Just as its difficult in the US for people to pack their things and head for North Dakota to work for companies exploiting the Bakken shale, many of the regions in Russia with the highest wages are extremely remote and difficult to get to (not to mention really cold in the winter).

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And as long as the technology works, game players don't really mind plunking down a couple hundred cold ones to get it.

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