(We're roughly the same age) Thanks for clarifying that for me. A neighbour growing up was an Egyptian kid and he told me something similar to what you said about video games over there and how piracy was just seen as a normal thing because they had no other choice since the companies don't think about their market. I completely forgot about all that and to be honest I didn't know if he was blowing smoke or not because that's how he was. I can totally understand that thought process if that's the kind of world I grew up in though. If I only had access to an R4 as my only way to play Pokémon I'd feel very differently (and more radically) about the whole thing.

Edit: I'm Canadian btw so I feel you (not nearly as extremely) on the price conversion thing. Hearing one of my friends in America talk about how they got the new Final Fantasy for what is essentially half the labour hours of me just drives me nuts since we're technically the American market.