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Article #160860Re: Wing Commander 6 coming soon
From: Mattias Hembruch
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:35
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:35
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In article <5vi5uvspp2iok785o3bvld06tvoj0dvnmc@4ax.com>, Christopher Reid <CReid1701@aol.com> wrote: >On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:16:29 GMT, "Shot" <Shot97@prodigy.net> wrote: > >> >>"Kevin Scholl" <kscholl@comcast.net> wrote in message >>news:sfadndiWvP8Gf0qiRVn-vg@comcast.com... > >>> > Small but key point here is the title itself. WCP Gold. Wing Commander >>> >>> The name of the compilation is largely irrelevant. We're talking about >>> the game itself, not the compilation package that came later. >> >>Well I know you are talking about SO, but it sure doesn't help your case >>knowing that they packaged the two together as Prophecy Gold. In order to > >I don't see how there's even a case. The name of the game is Wing >Commander Secret Ops. Play the game. There's no "Prophecy: Secret >Ops," it's just Secret Ops. Also, play the game. You don't need >Prophecy to play, so it's not an addon. There's just no case as to >whether it's a separate game or not. >What else would they call Prophecy and Secret Ops packaged together? >Prophecy Gold is as good a name as any. "Officially", you're probably right. I fit in with the "feels like an addon" crowd. In the way that all previous "Secret Ops" were addons.. (well, sort of - I haven't played them all..) Mattias
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!internal1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!torn!news.uwaterloo.ca!not-for-mail From: mghembru@ecexh.uwaterloo.ca (Mattias Hembruch) Newsgroups: alt.games.wing-commander Subject: Re: Wing Commander 6 coming soon Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:35:03 +0000 (UTC) Organization: University of Waterloo Lines: 31 Message-ID: <brv9bn$vn9$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca> References: <kuadnXyg_LcWB1eiRVn-jg@comcast.com> <sfadndiWvP8Gf0qiRVn-vg@comcast.com> <hV6Cb.40049$JE6.28190@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com> <5vi5uvspp2iok785o3bvld06tvoj0dvnmc@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ecexh.uwaterloo.ca X-Trace: rumours.uwaterloo.ca 1071851703 32489 129.97.56.64 (19 Dec 2003 16:35:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@uwaterloo.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:35:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit