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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: FAUG demo of Powermonger by E.A. -- long review
Keywords: simply incredible
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Date: 15 Dec 90 17:51:04 GMT
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In <4274@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland) writes:
>	I agree. Your friend should not buy onions if they cause him
>discomfort. Doing so would be silly in the extreme. It was a nice
>parable and all, but let me point out this simple fact:
>
>At the same time that your friend did not buy onions because of thier
>effect on him, he also did not go around complaining about how much he
>loved onions, but couldn't eat them. 

Ahh, but that's just it.  He does grumble about it, because he really does like
them.

>Too many people on here who are annoyed by certain aspects of
>Powermonger are spending too much time complaining about it. If you
>don't like the game for that reason, then fine, speak your peace and
>then don't buy it. Please don't drone on and on about it forever
>though.

Are you perhaps mistaking dialog for 'dronng on and on'?

> Some of us would like to know what the game is like. I finally
>broke down and decided not to look for help on here on the matter and
>went to the store and played it. Then I bought it. I have been playing
>most of the time that I haven't been on the net. 
>
>Also let me say that Powermonger is software, not onions. Software
>with minor problems that for some folks prove unexcusable. Fine, don't
>buy it. The rest of us, those of us for whom onions have no negative
>effect on, will continue to enjoy it in your absence.

Yes, it's software, and it is indeed as valid for folks to post the negative
comments about it as it is for them to post positive comments about it. As a
case in point, let me mention the post that came through yesterday or today,
asking if Powermonger was HD installable, and if it multitasked. The poster
obviously missed the comments on Powermonger in the greater flurry of dialog
discussing whether the most important thing in a game was game play or other
factors. Since both these viewpoints constitute opinion only, they are valid
postings in their own right.

Kindly do the net the courtesy of allowing the expression of said pinions.

-larry

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