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sonof...@gmail.com wrote in
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> I strongly believe in the use of Usenet as a whistle blower for
> corporations that scam and offer defective  products. Some of you may
> know me, I've spent a great deal of my time in the 90's reviewing and
> testing games, and took up a job with a major game development studio
> ever since.

Which one? You don't seem familiar to me. I'm no big wig, but I like to 
think I read the credits in a lot of games, and while i'm not "in the 
industry" anymore, I still hang out at parties. Name one game that 
didn't ship with something that causes the game to crash (not an OS 
crash, I mean a game crash), and I'll find 2 crash bugs for ya.

> I believe that Gas Powered Games is ran by immature, unprofessional
> people who can't code.

Actually I believe that to be true, but they still manage to make good 
games. Proof positive that if you throw enough monkees [sic-op] at a 
game it'll all work out in the end.

> They are attempting to work together with Stardock.
> 
> Now, let me get this right.
> 
> Stardock. Gas Powered Games.
> 
> Space, Hot air. A hot air balloon in space. Obviously, you and I both
> know, it won't work.

Wow, so because the name of 2 companies won't work together, there's 
something wrong? Stardock has the best games ever, they don't support 
them because they don't have the budget, not everyone is Blizzard. If I 
wrote a game I wouldn't want to spend months fixing little problems 
unless I had too.

> Why not just merge North Korea with Iran.

Republican...

> Yet they still will profit off unsuspecting people, even though their
> games have multiple flaws.

All games do. Welcome to next gen, d00d.

> You're going to have to agree with me when I say, their are tiers of
> game development. You got the $10.00 games on the island at Best Buy,
> you got your $30.00 games that are glitched and poorly maintained
> (GPG/ Stardock style games) then you're premium, high-quality real
> games. 

Good to know my next puzzle/tetris remake I can sell for $60 and keep 
you off my back. If you are actually in gaming I'm guessing you don't 
work in Marketing or PR.

> As my friend at Nintendo says, smaller, private companies like GPG and
> Stardock simply pocket the money, and forsake the people who wish to
> continue to play the game and want patches. Often, Gas Powered Games
> and Stardock skips important fixes that ruin the game and instead work
> on yet more overpriced "Expansion packs", which add to a game, which
> is already so buggy and prone to crashing it's useless.

You don't have friends at Nintendo, you struck up a conversation with 
one of their phone support people who you now call you're friend because 
he was forced to give you his first name to get you off the line.

> Then again, this is just my opinion, as a game developer for one of
> the few leading game makers out there. You're mileage may very. Yet
> reality is, most people spend their money and just grow to apathetic
> (or in the case of Gas Powered Games, scared) to post critical
> reviews.

Here's my opinion, why so much hate? If you don't like it, don't use it? 
I've not any any of the problems you're describing with these games, 
(not that you've really described any) though honestly the whole 
gas/stardock anology is priceless.

> Do yourself a favor - if you're going to use these games, Try before
> you buy. I'm not saying do anything illegal (i.e. downloading of
> bittorrent) but ask a friend if you can try it. If you don't have a
> friend playing, don't bother -- you're not going to make friends in a
> community of teens and fanboys.

Wow, such hatred for the people you're trying to appeal too. If you're 
trying to win over the hearts and minds of an audience, maybe you should 
brush up on who your audience is. I'm a bit of a fanboy. I enjoy Chris 
Taylor's latest and insulting me by insinuating that I don't have 
friends because I am a fan of Chris's games defies logic.

> I do not expect this to change the opinion of zealous fanboys or
> somehow bring heart into the griefers that control these groups. But
> simply warn people: Try before you buy, or don't buy at all. Wait
> until the high-budget, god-like game makers release their game. :)

I'm no "zealous" fanboy, but I would suggest that if you think you can 
write a better game, why not make one yourself? (well you say you are, 
but I see no names, so I'm gonna guess you work at one of GPGs 
competitors) Wait! I know you now, your the Starcraft 2 guy who posted 
something a week ago about how Starcraft 2 is going to be new and better 
than any RTS out there. I wonder who signs your checks for posting all 
this. I wonder if an ip trace of some sort might point to one of the 
Blizzard offices?

> And finally, this is simply my opinion of the matter. I am posting
> this anonymously because I am in fear of reprisal and harassment by
> the companies and the zealous players who spread hate through the
> company as a proxy.

Chicken... android8675 AT hotmail dot com

> God bless, and don't forget (trolls and fanboys), get outside and
> exercise.

Back at'cha buddy. Starcraft 2 looks pretty good, but if anyone thinks 
that game is going to be anything more than an expansion to Starcraft 1, 
they are fooling themselves. I wouldn't pay more than $30 for that game 
either.

-- 
-A.