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I think that Starcraft had an excellent feature.
The game was all on one cd but you could make a "spawn installation" on any
other computer if you wanted to meet them. So, with the spawn installation,
you could only join a hosted game on a LAN.
Nice idea I think...
/Nisse


"HeXetic" <hexemail@hottic.com> wrote in message
news:t0c3b.11318$Cg2.866718@news20.bellglobal.com...
> "Peter Connolly" <pete_c@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.19b748193bf2dea5989680@news.individual.net...
> > In article <ya73b.10377$Cg2.803825@news20.bellglobal.com>,
> > hexemail@hottic.com says...
> >
> > Hi Tim
> >
> > Thanks for the reply, I was hoping that C&C:Generals would be a 2
> > gameplay edition.  Looks like I'll have to save a bit more - if I got
> > one copy and the missus couldn't join in, there'd be big trouble!
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Pete
>
> Yeah, it is a bit of a bother. Most of the EA-haters (people who think C&C
> is all downhill since EA bought out Westwood studios) see it as a
> money-grabbing policy. On the other hand, the game itself takes up two CDs
> so presumably to bundle two playable versions they would need to bundle 4
> CDs or package 3 CDs with one CD an "install" CD and the other two "play"
> CDs - a complicated and probably expensive setup. I guess Generals also
> doesn't obey the traditional idiom of there only being two sides and
hence,
> two CDs. Nor does it have full-motion video briefings, which are so big as
> to necessitate one CD for each side.
>
> --
> Tim "HeXetic" G.
> www.planetcnc.com
>
>