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Article #311Re: Wing commander IV rellease date
From: Cha... Clay Cahill
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:00
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ga...@netcom.com (Gary Hladik) wrote: >With over $12 million in capital tied up in the game, Origin would be insane >to delay major revenues just to hype a product that's practically a sure hit >anyway. The game is delayed because there are numerous bugs still to fix. > >I think you should save your ire for game companies that *don't* delay >buggy games, and use the public as beta testers. :-) > >Gary What pisses me off is that they don't say, "Well, it's not quite ready yet. We're setting release back to spruce up the code a little." Rather, they tell us about clever marketing plans. Now that pisses me off. They don't have enough confidence in their public to tell us what's going on. 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: Wing commander IV rellease date Date: 1996/01/10 Message-ID: <30f30ef1.4823074@nntp.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 134862333 references: <30f0d803.4268135@news.intelenet.net> <gah00DKw28L.JzF@netcom.com> organization: Bucketmouth x-netcom-date: Tue Jan 09 5:12:59 PM PST 1996 newsgroups: alt.games.wing-commander MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit