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I can't recall what I paid for BD exactly, but it wasn't much cheaper than, say, KotOR. Incidentally, where I live, it's pat-easy to get pirated copies. Ah, hindsight. (I'll tell you a secret: I bought a pirated copy of KotOR first, because I was very leery of a Bioware product at that point and the legitimate copies took a long time shipping where I live. I finished the game. Then I went out and bought a legitimate copy.)



Did you mention Hong Kong in another post?

My brother recently retired back to Australia after many years living in HK and has some stories to tell of going into games shops that turned out to be pirate places. Things like doors suddenly slamming shut and customers and staff standing in the dark until the patrolling cop passed. And all the actual CDs being in a van parked in an alley for quick escape, while the customers chose from empty display sleeves in the shops. Apparently the authorities would close them down occasionally, but they'd pop up again a week or two later.

Despite my not being comfortable with the process, he'd still occasionally send me CDs. Usually they turned out to be something I already had but if not, like you, I'd treat them as 'demos' and buy a copy here if the game was any good. The last one he sent was the most recent Myst (Uru?) which I just stuck on a shelf and forgot about. Months later I decided to have a quick look before I threw it out and discovered that instead of a game CD it was 14 tracks of dire Chinese cat torturing pop music! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />