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Started by djk... Daniel King
Thu, 04 Jan 1996 00:00
ORIGIN spend HOW MUCH on WC4?!?
Author: djk... Daniel King
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 00:00
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>From what I've heard that is one HELL of an investment, the only way they're going to be able to get back all of their money is through merchandising all of the miscellaneous stuff like t-shirts, mugs, and fridge magnets... As to Privateer II, I enjoyed no.1 immensely and hope to death they've improved the flight control...it was WAY too 2 dimensional. The only other thing I'd hope they'd do is include a doom-type scenario...so you can lock on to other ships, enter them, kill the crew, and steal the other ship to sell as salvage. I'd also like to see computer operated turrets so you don't have to run back and forth firing them all. Of course, I'd also like to be able to hire a crew (opens up a whole range of things, like mutiny, theft, a bunch of stuff). And if anyone has a retort about the 2D aspect of flying in Privateer, try flying around a planet, or a space station...try to find the SUN in a system, or moons, they just don't exist! ORIGIN has done a LOT of work on it's software, much more than any other company has, I hope they keep it up, but I also hope they don't get caught up in their own programming so much that they don't expand their own horizons. Kudos to ORIGIN! I love your stuff...keep up the good work. And oh, one other thing...PLEASE go back over your scripting after you're done and include it in the program...get an ENGLISH graduate to go over it, not an engineer who has the time to do it now that the rendering is done... Case in point: Wing Commander III On CD-1 After saving the Blackmane, upon requesting clearance from the Victory... "There having a party in your honour on the Blackmane, Colonel..." There? THERE?! No, it's THEY'RE...They are...They're...not there, there denotes a place, not a possessive. I don't want to come down on anyone, but this was early on in the script, no one should have bee overly tired or sloppy at THIS point, should they? A minor nitpick, but hey, if you're LOOKING to employ an English grad to go over text in any of your future endeavours...I'M AVAILABLE! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My .sig was too big, Now it's not. Thank you, Daniel King - djk...@chat.carleton.ca =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: ORIGIN spend HOW MUCH on WC4?!?
Author: Cha... Clay Cahill
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 00:00
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djk...@chat.carleton.ca (Daniel King) wrote: > >>From what I've heard that is one HELL of an investment, the only way >they're going to be able to get back all of their money is through >merchandising all of the miscellaneous stuff like t-shirts, mugs, and >fridge magnets... Ahem... Origin grossed $12,000,000 the day of WC3's release on software alone. 'nuff said. 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
Re: ORIGIN spend HOW MUCH on WC4?!?
Author: bhelf... BHelfersta
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 00:00
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I'm a writer and I didn't have any problem with that. It's a game, and I was listening to the speech, not reading the words. Probably like most people, so they probably didn't pay that much attention to the captions. bhelf...@aol.com (The Mysterious Story Teller)
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