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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Game Updates (was Re: Falcon
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Date: 9 Jan 89 04:50:49 GMT
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In article <84406@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>Interesting, Jet of course doesn't count (SubLOGIC) but Arkanoid would.
>How did you find out about this? Since I am a "registered" owner of 
>Arkanoid I would think they would send me a note but you never know. 
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>How can you tell which is which?

Well, after 3 years as part of the Amiga developer community, I can safely say
that in 99% of the cases sending in the registration is 50% of the job of
getting (free or for-a-fee) updates.  The next 50% involves calling the
company and ASKING for the update.  At this point in time, Amiga companies 
simply cannot afford the extra expense of sending out notices of upgrades,
also given the fact that 50% of them come back as "addresse no longer at this
address".  Most of them, though, will offer the upgrade for free, just for the
asking.  Among the majors I can list WordPerfect (I got 4 free updates to
WP), EA (I got an upgrade for Dpaint II), OXXI (they freely upgraded me 
MaxiPlan several times). When we were in the publishing business, we did 
the same.  It is just numbers (i.e. $$).  Actually the only upgrade notice 
I received was from Lattice for their C compiler.  This also happened to me
when I was working for PC DOS machines.  In that market, the number of upgrade
notices is a little higher, but not that much.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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