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So I poked at a game, Section 8 I believe it was. This struck me as odd, but I assumed it was the local equivalent of putting empty game cases on shelves in the EU, taking the case to the desk, and the clerk would go and grab the actual thing from storage. Each section was large enough to just fit a discВ and had bits of paper with low-resolution game box art printed on them.

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Luckily, they understood English, and produced 7 massive binders, full of plastic sheathesВ divided into four sections each. Behind them was an open door where a third was seemingly repairing a console - in reality, the Xbox was being chipped - and I told them I wanted to buy a game.

I walk up to the desk, where two guys were hunched over a computer. No game cases were present in any shape or form. Two walls were lined with shelves behind glass windows, which displayed a variety of physical games related merch - cases, statues, figures, keychains - wider than any European store could muster, and oddly enough, all of these were legitimate. There are pieces of dismantled consoles all over the place. The small store was dimly lit, and at first you'd think you're in a hardware store or a repair shop. Now, going into a gaming store in Shanghai is much different than, say, the US or most European countries. Now, I know from experience that there are plenty of legitimate game stores in Shanghai which look the part, but those exclusively sell console games. Simply to experience what gaming is like in such a country, I tried out doing things 'the local way', meaning checking out the bootleg scene. If I wanted to play, I just used a VPN.Д«ut these measures just weren't convenient or possible for some people, say, locals. True enough, upon trying to play back in Shanghai, I was greeted with a message saying the game is region locked to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore.ДЄs someone who staunchly opposes piracy, I restricted game purchases to whenever I was home in Europe since I knew my time in China would only last 3 years, so stocking up on region-locked games wasn't financially viable. As a test, I purchased Fallout: New Vegas on the same account while in Hong Kong, and installed it. Sure, the Steam could be used (I'm quite surprised it wasn't banned), however pretty much everything bought would be locked not even only to China, but mainland China. Importing from abroad was the only option, and even that wasn'tВ always an option due to laws which banned shipping from certain countries.

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While legitimate copies of console games could be found, though rare, there was quite literally no source of legitimate PC games.

I spent 3 years living in China, Shanghai specifically. Certain censorship laws and region locking make buying games legitimately and incredibly difficult endeavor. While for you and me, buying an official, legal copy of almost any game we can imagine through various digital distribution sites without even stand up from our comfy chairs, this isn't the case in some countries.

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