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From: logan@netxcom.netx.com (Jim Logan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Psygnosis Missed the Point!
Message-ID: <452@netxcom.netx.com>
Date: 11 Jun 91 18:54:45 GMT
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In article <16793@darkstar.ucsc.edu> mcgowen@saturn.ucsc.edu
(Richard McGowen) writes:
# >ATTENTION ALL GAME MANUFACTURERS!!!
# >
# >I REFUSE TO BUY ANY GAME THAT WILL NOT RUN FROM MY HARD DISK!
# >
# >I am boycotting ALL games that do not meet my standards.
# >
# 
# If I can't win, I take my ball go home. :(

You missed the point.  Game manufacturers need people to buy
their games, and they need to listen to what people want.  If I
don't voice my opinion and I want to buy games, I will have to
live with playing games from my slow floppy disk.

To "take my ball [and] go home" is a selfish thing for a child to
do, and it is an inaccurate analogy.   These game manufacturers
are not playmates -- they are only in it for the money.  I'm
telling them that through cooperation they can get MORE of my
money without opening themselves up to piracy.

It is frustrating to spend almost $10k on a high-end computer to
find out that game manufacturers limit the enjoyability of the
game by making it run through slowed-down floppy disk access.  To
my knowledge, they do not do this on any other platform but
Amiga.  I will not support a software company with my hard earned
cash that dicks me over like that.

The only reason they do it is only for copy protection purposes
and if I tell them that they won't be able to sell games to me
because of this, they will consider alternative copy-protection
(like code-wheels).  

I am stuck with $100 worth of games that are unplayable.  Take
"Shadow of the Beast II" for instance.  That game has beautiful
graphics and sound, but horrible playability.  I have to wait for
almost a full minute to try again when my character dies and
there's no reason for that when I have a hard disk.  I do not
want to be stuck with any more games that I cannot return to the
store!  They are too expensive to "go out on a limb" for,
therefore I will not take any more chances with floppy-based
games.  

(Sorry to single your game out as an example, Psygnosis, I think
you are an EXCELLENT game manufacturer with only one annoying
flaw!)  

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