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Old 04-21-2018 , 16:34   Re: Counter-Strike should be free to play?
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In my contry, CS:1.6 costs the same as 1 month of internet (10~ MB speed).
This conversation makes no sense, stop judging other ppl, most non-steam players are kids or people with not much money to waste on a game that they can play for free, specially kids with no acess to mom/dad credit card like all American kids do.
You don't steal a car just because you can't afford one.

Stop with the moronic justification of an illegal act.
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Old 04-21-2018 , 16:40   Re: Counter-Strike should be free to play?
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You don't steal a car just because you can't afford one.

Stop with the moronic justification of an illegal act.
"illegal act" rofl, no point arguing more with you. Bye.
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Old 04-21-2018 , 16:47   Re: Counter-Strike should be free to play?
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Then i wonder how all these poor people have the money to buy a computer and canma afford a monthly fee for internet....
1. You can't download a cracked computer from the internet, can you? In most countries money isn't the issue.

2. The kids aren't buying their own computers. Their parents are. Good luck convincing people that have no clue how computers work that putting your credit card information in a random gaming platform which they never heard of is safe.

3. Kids aren't paying the internet bills.

4. Kids don't have credit cards and in my country there is no other possible payment method.

5. Some people don't even know that the game is not free. The first thing that pops up in Google when you write Counter-Strike 1.6 is a free non-steam version, so why would someone want to buy it if they can get it for free with only one click?
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Old 04-21-2018 , 18:40   Re: Counter-Strike should be free to play?
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"illegal act" rofl, no point arguing more with you. Bye.
You shouldn't argue with me because you have no solid grounds for your argument.
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Old 04-21-2018 , 19:13   Re: Counter-Strike should be free to play?
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You shouldn't argue with me because you have no solid grounds for your argument.
You never download a music song from google or youtube?
You never watched a movie/anime/serie-episode for free on the internet?
You never downloaded cracked program like FRAPS or Adobe Photoshop or torrents?
You bought your Windows OS and Microsoft Office licences?
You bought every single game you played?
You never downloaded a image from google images and placed it on your school work presentations?
You bought your win-rar licence?
You never sold stuff on e-bay without declaring your income?
You never used your phone while driving?
You never watched porn before age-18?
You never smoked light-drugs?
You never gambled CS:GO skins?

Those are ilegal acts too, and iam sure you done almost all of the things above.
So dont judge poor kids that play a oldschool outdated expensive game for free.

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Old 04-21-2018 , 19:20   Re: Counter-Strike should be free to play?
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You never download a music song from google or youtube?
You never watched a movie/anime/serie-episode for free on the internet?
You never downloaded cracked program like FRAPS or Adobe Photoshop or torrents?
You bought your Windows OS and Microsoft Office licences?
You bought every single game you played?
You never downloaded a image from google images and placed it on your school work presentations?
You bought your win-rar licence?
You never sold stuff on e-bay without declaring your income?
You never used your phone while driving?
You never watched porn before age-18?
You never smoked light-drugs?
You never gambled CS:GO skins?

Those are ilegal acts too, and iam sure you done almost all of the things above.
Actually, I have not done quite a few things on that list, but that's besides the point. The difference between your argument and mine is a simple one. I'm willing to admit that those were illegal things and they are not to be promoted, while you are trying to justify them.
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Old 04-21-2018 , 19:25   Re: Counter-Strike should be free to play?
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Actually, I have not done quite a few things on that list, but that's besides the point. The difference between your argument and mine is a simple one. I'm willing to admit that those were illegal things and they are not to be promoted, while you are trying to justify them.
Money is the issue. Most, if not all non-steamers are kids that live in shitty poor contrys like Russian Brazil Portugal, and cant aford it.

CS:1.6 costs 8€, you may think its low price, but EUROPE is fucked up, France and Germany for example have 2000€/3000€ (+) wages, while Portugal Spain Italy Greece Russia have like 300-600€, its a huge difference, how is fair they get 10 times our wages but we pay the same price for the same game?

If everyone was rich, non-steam population would be drasticly reduced.

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Old 04-21-2018 , 21:35   Re: Counter-Strike should be free to play?
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CS:1.6 costs 8€, you may think its low price, but EUROPE is fucked up, France and Germany for example have 2000€/3000€ (+) wages, while Portugal Spain Italy Greece Russia have like 300-600€, its a huge difference, how is fair they get 10 times our wages but we pay the same price for the same game?
They don't pay the same price. Steam has two pricing regions in Europe, one for the countries whose wages are higher ("EU Tier 1") and one for the countries whose wages are lower ("EU Tier 2"). That's not even counting Russia which has its own pricing region.
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Old 04-21-2018 , 21:42   Re: Counter-Strike should be free to play?
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They don't pay the same price. Steam has two pricing regions in Europe, one for the countries whose wages are higher and one for the countries whose wages are lower. That's not even counting Russia which has its own pricing region.
I didn't even know there's that distinction in Steam, I always thought it was only Russia and Europe. But it still seems inconsistent to me. Even though I live in what I would consider to be a low average wage country I have to pay full price for games, I believe.
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Old 04-21-2018 , 21:44   Re: Counter-Strike should be free to play?
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I didn't even know there's that distinction in Steam, I always thought it was only Russia and Europe. But it still seems inconsistent to me. Even though I live in what I would consider to be a low average wage country I have to pay full price for games, I believe.
I wasn't aware of it either until I started talking to a group of people and someone from Italy brought up that games on Steam were generally cheaper there.
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