mrkgnao: But the problem is that in more than 40 years of Russian control, you GDRs didn't master the subtle art of video game piracy.
No piracy, no discount.
To be fair, video games for the general public appeared fairly late in that 40 years period. On the other hand, some other former eastern bloc countries acquired solid talents in video game piracy, and still don't get the Russian discount. imho, that discount is either :
a) [ paranoid FSB version] meant to help corrupting the soul of Mother Russia and weaken its youth with decadent western products....
b) [disanchanted capitalist version] meant to present shareholders growing sales in the BRIC markets, so as to justify growing management bonusses