Hello Tlaero.
With all due respect, you are doing the same mistake many people do. Stealing does not equal piracy.
Somebody /let say Peter/ steals my car: He gains the car, I loose the car. I dont really care if Peter has a car, I care that I bought a car and now I dont have it. The thing that is lost is the actual object (in this case, car).
Somebody /let say me/ pirates your game: I gain game, you dont loose the game. You prolly dont care if I have the game - you care if I bought your game. The thing that is lost is profit (money you would normally do via me buying your game).
I.E. Stealing - I am loosing the actual object and thus, I cant use it anymore. Piracy - You are loosing profit, but you can still have and can use the product itself.
That is actually a big difference.
Quote: "If you went to a farm and asked to buy some fresh produce, and the farmer said, "We don't sell to Eastern Europeans," you'd feel justified in coming back that night at taking his lettuce."
1. That farmer is a very bad buisnessman.
2. That farmer is racist. I consider that worse then theft or piracy. (And I am white male from the upper class).
3. In terms of stealing, yes, taking his product against his will would be a crime, I agree.
4. In terms of piracy, no, he is not giving me chance to pay him - I.E. He cant make profit from me, I.E. He is not loosing anything by me pirating it. So, no harm done.
If you dont allow me to buy your game via ANY at least a little reasonable legal way, you CANNOT make any profit from me. Currently, the only way how can I legally buy some products is by buying in american store and then let them ship it to... no wait. I cannot legally do that. I have to use fake ID (adress, mail, actually once, I had to input VISA code from a card, that was NOT fabricated in Europe. Like... REALLLYY? You really dont want my money so bad?) .... ..... ...... (not sure if that is ilegal, but it is definitely beyond reasonable).
After I finished reading those many and many problems you described involved in the process of allowing the game to be available in some country.... I must say I value Leonizer effort even more now. Such a hard labor he must have done to allow even me pay for his premium content.
Thank You Leo! But who I admire even more is Gabe Newell (you definitely know him, he runs Valve and Steam, which makes his products available even in my country. Hell, he must have done so much hard labor, right?
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) For those who dont know Gabe - He is a game maker/producer like Tlaero. To quote him: " Piracy was never one of our your top ten issues." or my favorite: "Piracy is a result of bad service."
I will not post another link (no more Oreo! :-) ), but if you want to see interwiev with him, open youtube and type in: Gabe Newell Piracy.
So in the end... It is obviously possible to distribute games in my country in universal format (Steam, Lesson of Passion), and it is prolly not really expensive (Unless Leo is a multimillionare). With all due respect (As I love your Christine game) either do the same thing they did, or at least have the decency not to accuse me of crime. If you decide its not worth it to you to try make a profit from me... then by pirating, I am not harming you. You decided that you cannot make that profit.