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Steal This Game (Ep. 1)

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Gaming Cafes in Asia - What Are They?

Western pricing for these discs made them unaffordable with the local buying power. You also had a phenomenon in Asia that you didn't really have in the United States, which was the concept of gaming cafes. So again, I think those cafes didn't solve the problem. But they were kind of a double-edged sword for the Western publishers. Because on the one hand, they were a little more legitimate than buying something out of the back of a pickup truck.

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