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From: RIDOUT@uservx.afwl.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Run (don't walk) to your store.  Lemmings has been released.
Message-ID: <20242@uservx.afwl.af.mil>
Date: 26 Feb 91 15:31:57 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> <5215@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <19228@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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> 
>      Second, no analogy to the current PC market is valid.  With 20+ million
> MSDOS platforms out there, any PC product can afford dramatically higher
> piracy rates and still sell more pieces of software than there are Amiga 
> computers.  Back when the PC market was around 2 million, software 
> (including lotus, wordperfect and games) was copy-protected anyway.
> 
>      In conclusion, software companies listen to the people that buy their
> software, not the ones that would "if..."  The surest way to convince a 
> manufacturer to leave the market is to stop buying its product, especially
> since all these companies can sell ten times more product in their MSDOS
> lines.  You will miss out on a great game for the Amiga by not buying 
> Lemmings, and your attitude will certainly not improve the situation for
> anyone in the Amiga Community.
> 
> 	John Kominetz
> 
> disclaimer:  These are my opinions and may not reflect those of Commodore.
That is all well and good but how can I enjoy the game if I cant get through
the copy protection.
Example I just bought f/16 Combat pilot because of the talk on the net.  I
got it home and found that I cannot make a copy.  Ok that's fine I have a
couple of games like that none have ever gone bad and you dont write to it.
I start it up and it asks me for a word form a paragraf from a page in the
manual.  Now I'm mad I can make a copy but a manual lookup besides?  and what
is the definition of a paragraph to these people.  It takes me three tries to
get through.  I am finaly in and I try to fly around.  The controls suck the
graphics suck, oh well whatever, I can still have fun I did not pay much.  So
now I make a named pilot to play with so I put my blank disk into df1:.  But
nooooooooooo!!! I requires it in df0: now I have to switch disks.  Will I
wont buy anything like this again.  There's too many other good things to buy I
don't have to waste my money.

Brian
 
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