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"Karl Frank" <karl@karl.frank.name> wrote in message
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> Ineedmoney wrote:
>
> > Thats the point isnt? If Origin were not in trouble financially how
could
> > they justify removing so much FMV content in the game? Oh thats right,
> > release it on the Internet! Perfect, that way they could use the EXCUSE
that
> > SO couldnt have FMV's because on how big they would be.
>
> Argh - that degree of twisted logic makes my head hurt in the morning.
> I don't know how you came to the conclusion that Origin was in financial
> trouble (especially as WCP made them more profit then WC3 or WC4).
> Can you say EXPERIMENT? To my knowledge SO is the only game that was
> ever released in this fashion (episode by episode over a two months
> timeframe). And at least for the players it also was a huge success
> IMHO. Never had there been so much conversation around a game as for SO
> in the WC community - simply because we had been forced to only play
> small parts instead of rushing through the whole thing in two days.

...Im entirely sure  you understood my point.

> > If Origin were not in trouble, they would have included FMV's and they
would
> > have released it properly IF it was a standalone game to continue the
Wing
> > Comander series.What they did was to release it in a unique but weird
way,
> > but then use that "way" as an excuse for how the reason why they didn't
film
> > any FMV's.
>
> How many percent of people had broadband when SO was released? How many
> of the last 10 space sims released feature FMV? How many of ALL games
> released last year use FMV? How did the profit of the whole industry
> develop over the last 2-3 years?
> (Hint:
> Very very few, especially outside the USA
> 0
> I don't know any, but certainly few
> Dramatic rise in profits, surpassing the movie business AFAIK)

So WingCommander has to be like every other game? FMV's had become a staple
of WingCommander after Wing3 and something I for one looked forward to.

> Oh, and BTW: I can name at least one other space sim that was first
> distributed for free and now is in the shelves as full retail version!
> Halcyon Sun... No it also doesn't have FMV, so don't bother buying it.

Oh yea that game. First of all, YES it did in fact have FMV's. They were
with in-game graphics I'll grant you, but at least you could see characters
instead of just a ship with voices in the background. SO was much more fun
than Halcyon Sun which I actually took back to the shop to get my money
back. It was released, with the copy I bought anyway, with some low budget
SCI-FI cable film, which was a lot more entertaining than the terrible game
that it came with. I had high standards when I compared it to Wing
Commander, after all. And Im pretty sure if the makers of Halcyon Sun had a
bigger budget they would have made FMV's.

Ed