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On Fri, 23 May 2003, Andy Lewis wrote:

> Just do what I do - stay far enough behind the times that every game you
> buy runs on your system like an absolute dream...

This is a very good and sound approach. There are almost only
advantages to this "tactic". Other advantages other than those you
mention is that when you buy the games, you often get a stable, fixed
version, and not version 1.0 which always hits the shelves too early
(rushed for the holidays and what not) and therefore is buggy and
messy. These bugs are then later fixed, and the people who bought the
game early are forced to upgrade several times over the net.

Whereas you pick up a clean, stable version 1.21 (or whatever) 1½
years later for $9.99... ;-D

And it's not like you just sit around and *wait* for that time to go
buy, because you're quite busy playing titles now that were released
some time ago. :-)

I've also seen games and their major add-ons/mods being thrown into
one package for a low-low price (Take Half-life,CS and Blue Shift in
one pack, for example, for roughly $15!). Kick-ass.

The only downside, as I see it, is that the online communities might
have "moved on" by the time you start playing the game.

OTOH, there are still a lot of people who play for example DooM and
Quake online, so that risk is perhaps slim, other than for
non-quality titles? You at least get to play very devoted (read
"fanatic") people! :-D

My $0.02,
-- 
Kristian Ronge |zuc...@bigfoot.com|d99...@nada.kth.se
d99, Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology
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