Re: Buying RPG games from U.S.

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:26:52 -0000, "AMO" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>Been trying to locate Planescape from Ebay.
>
>Seems like I get a better deal from the U.S.
>
>As far as I can tell there's no reason not to buy PC games from other
>countries - there's nothing that will stop them running on my computer is
>there?

Nope, although you may get hit up for import duty by the post office
when it's delivered (I end up having to pay duty on about 1/3 of my US
purchases, although have never had to pay on Canadian purchases).

When you are getting patches for games take care if they different US
and Euro patches for instance.
>
>I know DVDs have region encoding. I assume that Planescape does not come on
>DVD?

I haven't seen a DVD game that uses region encoding yet :)

Planescape will be on CD (it was originally released back in 2000 I
think, very few DVD games back then ?)
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