Game Valley : Pirates 'R' us !

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Submitted by whirlpool on Mon, 28/03/2005 - 6:48pm.
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It seems that the doesn't really care about piracy. They only care about a small number of products. And those products seems to mainly originate from one company. You all know ? right ? gamevalley store front Anyways, GameValley sells the latest , Playstation 2 and PC games for fraction of its real cost in nice packages that looks as if authentic. A PS2 DVD Game costs 50 EGP (less than 10 USD)!! games I wonder when will Shortet El Mosanafat wake up and starts cracking down on those guys. I am sure some of you know more about this.

they do crack down

Submitted by Alaa on Mon, 28/03/2005 - 7:28pm.

not sure if they did anything to game valley before, probably not, but al mosanafat do go after smaller shops that sell these games from time to time.

cheers,
Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net "i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"

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this store

Submitted by whirlpool on Mon, 28/03/2005 - 7:33pm.

is open since 1990 and doesn't sell anything except pirated crap.. something fishy

Mostafa Hussein

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Crack On There CDs

Submitted by DarKnesS_WolF on Mon, 28/03/2005 - 8:43pm.

a friend of mine showed me a crack dir. in there Counter Strike 1.5 CD that have Half-Life 1 in the cd too .. it`s had a Key Genrator .. CS can`t be played Online Unless With a real CD Key that have an ID in Valve Servers ( back in old days befour steam buy the servers ) so it`s not orginal then !! and that cd was costing 85 EGP and he had to buy Half-Life game of the year i donn how much it`s costed but it`s the real orginal thing .. and he can play online with the serial that came out with the hf game of the year copy.. i donn why there is a key genrator in game valley cds if the games are really orginal ?

peace

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simply i do not have any lice

Submitted by Conceptor on Sun, 10/07/2005 - 12:10am.

simply i do not have any licenses of Micro$oft cause i am not using it's products anymore.

when i bought a laptop i was enforced to accept the fact ( i bought ms license)

if you want to give your people break and use pirated games ,you are breaking the law(means that you are hunted and you stool something)

Diaa Radwan

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you don't get the point

Submitted by whirlpool on Sun, 10/07/2005 - 12:58am.

For sure we would like to play games. For sure we would love if Egyptian kids would play games cheaply and affordably.

This is not the point of this post. It is to show people that the BSA which is trying to protect companies from losing money, is only protecting a few companies namely Microsoft and the other BSA members.

The BSA, lobbied so hard in poor and developing countries to fight software piracy. The BSA sat with leaders of nations and imposed amnesty to governements. They prosecute people and claim to be enforcing laws and protecting the software industry.

But they are not doing anything to prevent piracy of software other than their own. They are fighting piracy of the products of a few companies only. And the local police seems to care only for the BSA products.

May be people are sympathetic with GameValley. They probably leave kids entertained and happy with cheap games. However, this would be a shallow point of view.

  • What about other small companies that suffer from the harsh enforcement of BSA policies ? Why would Game Valley be exempt ?
  • Since the GameValley is contributing nothing to the game development why is it selling each game at a relatively expensive price tag. When probably the price of the DVD and packaging would not cost more than 20 EGP with even a profit margin.

Mostafa Hussein

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