Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!corton!mirsa!yeu.inria.fr!buffa From: buffa@yeu.inria.fr (Michel Buffa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Psygnosis Missed the Point! Message-ID: <11741@mirsa.inria.fr> Date: 11 Jun 91 12:33:31 GMT References: <6798@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun6.063912.23994@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <444@netxcom.netx.com> <16793@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: news@mirsa.inria.fr Reply-To: buffa@mirsa.inria.fr Organization: Inria Sofia Antipolis Lines: 92 Nntp-Posting-Host: yeu.inria.fr Well, somebody said something very important: We need more demos of games. If companies posted on BBS and distributed widely demos of a game they are going to sell, they would less suffer from piracy: -If the demo is really good, like the one we had for Lemmings, Turrican 1 & 2, Gods, a lot of people will buy the final game. I bought these games as soon as they became available. -If the demo is bad, nobody will buy the game, that explain why demos are so rare. People who spread demos of their games are very proud of what they are going to sell. people who make bad games, like US GOLD never distributed a preview or a demo of one of their games. -A lot of people try to get cracked copies to check the games before buying, especially when it's an unknown game, not written by famous people. Too much risks ! Who here has never been disapointed by a brand new game. I had such bad experience with Thunder Blade, F29 (buggy good flight sim, but buggy), Forgotten worlds... others... Well, so each time I have the opportunity to try a game (in a shop or an illegal copy), I do it. Look at all the games me and a friend bought this year: Game: Why I bought it ------- --------------- CADAVER: I love previous games by the Bitmap Brothers (Xenon 1 & 2, Speedball) Z-OUT: Written by Factor 5, authors of R-TYPE, marketed by Rainbow Arts, my favorite company for arcade games. TURRICAN 1: I played the demo and loved it. TURRICAN 2: I loved Turrican 1 BATTLE COMMAND: I loved Carrier Command which I bought a few years ago, written by the same persons F29: I read very good reviews, saw nice picture in magazines. First feeling: very good flight sim, finally: bad game because it has a lot of bugs, hasn't been tested. Never played it or a demo before buying. TEAM SUZUKI: We had a cracked copy we loved. POWERMONGER: We loved Populous + nice reviews in magazine. We were disappointed. Could not try it before playing M1 Tank Platoon: Had a cracked copy we loved. KICK-OFF 2: Loved the first one. Dragon Wars: Read good reviews, was at budget price. Good game. Lemmings: Loved the demo. Forgot others... Games I will buy as soon as they will be available: -------------------------------------------------- Birds Of Prey: the new flight sim by Jez San, author of Starglider 2 Deuteros: follow-up to Millenium 2.2 R-TYPE 2: this one, I will try before because it hasn't been written by factor 5, authors of R-TYPE 1 All Bitmap Brothers titles. CONCLUSION: ----------- If demos were available for each game on the market, people would never buy bad games, would never try to get cracked copies, would never been disappointed, piracy would be less important and disk protection would not be necessary no more. -- ------------------------------------------ Michel Buffa: Projet Robotvis, INRIA, France Internet: buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr Surface Mail: Michel BUFFA, INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, 2004, route des Lucioles, 06565 Valbonne Cedex -- FRANCE Voice phone: (33) 93.65.78.39, Fax: (33) 93 65 77 65 ------------------------------------------