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Re: Wing commander IV rellease date

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From: Cha... Clay Cahill
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-

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Subject: Re: Wing commander IV rellease date
Date: 1996/01/10
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