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Ineedmoney wrote:

>>You sound like a broken record. Try, please to understand this: the
>>decision to release an episodic game via the Internet was NOT an excuse.
>>It was PLANNED that way from the beginning. There is no indication
>>whatsover that Origin was in financial difficulty. The simple fact is
>>that the space combat genre was no longer as viable as it had been, so
>>Origin decided to try something different.
> 
> 
> You dont seem to understand. I KNOW it was planned, and now I KNOW they were
> not in financial difficulty except both of which leads me to suspect it was
> always an addon for Prophecy, a precursor to the next FULL WingCommander

I just don't see how planning a different delivery method, and not being 
in financial difficulty leads to WCSO being an add-on. There's no logic 
there.

> game. It was free, thus allowing everyone to get it... to make people aware
> that hadent played the games of Wing Commander. It was then released WITH
> Prophecy with almost the same graphics on the box. None of this is what I

Which I explained in an earlier post. Had the series not been canceled, 
it's very likely that we wouldn't have seen Prophecy Gold. We probably 
would have seen a "Nephilim Saga" or something of that nature once the 
games of that conflict were completed.

The fact that WCSO was packaged with WCP, and the compilation was called 
Prophecy Gold, means little if anything.

> would expect if its a stand alone game (like Wing 3, 4 and WcP), with a
> company that is not in  financial trouble!

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>>There is no indication whatsover that Origin was in financial
> 
> 
> You've made that clear, which now only strengthens my belief as I see no
> good reason for them to treat SO the way they did, UNLESS it was an addon.

Again, there's no logic in that belief.

>>difficulty. The simple fact is that the space combat genre was no longer
>>as viable as it had been, so Origin decided to try something different.
> 
> 
> So they didnt think they would make enough money off it? Isnt that the same
> as 'not being able to afford FMV's', like I said at the beginning?

No, don't try to read between lines that aren't there. WCSO was 
developed and released before Origin decided to stop the series; its 
nature had nothing to do with finances or discontinuing the series. 
However, Prophecy Gold DID come after the cessation of the series, 
likely to squeeze a last little bit out of it. Mutually exclusive 
situations.

>>>Your argument here is simply an excuse!! It was THEIR decision to
> 
> release it
> 
>>>in the way they did, and if they had the money they would have released
> 
> it
> 
>>>properly.
>>
>>"Properly" is subjective in this case.
> 
> 
> 'Properly', in the sense that every other game gets released.

Sigh. I think I'm through discussing this with you. You just keep going 
around in circles, ignoring common logic, and making stuff up as you go. 
It's not worth it. You think WCSO is an add-on to Prophecy, fine, that's 
your perogative. Obviously no amount of evidence to the contrary is 
going to sway you.

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