts for Eastern Europe, then the whole Steam catalog is pretty much the only games that are paid for here. http://www.steamfirst.com/worldwide-steam-sales-by-region-some-impressive-stats/ http://www.steamfirst.com/worldwide-steam-sales-by-region-so... Keep in mind that Russians has much lower income than Western Europeans.
- zyx321 12y agoBut aren't prices in Russia less than half of those in EU/US? I remember that region locking controversy a few years back, where people bought the cheap eastern European boxed copies over the Internet and found that they wouldn't be able to redeem them from a US IP.
- thesz 12y agoI see you and I answer you much less Internet coverage for Russia and less mature credit card support.
- jack9 12y ago> What is interesting is how Minecraft has been pretty much the only game that people actually pay cash for in the Eastern Europe. Mobile game stats show a very different picture.
- davidgerard 12y agoHow do you pirate it? The "demo" .jar is the same as the "paid for" .jar - what you're actually purchasing is authentication against Mojang's servers.
- ben0x539 12y agoYou set up a server for yourself and your friends that doesn't phone home to Mojang to verify logins.