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From: mcgowen@saturn.ucsc.edu (Richard McGowen)
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Subject: Re: Psygnosis Missed the Point!
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Date: 7 Jun 91 19:11:02 GMT
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In article <1991Jun6.063912.23994@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan):

Usually write intelligent things concerning the amiga world.


However, He has forgotten one very important thing that makes life with so many
people in the world livable, COMPROMISE.  Although some of his complaints are
still valid, for psygnosis to go as far as they did is amazing.  For one thing,
most key-disk copy protection schemes I have seen on require you to insert the
key-disk once at the very start of the game.  This really can not be harder
on "one track of the floppy" than playing the whole game from a floppy.  
Secondly, if you ever had played a floppy based version of lemmings you would
know that the disk acess is LONG, especially on systems with less than 1 MEG.
In my opinion, I am much more concerned with floppy vs hard drive access times
than the time it takes to find one floppy amid 12 to 1000 floppies.  Finally,
we come back to COMPROMISE.  Psygnosis still does not want Joe Average to be
able to give their games (an investment of their money) to the kid next door,
down the street, and the one they met once at school who has the same kind of
computer.  On the other hand, most users that own a hard drive would love to 
be able to take advantage of the speed their hard drive gives them.  If you
are going to play a game for over an hour, what is so bad about spending the
first 1 minute finding the key disk and not having to later sit through 10 
minutes of floppy access.  Psygnosis came more than halfway, but yet you
still want to condemn them for not going as far as you wanted.  This
is the equivalent of you getting a speeding ticket and then yelling at the
officer for giving you one instead of the one he gave you that only had you
going 5 mph over the speed limit rather than the 50 mph per hour over the
speed limit you were actually going.  If someone is doing something that you
see as going in the right direction, you should encourage them, not condemn
them for not being all the way there.

--
Richard McGowen

"Men can't deal with commitment.  They're afraid they'll get married and then 
meet the woman of their dreams at the reception."   --Carrie Snow