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in #gaming • 7 years ago

Man it sounds tough being a gamer in Libya, thank you for sharing and supporting the developers. It's true that Game developers only care about certain countries. This is a bad thing because there is a lot of opportunity they are missing out on. Great to see you developing games, we need more people like you making indie games. I hope that you get to make your success game. Steem on!

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    I feel that if Game Companies published their games in Libya.. they will earn from us more than they earn from other some Countries, but assuming 2 things:

    IF they make their games easily purchasable with LYD (Libyan Dinar as Cash)

    • Libya is a Cash Country.... People here never use Credit Cards. and only few have them.... most people who buy games don't have them.... If they made a way to say "Buying Steam Gift Cards" in Libyan Cash might solve part of the problem... but because of the second point, no one will buy Steam GC.

    IF they don't sell them in a price more than 30 LYD per Game (That's about $10 for a game that will sell normally at $40 in USA)

    • Most people here are experts in finding cracked games, even some 13 years old teens here are experts at finding a well working "Full Version Free" of the game that contains no viruses. and this is available for free on internet......
    • Now, If someone wants to buy $40 game legally they have to pay at least 120 LYD (when the market price of dollar is high they might need to pay 200 LYD). The monthly salary of normal people in Libya is only 800-1200 LYD. No one here will ever use %10 of their income on one game. (Unless it's the latest FIFA18 or PES18, It seels like crazy here, I've seen someone paying 400 LYD to get one football game for PS4 early... in the opinion of general public that person is either crazy or rich!! mostly the latter)
    • If the Company told us Libyans by itself to buy their products Legally. and offered us a price that we can afford... we will start buying them!! at least I will actively start to make people around me support that company that cares about us!!!

    Most people in the important age group (15-25 yrs old) in Libya have time for gaming in their daily or weekly life. Gaming Companies lose many potential sales by not caring about us.

    maybe I should expand on this and make it a full post.

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