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From: sapg0386@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: SimCity RipOff
Message-ID: <111900101@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 89 01:38:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!sapg0386    Nov 29 19:38:00 1989


I bought my mac + in september.  I have been writing programs in C and it
has been working fine.  This week I thought I would buy a game and play
a little.  So I went to my mall software outlet and bought simcity.

What a mistake.  I get it home and put it in the computer and all it can
do is ask me to insert the original simcity disk.  It can't tell that 
the original simcity disk is already in there.  Finally I dig out the 
system manual and get the disk ejected.  I put it back in and again
it says to insert the original simcity disk.  At least now it knows to 
eject it.  But you can go through this cycle n times where n is any
positive integer.  At 40 bucks I expect to get a little more than this.

I am going to see if I can get my money back.  But I think anyone that 
tries to sell this kind of crap (the developer and the retailer both)
should be legally barred from the software business.  No one would
tolerate this behavior in an appliance or a car or a house or just about
any other retail item.  A lot of kids are going to 
be disappointed on christmas morning.

So buyer beware, at least one company out there is charging big bucks
for nothing more than a diskette in a box.

Steve Pax
502 E. White St. #24
Champaign, Ill 61820