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From: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Run (don't walk) to your store.  Lemmings has been released.
Message-ID: <5215@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 91 20:04:58 GMT
References: <1991Feb18.051008.11300@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <52197@cornell.UUCP> <2323@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> <1991Feb20.064217.26621@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
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In article <1991Feb20.064217.26621@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) writes:
}> P.S. In case you're wondering PC Lemmings is HD installable, but
}> requires a key disk, again                                      
}> to prevent pirates.
}
}That, my friend, is the straw that broke the... (and boy does it piss
}me off.  And will it ever get me started...)
}
}I was going to buy Lemmings, but when I read crap like this it
}makes me wonder.  The PC version is HD installable, but the
}Amiga version is not - what a load of crap!
}
}Hell, I'll go one step farther, it sounds like Lemmings is the
}type of game that could multitask...  Does it?  No, because I don't
}think you guys would know how to make a game that would!  You are
}just backwards programmers that only know how to throw away the OS
}and talk directly to the hardware...  What a pathetic bunch...
}I challenge DMA design to make a game, like Lemmings, that multitasks
}properly on the Amiga, I don't think you can.
}
}For christ's sake, the damn game has already been broken and has been
}on pirate BBS's for three weeks (PC and Amiga version).  When you
}piss off the people who do buy your games (and I have bought quite
}a few of them...), they stop supporting you.  You have pissed me off.
}
}Don't you guys understand, the people who aren't going to pay
}for your product will find a way to crack it.  The people that
}will buy your product will (and will be more willing) if the
}product operates like they like.  Hell I've seen cracked versions
}of some floppy only games that were HD installable, it makes one
}want to just use the cracked version and say fuck the company
}that releases crap this is not HD installable in the first place.
}I truely hope this happens to Lemmings, it would serve you right!
}
}Loren J. Rittle
}I'm not going to buy Lemmings anymore.  As a matter of fact and 
}principle, I will not buy another Psygnosis title.  Not till Psygnosis
}starts making games that are HD installable.  Use a god damn look up the
}word in the manual, if you're that paranoid! (Starting to wish you had
}not ever posted a message in the first place?)


I'm afraid that I have to agree wth everything you've just said. I
don't think I will purchase it either. Good game or not. Perhaps when
it ends up in the bargin bin for $5.00 or so I'll consider it. I plan
to start boycotting game makers who do not support at LEAST HD
installability. I have enough things I can be using my Amiga for that
losing a few good games won't hamper the enjoyment of my machine. I
can always devote that time to working on bigger and better Imagine
Animations. (Hey! You can even put Imagine on a HD!) Could you imagine
the uproar that would be heard if Imagine was heavily protected? If
anything, business software and the like is probably pirated more
often than Games because folks are unwilling to fork out the large $$$
to get the good Business software. (Word Perfect has got to be one of
the most Office Pirated bits of software I have seen) Despite all
that, they rarely have any protection of any kind. The fact that they
haven't gone bellyup would seem to weaken the Game Maker's argument
that protection is vital and necessary.

					--Moriland


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