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From: liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: I'm BLOODY PISSED! (WAS: Re: Shadow of the Beast)
Keywords: GAME, Beast, Shadow Of!
Message-ID: <3D|WY%@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 89 02:45:14 GMT
References: <18745@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1989Nov29.120247.10338@gdt.bath.ac.uk> <1989Dec4.012147.20343@uunet!unhd> <19038@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato)
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Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey, California
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rsingh1@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Paul Anton Sop) writes:

>Come on you psygnosis pig heads.  Use your minds.  Think a bit.  Try testing
>your software on other amiga's and configurations.  Then, atleast say SOMEWHERE
>on/in/around/near the package that it won't work on certain systems.
> 
>Sounds REASONABLE eh?  (After I burn 38bucks plus outrageous canadian taxes)
> 

Agreed!  This is the most unstable game I've ever seen.  I can't even get mine
to boot on stock Amigas.  I sent the disks back but I don't expect to see 
anything returned.  I already have a well worded reply to the programmers' note
in the manual threatening that this is the last game they will do unless Amiga
(and ST) piracy stops.  As far as I can see, they (actually Psygnosis) are the
pirates.  They stole my thirty five bucks!  The fact that the word Psygnosis is
a game may end up hurting it more than any piracy since most people won't by it
in the first place no matter how good it may be.  I never thought I'd long for
the days of "look up word" copy protection.  Rather than us and like minded 
others using up more space in c.s.a I urge anyone who wishes please send me a
note which I will forward with mine to Psynosis.  Send me a note even if its 
unreasoned and frothing.  The irony is that it is going to be cracked in about
a month.  The ones who suffer are the legitimate puchasers.  Let's have games
that are affordable and whose success on the market is based on how good they
are.  I actually don't mind some of the mild copy protection that is out there,
especially as the Amiga increases its unsophisticated mass-market base.  


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Jimmy Liberato   ...!amdahl!drivax!liberato