So it seems that it might be worth it for Larian to make a Russian release of their products? Or do the majority of people in Russia speak English? Do people in Russia buy legalized games or does everyone assume to pirate over there?
From what I can guess at, most Americans buy their games. There is a computer video game stores in just about every shopping center. I have two in my area, GameStop and GameCrazy. Gamestop has very poor customer relations, I got to GameCrazy. Once Larian gives a release date I'll be able to pre-order this game. If most Americans pirated their games, I doubt these stores would be able to keep open.
It be awesome if Larian can sell their product in another large country like Russia.
Well, at first Divinity II has not been released yet in russian shops. But of course, every product released on russian language has more chances to be bought than one released on english (other languages in games are almost dead here). A lot of people here SPEAK English, but very few of them speak English WELL. Russia is corrupted with pirates, they are everywhere, every single computer software is cracked, almost every single game and VHS/DVD is pirated. There are even some events here like "Bring pirated product and gain money or legal version of it!" where pirated products are simply BURNT. I've seen huge bonfires with pirated VHS burning in them. I would say that there are 3 types of people in Russia who buy legal goods:
1) People who have no idea about pirated products.
2) People who already have a pirated product but want to support a company.
3) People who are extremely rich or sick.
Quite a sad picture, isn't it...
I also forgot to say that a man can buy a pirated product in a SHOP (e.g. a CD shop in almost every supermarket).
