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Originally Posted by questate
Jeez, thats horrible!!! I thought such type of 'loot' only happened in here, the whole system has become 1 big proxy mafia  |
I actually made it seem a little worse than it seems, but yes it is quite bad in fact. Nobody know for sure if the guy from the entity called IGAC really is an admin for Ecoplay, one of the main distributors over here. I heard this from a reliable source though.
Microsoft does something even worse. Lately, they open the games and place the stamp not on the box but on the front cover, directly on the paper insert. In Halo Anniversary, they ruined the beautiful slipcase by placing the stamp directly above the slipcase, partially hiding the Masterchief.
So, basically, even when you find yourself a good deal in this country, you always have to live with this drama most of the times. The IGAC Drama.
IGAC means Inspecção Geral das Actividades Culturais. In english, it should be something like Cultural Activities General Inspection if my translation is accurate (CAGI to make it short).
Only a few distributors do a good work. One I recall is Sony itself, lately they have released all games factory seal if I remember. Namco Bandai too.
... so sad I can't do much to make this change and nearly no one listens to me. But most collectors in Portugal have pretty low standards. Even if they don't have much money, they still don't care much. That stamp is mandatorey, regular costumers know they need it for warranty purposes, so people are getting used to buy games with the stamp. It's even illegal to sell games and software without it. Even demo discs in cereal boxes must have that...