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Would you leave your country..for video games?

I just moved to Japan specifically to play Gundam EXVS Full Boost and Jubeat and Sound Voltex. Good decision IMO.
 
Yeah, everyone needs something to live for right? its my hobby, my future, what I study, what I want to do with my life. Fuck everything else ill find a way to make it work.
 
Skyzard said:
I wonder what steam sale prices are like in Brazil.
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Not that diferent from non steam sales..just look at http://www.steamprices.com/

Most are
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But sometimes you find something like
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Jupp said:
It's around 650-700$USD actually, if you use the real convertion rate :P

I had consoles and games with prices very similar to USA in my home country, here in Argentina we have super taxed prices but I would never move back to my home country after seeing how good Argentina is doing in comparison in socio-economic terms

There are much more positives things involved, and videogames prices aren't a big deal.
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$650 if you pay with blue dollar, official dollar goes higher than that.

As for me, glad i've got my italian citizenship and passport a few years ago, once i conclude my studies i'll be moving out.
I think i've had enough of this cesspool of a country filled with corrupt rats. Peronism will be the cancer of this country for many years to come.
I don't see what positives things this country has. As long as we have brainwashed idiots voting for the same corrupt politicians, things will never change.

Of all the countries my italian and german ancestors could have chosen to come, they picked the worst.
And no, i don't like my country, i'm not proud of it and i'm ashamed to be argentine.
 
If that were to happen, I would be able to play my old games and PC (Steam). But that wouldn't be enough for me honestly. Gaming is a hobby but it is a huge part of my life. Plus I want to work in the gaming industry. There wouldn't be a gaming industry in the U.S. in this scenario.

So I'd probably move to Japan. It would be a nice change actually. The culture, the food, the people, it would all be new to me. And I would love working in the game industry in Japan because well, I love Japanese developed games. The vast majority of my favourite games are from Japanese developers.

There would be so much I'd have to learn about Japan but it would be a great experience. I guess there are other options like Canada but if I had the resources, I'd definitely move to Japan.
 
This is an interesting concept, but I think the Internet has greatly diminished the amount of government control on news/books/entertainment. It's just harder to brainwash the people anymore - see the Middle East uprisings, etc. On topic, no, unless I lived in North Korea.
 
That would add another negative to my country, sure, but there are still a lot more positives than negatives for me, so I'd stay put.
 
ChitoCrisis said:
If that were to happen, I would be able to play my old games and PC (Steam). But that wouldn't be enough for me honestly. Gaming is a hobby but it is a huge part of my life. Plus I want to work in the gaming industry. There wouldn't be a gaming industry in the U.S. in this scenario.

So I'd probably move to Japan. It would be a nice change actually. The culture, the food, the people, it would all be new to me. And I would love working in the game industry in Japan because well, I love Japanese developed games. The vast majority of my favourite games are from Japanese developers.

There would be so much I'd have to learn about Japan but it would be a great experience. I guess there are other options like Canada but if I had the resources, I'd definitely move to Japan.
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What's stopping you from moving to Japan now? Sounds like you'd really love it
 
I won't leave my country for games if that you mentioned in the OP ever happened though it might be a good reason to contact friends overseas to send me stuff :P
 
Sub_Level said:
More like stay in the US and learn glorious nippongo language.
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but you said language twice :l

I think the correct decision would be to leave. Either there's been some sort of moral ban or the economy is in the crapper. I think it would be unlikely that video-gaming alone could be so negatively affected. There would always be some sort of an effect on the rest of your life in that country beyond just the video games.
 
Chances are, if your freedoms are infringed upon to the point where you don't feel comfortable living there anymore, then absolutely, look at your options and talk it over with your family. Just for games? Probably no. But in certain places there is a lot more to the story than just games. It's just the only way it's affected your life at this time. It's a huge decision, thats for sure.
 
I would leave my country (America) to go to Canada, because I just love Canada more than the USA these days.....but for a video game? No.
 
ChapaNDJ said:
$650 if you pay with blue dollar, official dollar goes higher than that.

As for me, glad i've got my italian citizenship and passport a few years ago, once i conclude my studies i'll be moving out.
I think i've had enough of this cesspool of a country filled with corrupt rats. Peronism will be the cancer of this country for many years to come.
I don't see what positives things this country has. As long as we have brainwashed idiots voting for the same corrupt politicians, things will never change.

Of all the countries my italian and german ancestors could have chosen to come, they picked the worst.
And no, i don't like my country, i'm not proud of it and i'm ashamed to be argentine.
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Yeah, I'm using blue dollars.

Yes, the biggest problem in Argentina is the politician class. The country needs a huge event or something to happen to improve that, like Chile did after the Pinochet era.

But the country is much better than the rest of Latin American countries, I guess you've never been in México, Central America, Venezuela, Ecuador, etc :P they're 1000000x times worse.

Of course you're far away from Europe-quality of life, but it's still a pretty good place to live.

That said, I would rather move to Germany :p I imagine Italy to be not much different to Argentina in politics and progress.
 
If I lived in Australia yea I would leave for video games. The censorship there just seems ridiculous when it comes to video games.

But no I wouldn't leave the U.S. for games, not seeing a situation where I would need to.
 
whyreggielie said:
If I lived in Australia yea I would leave for video games. The censorship there just seems ridiculous when it comes to video games.

But no I wouldn't leave the U.S. for games, not seeing a situation where I would need to.
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The point is that you would be in that situation.
 
Jupp said:
I would rather move to Germany
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Only if you like your games censored - I can't download Dead Island via Steam because it's seized in Germany and in order to play TF2 without censorship (in Germany you can only play TF2 with sillygibs) I had to buy an english Orange Box CD key and had to ask the Steam Support to delete my german HL2 collection first.
 
84 responses, and this hasn't come up?
A country in which video games are illegal? Why on earth would I live there?

Anyway, it would totally depend on everything else going on in the country.
Standard of living, freedoms, other recreational pastimes that are legal, etc.
Gaming is great, but there are better things out there in the world.
 
I live in Brazil, so... yeah. I wouldn't leave ONLY because games, but if I got the opportunity to live legally in another country, yeah, I would be very tempted. There's a lot of things wrong with this country, not only video games.
 
Tiu Neo said:
I live in Brazil, so... yeah. I wouldn't leave ONLY because games, but if I got the opportunity to live legally in another country, yeah, I would be very tempted. There's a lot of things wrong with this country, not only video games.
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This is how I would feel. Video games are one minor issue, but making video games illegal or impractical to play could be indicative of other more serious problems in the country. And if there are those other issues, then those may be more of a reason to actually try and leave.

But if it's just that video games are banned and nothing else is wrong? Then no, I wouldn't leave my family and friends and job just for that. Not at all.
 
Captain Tuttle said:
What's stopping you from moving to Japan now? Sounds like you'd really love it
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Like thetrin said, money and working visa. Plus I need to learn the language. I took a class last year but I had a difficult time learning. It didn't help that I wasn't studying as much and I wasn't getting enough sleep because I wake up at 3 am for work. I had to drop the class unfortunately. I'm not giving up though.
 
What's the taxation on PC components in Brazil? It seems to me that console gaming specifically would be the issue here.

I think countries like this where it's difficult to get consoles and console games for a decent price but easier to put together a PC, just become more of a PC gaming nation.

Then with emulation you can enjoy the exclusive console games....eventually (like 2 generations later). Though I'm not sure how gnarly PS3 will be to emulate. That one will take a long while.
 
Not for games, but I would leave Brazil as soon I received a citizen visa from any of many countries, there are too many wrong things here, games is the last thing I should worry, games are optional you know.
 
I would
(but for more reasons than just videogames)
, government goes apeshit crazy blaming everything on video games. Recent discussion - ban every game that has age requirement of 12+, since parents ignore ratings and buy games for children anyway knowing they are not suitable. Also console games prices are insane, ~65EUR if you convert currencies.

They made own rating system, even though it's more forgiving than PEGI (some titles that are 18 in PEGI are 16+ in RAR), so it doesn't really make sense to drop PEGI for own rating which is more forgiving and few months after try to push a law to ban all videogames that are not suitable for children. Recent victim of this whole situation - Wolf Among Us, won't be released on consoles at all.

I am talking about Russia by the way. And technically I study in China last 4 years, believe it or not, but I think China is much more open and liberal in lot of areas compared to Russia. I don't know, maybe that's because I am in Shanghai and it might be different from province to province since province government have huge influence on local policies, but still.
 
Nah, anymore I just use online gaming as a way to hang out with friends who I don't get to see as often now that we live a couple hours away from each other, are getting married, having kids, and basically have no free time. It's the most practical way for us to all do something fun and catch up with each other so moving out of the country for something as trivial as gaming would just make it even more difficult to see them.
 
Pizarro said:
lmao get real.

To answer the OP's question: no.
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Why? Seriously, why should i be proud to live here?. I feel ashamed and i have to carry with this burden for the rest of my life.

If there's a next life, here i'm hoping to be born in the US, UK, Germany, Norway, Switzerland or anywhere civilized and around well educated people who share the same values and morals, and believe in respect and good manners. That's all i want.
 
I'd probably want to move from a country that would do something like that, not just because of video games, but because I wouldn't want to live where something like that could happen.
 
Already left my country once, if things got serious (and a fucked up scenario where access to video games becomes limited to the point of complete unavailability) would be a strong incentive to emigrate once more.
 
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