Gus Fune

Glad to be part of the 6% share of the market.

Taxes are high too high in here, but another problem are titles that actually don't get released at all in here and piracy is the only choice. For over 2 years Rock Band haven't been on the store shelves and other games takes way too long to hit the shelves. I've bought pirated games myself but stopped it as it was damaging my console, got me banned from live and was also not being a cool thing with the developers I admire.

But the thing is, yes you can be part of the legal 6%, but it's TERRIBLY annoying to import a game from the US (mainly thru ebay), wait weeks to arrive and pay other 60% tax fee because it's an 'imported good'.

40% on taxes is way too much, but we believe that with Meebo launch (a national videogame with 3G and some stuff that I'd like to see on Xbox/Wii/PS3), the government might start giving more attention to gaming and start diminishing painful taxes.

R$ 220 on a game is way too much! (that's around 100 US Dollars, yes, it's almost the DOUBLE price games are in the USA).

And you know what? My congratulations to Steam, XBLA, PSN and WiiWare, at least in those places I can buy legitimate games in here and not pay uber-painful taxes. :D