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Article #42Re: This whole February 9th thing...
From: Cha... Clay Cahill
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:00
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Chris Douglas <cdou...@origin.ea.com> wrote: >If we cared more about our profit margins, we'd have just sold you a buggy >game in December. We lose money from Christmas sales by waiting until >February. But we'd rather ship a good game late than a bad game early. > >-- Good, fine. I'm glad the release was delayed. I heard that QA sent the game back with 150 bugs in early December, and I'm glad I didn't have to spent the Christmas season figureing them out. What I'm mad about though is the stupid marketing spin that has been going on... Held for world wide release indeed. Clay- _________________________________________________________________________ -Microsoft Network is prohibited from redistibuting this work in any form, in whole or in part. Copyright, Clayton A. Cahill, 1995 -License to distribute this post is available for $1,000. Posting without permission constitutes an agreement to these terms. -Please send notices of violation to postm...@microsoft.com
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From: Cha...@ix.netcom.com (Clay Cahill) Subject: Re: This whole February 9th thing... Date: 1996/01/10 Message-ID: <30f36c6b.301153@nntp.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 136008764 references: <4c30bq$m2r@xmission.xmission.com> <30E987DE.2781@origin.ea.com> organization: Bucketmouth x-netcom-date: Tue Jan 09 11:52:32 PM PST 1996 newsgroups: alt.games.wing-commander MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit