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From: brian@sky.COM (Brian Pelletier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: FAUG demo of Powermonger by E.A. -- long review
Summary: More letter writing...
Keywords: simply incredible
Message-ID: <755@sky.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 90 15:15:22 GMT
References: <1950@unlisys.in-berlin.de> <1990Dec5.110344.6364@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <5045@bwdls58.UUCP> <1990Dec6.035355.23149@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Reply-To: brian@sky.COM (Brian Pelletier)
Organization: SKY Computers, Chelmsford MA
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In article <1990Dec6.035355.23149@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:

	[Lots of details on how Powermonger nukes the OS]

>A letter to EA conveying your concern would not be at all out of place.
>I get the feeling, for all the bitching that all of us do here about
>games, that sending a well composed, polite letter laying out the terms
>under which you will be willing to buy their games to various game
>manufacturers will do 100 times as much good.  Modulo the occasional kid
>who bought his/her Amiga as a Nintendo clone, you're preaching to the
>choir here.
>
Amen! :-)  I heartily agree that most of us will fire off a letter to a 
software company only if we are extremely unhappy/pleased with a particular
product. I'm going to try to be a lot more aggressive in this regard from 
now on.  Hell, I've shelled out enough bucks for games and the like; why 
shouldn't I let the companies know what I like/dislike about them?  Issues
like copy protection , HD installability, and platform compatibility are
important to me, and should be important to anyone (with the exception of
the Nintendo clone mentality folks). A few well-written letters will go 
a long way. 
 
	[Comment about not sending letters to software companies]

Guilty as charged.  I have at least two letters to write this weekend, and
could probably fire off a half-dozen with a little patience.  Not all of these
will voice complaints either; Interplay will probably get a nice letter
from me about Dragon Wars.  

>Kent, the man from xanth.
><xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>

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