[MUD-Dev] Re: [pol-core-test] Re: New file uploaded to pol-core-test (OT)

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On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Jeff Freeman wrote:

> Oroborous (www.geocities.com/darkageuo) wrote:

>> Brazil has a great amount of FreeShard players, probably 20x bigger
>> than the number of OSI players. OSI doesn't support UO here, it
>> isn't even sold here, and we have to pay 60 US$ to have an original
>> version of it. Although 90% of all brazilian players have warez/iso
>> versions of it hehe. Our ping on north american shards average
>> 450ms, so most people will just play on local, FreeShards. This
>> great amount of players encourages local companies to sponsor
>> people developing new Shards.

> Well, I don't buy the "20x bigger than the number of OSI players"
> but maybe he meant 20x the number of people playing "free shards" in
> Brazil, versus the number playing in the US.
 
> Anyway, my question is, what's the matter with Brazil?  They have
> squirrely copyright laws or is it just a matter of there not being
> enough players there to justify launching a Brazilian shard?
 
> 1,400 people signing up for the beta test on one of an apparently
> huge number of shards seems pretty significant.

Brazil is currently doesn't have a particularly large internet-using
population. It's currently about 10 million, compared to 137 million
in the States. Even Italy is bigger than Brazil right now, with a bit
under 12 million.

--matt

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