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#1 paulokoenigkam
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An xbox 360, model PRO costed 800,00 american dollars, a game 100,00 , and the minimum wage was around 1,50 ?

My country works like that.

kthxbye

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#2 Gamerzone23
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NO!
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#3 Lakrum
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Lol you live in Brazil right? Ya I dont think its that high for those items, even if you import them and the minmum wage must be higher then that :P

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#4 Innocentguy757
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absolutely not
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#5 OfficialBed
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Nope

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#6 Toxic8
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Probably not.I love gaming but it would have to take a back seat to the necessary things in life.

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#7 monkeymoose5000
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I wouldn't have them legally, but yes.
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#8 rattleheadxyz
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As long as I could still afford a ski mask and walk into a bank I would.

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#9 Suicidal-Fear
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As long as I could still afford a ski mask and walk into a bank I would.

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:lol: so true, but my real answer no
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#10 dracosummoner
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An xbox 360, model PRO costed 800,00 american dollars, a game 100,00 , and the minimum wage was around 1,50 ?

My country works like that.

kthxbye

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I'm not going to ask where you live (I can understand if you'd rather not say), but I was just curious -- you're asking people if they would still game if they had to live under the conditions you live under, and yet you're asking this on a gaming forum. May I ask what games you do play?
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#11 doubalfa
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I live in similar conditions and I still game, and pay for all my stuff
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#12 raylewisnfl52
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I think I would be working my butt off to get a slice of bread
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#13 paulokoenigkam
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[QUOTE="paulokoenigkam"]

An xbox 360, model PRO costed 800,00 american dollars, a game 100,00 , and the minimum wage was around 1,50 ?

My country works like that.

kthxbye

dracosummoner
I'm not going to ask where you live (I can understand if you'd rather not say), but I was just curious -- you're asking people if they would still game if they had to live under the conditions you live under, and yet you're asking this on a gaming forum. May I ask what games you do play?

I'm brazilian, and for the games I play *points at gamertag*
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#14 paulokoenigkam
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Lol you live in Brazil right? Ya I dont think its that high for those items, even if you import them and the minmum wage must be higher then that :P

Lakrum
Not exactly like that because currency exchange value changes every day, but it floats around those values =) If you import them it's probably even more expensive due import taxes...
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#15 craigalan23
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Nah i'd master ball in the cup.

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#16 SpectreBoy6
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hell no

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#17 Phoenix534
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NO WAY!!! Food, water, clothing, housing>gaming.

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#18 ROBBYBEAR1985
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[QUOTE="Lakrum"]

Lol you live in Brazil right? Ya I dont think its that high for those items, even if you import them and the minmum wage must be higher then that :P

paulokoenigkam
Not exactly like that because currency exchange value changes every day, but it floats around those values =) If you import them it's probably even more expensive due import taxes...

My guess is, please do not be offended, that you are apart of Brazil's upper class? Do you plan on getting the UFC game? lol
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#19 Crocodile_Key
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no, boycott it

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#20 Un4givingAsault
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I would move to china, get a job working in manufacturing of the machines, gradually steal the parts to make one over time and build my own.

Or kidnap a panda and hold it hostage for a 360.

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#21 UT_Wrestler
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If games were that expensive, then they wouldn't exist because nobody could afford to pay that kind of money.
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#22 iam2green
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no, i think that would be to expensive to get into. i would wait until the price drops to like $400 american. i would look to buy a game somwhere else. maybe get the system imported to ur country to cheaper then what the system cost now.
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#23 Palantas
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No, I probably wouldn't. I don't have any hobbies with an entry price point of $80,000. Military officers aren't that well paid.

Nah i'd master ball in the cup.

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It's okay if you drop the ball, because the ball is connected to a string which is attached to the cup.

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#24 Sepewrath
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You mean if gaming was reserved for the super rich which most of us are not even close to? Then that would easily be no.
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#25 paulokoenigkam
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[QUOTE="paulokoenigkam"][QUOTE="Lakrum"]

Lol you live in Brazil right? Ya I dont think its that high for those items, even if you import them and the minmum wage must be higher then that :P

ROBBYBEAR1985
Not exactly like that because currency exchange value changes every day, but it floats around those values =) If you import them it's probably even more expensive due import taxes...

My guess is, please do not be offended, that you are apart of Brazil's upper class? Do you plan on getting the UFC game? lol

Nope, I worked for months and sold my ps2 to buy one. I'm a student and live with my parents so I don't have much to spend my money with things other than a date, or something I may occasionaly need, so my money was mostly for gaming. If I remember correctly, took me almost a year to pay it.
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#26 AndYOU
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Probably not
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#27 porky_ownsu
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Do people think that he is saying it costs 80,000 dollars for a console?

he means 800 dollars. SO yes i probably would game

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#28 craigalan23
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Do people think that he is saying it costs 80,000 dollars for a console?

he means 800 dollars. SO yes i probably would game

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Minimum wage is $1.50.. Games cost $100 and the system costs $800.

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#29 funymunky
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**** no! I'd just try to get enough money to eat!
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#30 MissMorphine
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i prolly wouldnt. or maybe i will. but i will have to share it with my brother.

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#31 Seig5000
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it would proably be what i saved up after i spent what i needed on necessities. gaming is my only hobby, so the only other thing i would have other than that is glaring at a picture of my leader and thinking angry thoughts at whoever's fault it is that our economy is bad enough that things are that expensive.

of course you have to wonder if a place that bad off even has easily accessed electricity to play the games. if it costs to much for electricity that it takes up your entire budget, then you can't but games anyway.

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#33 Dawq902
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Hell no! Also you misplaced the commas in your numbers.

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#34 Morning_Revival
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I wouldnt buy the Console for the first few years and I wouldnt buy any games new. If I did it at all.
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#35 maxgamer8
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No way dude thatd burn a hole in my pocket...or just make my pants burst into flames. Some of you guys are freaks...go outside or something...

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#36 paulokoenigkam
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Hell no! Also you misplaced the commas in your numbers.

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Um how is that? Before comma, dollars -> 800,00
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#37 dracosummoner
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Hell no! Also you misplaced the commas in your numbers.

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Actually, the commas are correctly placed. Sort of. Several countries outside of the United States don't use the X,XXX.XX style of rendering numbers. They use something closer to X XXX,XX , if I'm not mistaken.
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#38 prehuang
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Well I will if paying such a high cost could still make me feel fun...

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#39 mark1982
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Best bet would be to get a friend who travels a lot to buy games for you in different countries I suppose.
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#40 sourcerah
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[QUOTE="ROBBYBEAR1985"][QUOTE="paulokoenigkam"] Not exactly like that because currency exchange value changes every day, but it floats around those values =) If you import them it's probably even more expensive due import taxes...paulokoenigkam
My guess is, please do not be offended, that you are apart of Brazil's upper class? Do you plan on getting the UFC game? lol

Nope, I worked for months and sold my ps2 to buy one. I'm a student and live with my parents so I don't have much to spend my money with things other than a date, or something I may occasionaly need, so my money was mostly for gaming. If I remember correctly, took me almost a year to pay it.

You may not be rich but your family has more money than most. I see Call of Duty, Resident 5, Left 4 Dead, and Gears 2... There's a lot of people I I know that can only afford a few games a year. You just bought 2 new games in less than 5 months. If the prices are how you say, you are at the very least in the upper middle class. Everybody else said they wouldn't be gaming, you're the only one who would. I know I definitely would not be...
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#41 sourcerah
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Hell no! Also you misplaced the commas in your numbers.

Dawq902
I wish you people would stop with this. Does it really matter? Is he being graded?? Everybody understood what he meant... Do you do this to your friends when they mispell a word or make a grammatical error in a text message that they sent to you? Do you even have friends that send you text msgs??
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#42 Blue_Abyss
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No i wouldnt still play games, i love video games (that sounds super nerdy) but me and my families nessecities come first before i ever think of playing vidoes games int those conditions you mentioned.

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#43 dracosummoner
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Best bet would be to get a friend who travels a lot to buy games for you in different countries I suppose.mark1982
Remember that consoles and games have region locks.
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#44 xL33TxTALENTx
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I go back to pc's for sure
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#45 deactivated-5e90a3763ea91
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I think emulation would become the modern-day equivalent of moonshine during the Prohibition.

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#46 androflash
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If by gaming you mean playing tetris on a first-gen game boy, yes..

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#47 JuarN18
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800 $ for an xbox 360?? that's a rip-off!! In my country the new games cost 80$ :?

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#48 paulokoenigkam
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[QUOTE="paulokoenigkam"][QUOTE="ROBBYBEAR1985"] My guess is, please do not be offended, that you are apart of Brazil's upper class? Do you plan on getting the UFC game? lolsourcerah
Nope, I worked for months and sold my ps2 to buy one. I'm a student and live with my parents so I don't have much to spend my money with things other than a date, or something I may occasionaly need, so my money was mostly for gaming. If I remember correctly, took me almost a year to pay it.

You may not be rich but your family has more money than most. I see Call of Duty, Resident 5, Left 4 Dead, and Gears 2... There's a lot of people I I know that can only afford a few games a year. You just bought 2 new games in less than 5 months. If the prices are how you say, you are at the very least in the upper middle class. Everybody else said they wouldn't be gaming, you're the only one who would. I know I definitely would not be...

Most of my games are used and stuff, so I get them cheaper :p

But now I'll stay for a few months without buying anything because of the world wide bad economy... (gotta get a new job damn it)

And yep, I guess I'm middle high class :p

Also thanks for backing me up, I speak English well enough but I've never seen anyone write money that way... before the comma, dollars. After comma, cents.

If I were to write eighty thousand dollars, I'd write 80 000,00 or 80.000,00 or simply 80000,00

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#49 fracot
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If you live in brazil...isn't that the place with the biggest pirate industry? Apparently like 90% of the cds, dvds and games are pirated and cheap...

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#50 paulokoenigkam
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If you live in brazil...isn't that the place with the biggest pirate industry? Apparently like 90% of the cds, dvds and games are pirated and cheap...

fracot
Does it make sense to you why they pirate? :p There are countries with bigger pirate industry though... :p