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Article #26877Re: Boycott Red Alert 3
From: Margolis
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 06:00
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 06:00
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"satan" <vally1234@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:139ab587.0312281830.124f94e7@posting.google.com... > First of all you three imbecils will have to disclose your association > with Electronic Arts and GameSpy network if you want your comments to > have any credibility at all. > > Now, let Electronic Arts put another faulty product on the market, > because in Australia we have something called ACCC (Australian > Competition and Consumer Commision), because we can deal with > Electronic Arts in this way, it goes under faulty and unsatisfactory > products. > > My understanding is that Electronic Arts is already in the ACCC's > sights, this is what I was told. > > What are you three saying, that you did not have problems with > Generals and Zero Hour? Then this is an outright LIE, just look at the > number of patches released by Electronic Arts. > What are you saying that the game never slowed to less than a frame > per second, because if you do, then this is another LIE. > > Are you saying that after you quit the game does not leave "garbage" > in the memory, because if you do, then this is another LIE. > > Are you saying that the user interface is not crap, because if you do, > then is another LIE. > > Are you by any chanced suggesting that there are no problems with the > online game performance when Electronic Arts has acknowledged the fact > that due to poor development practices they did not take into account > the internet infrastructure, then again you three are telling LIES. > > Electronic Arts has added the "quickstart" option at the executable > due to the fact that individuals complained about it. > > There will be idiots that will buy the crap no matter what, but by far > the majority of individuals will display more common sense and > consider the recent performance of the products put on the market by > Electronic Arts and make an informed decision. > > As I have said, try before you buy, if does not have the online > capability in the trial version, dropped like a hot potato, because > the online version of the game is crap. > As I have said, if anywhere on the package is mentioned the word > GameSpy, again dropped like a hot potato, because the online > capabilities of the game are crap. > > If you have to go throught more than two screens to play any feature > of the game again, dropped like a hot potato, because they are using > flashy splash screens to cover up for the poor performance of the > product. > > the only lies here are the ones being spouted by trolls like you -- -- Margolis
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!internal1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newshosting.com!news-xfer1.atl.newshosting.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-05!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Margolis" <someone@somewhere.org> Newsgroups: alt.games.redalert2, alt.games.command.and.conquer, alt.games.redalert Subject: Re: Boycott Red Alert 3 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 00:00:31 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <vuvgpjp38nl5e2@corp.supernews.com> References: <139ab587.0312271758.88b9bfa@posting.google.com> <vutbj253rjdnd2@corp.supernews.com> <vutck3ptnmak93@corp.supernews.com> <139ab587.0312281830.124f94e7@posting.google.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 63 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit