Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: The Real Reason Why... (Was: Re: Psygnosis Missed the Point! Re: Psygnosis Missing The Boat? Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 91 03:36:54 GMT References: <1991Jun3.115402.22740@ssd.kodak.com> <6798@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun6.063912.23994@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG><4068@ux.acs.umn.edu> Organization: Life In Hell BBS, Sterling Heights, MI Lines: 54 mmoore@ux.acs.umn.edu (Malcolm Diallo Moore) writes: >Let's get to the real reason why Psygnosis continues to keep that strangle >hold on our disk drives. They're afraid of piracy, so much so that they >will lose their honest customers through their crappy copy protection. Hum, if someone coded the protection, someone can break it out... >Awesome (which I returned many many moons ago) refuses to work on my computer >because of the copy protection. And everyone knows how bad the drives gronk >when loading up the Killing Game Show. And this minor "victory" they call >themselves achieving is only put out by this "key disk" thing. I bought SimCity 1.1, oh geeze, a year ago or so, it had key disk protection on it, thing would bring down my BBS every 2 or 3 loads of the game, I guess because it didn't pass the key disk protection to its liking...My sister recently purchased a graphics disk for it, and it patched itself with manual protection. I love that manual protection, if it fails it doesn't bring down a multi-port system running UUCP and a possiable R/W error on the HD..Why can't others do this? SimCity really multi-tasks well...Have it running now actually...and as a rule, I don't play games...My sister does... I will avoid KeyDisk protection now that I know better...SimCity proved it was bad, and they fixed their mistake... >Now I ain't a pirate, but I know a few, and they are just like regular car >thieves. If they want it, they will have it unless you shoot them. Psygnosis >will come up with a new way to strain our drives to death, and some pirate wil >come along and pull some strings and bam-there goes another copy protection >scheme. Noone has built a better mousetrap yet on copy protection...If someone does, they wll be rich... >I say Psygnosis needs to quit fuckin around and get with the program, and star >worrying about their HONEST customers, which far outnumber their dishonest >ones. Before they go broke over this shit, like. What they need to do is to start direct marketing via BBS's...Then system operators will have an interest in preventing piracy, because it will be their bottom line...This would really flip pirates up side down...Software Companies could make crippled evaluation versions, that people can download to "try before they buy." It would probably drive down costs to the end user, no store front to pay for, direct marketing, lower advertising costs, etc...Let capitalism work for you...If the demo sucks, no one buys the game...I wonder if anyone is interested in trying this in a test market... Ron -- C-UseNet V0.42d Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) DISCLAIMER: I say what I mean, and mean what I say.