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Article #76454Re: Get free full versions of PC games!!!
From: sjp
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 00:00
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Your argument doesn't hold water! You state that it costs more in disk space than to buy the game. Most gamers I know only have the game for a couple of months, then get another one. All of a sudden the economics is working for you! Thomas Rush <Thomas=Rush%Prod=Mkt%NA=H...@netgate.compaq.com> wrote in article <01bccd1a$2cc84f20$3647...@trush.wins.compaq.com>... > > TimeKillr <time...@hotmail.com> wrote in article > <60moqe$ivd$1...@walton.videotron.net>... > > >Actually, it is pretty funny, but piracy is extremely expensive--in many > > >way more expensive than buying the actual software. If you consider that > > >the really hardcore WaReZ traders usually have dual-channel ISDN, a > CD-ROM > > >burner and 8 gigs of hard drive space, these costs add up. Even a > > >small-timer that just grabs stuff off hotline sites will spend more > money > > >on online time and disk space than they would have on games. Putting > > >WarCraft II on my hard drive takes up $60 worth of space in cost per > > >megabyte, VS. $40 for the game itself--and this gets even worse with > > >video-intensive games like Wing IV and C & C. I finally talked a friend
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From: "sjp" <sjpa...@directnet.ab.ca> Subject: Re: Get free full versions of PC games!!! Date: 1997/09/30 Message-ID: <60r4ur$5ll@nr1.calgary.istar.net> X-Deja-AN: 276849383 References: <01bcca07$7c0c6460$e51b7e82@dialup.cso.uiuc.edu> <01bcca07$c0d1fba0$1ef445cf@nealw> <34448505.5299535@news.erols.com> <eilersm-2809971429340001@phx-1-39.psn.net> <60moqe$ivd$1@walton.videotron.net> <01bccd1a$2cc84f20$36471cac@trush.wins.compaq.com> Organization: iSTAR internet Incorporated Newsgroups: alt.games.command-n-conq,alt.games.descent,alt.games.marathon,alt.games.mk,alt.games.quake,alt.games.sf2,alt.games.video.classic,aus.games,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ib MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit