🚀 go-pugleaf

	"Aaron" has brought up some good points, even with his irrational 
use of arguments to relay them.  

	In reading through this amazingly long thread (filled with GOOD 
points as well as idiotic arguments about religion and the such), I tried 
to put myself into the mind of Origin's marketers and designers. The only 
thing I could come up with as to why the would wantto produce only for 
the next in line processors is because the people who buy theses systems 
probably have a lot of free money...  Of course, this is IMHO, and only 
what I think of as a possible reason.
	I thikn Origin could takea page from ID's product development 
crew... Howmany times have I read that the engine for quake is finished, 
"we are just trying to design a story around it".  This is what I feel 
makes a good game, even though QUake may be in a different Gendre than a 
true RPG,  it is worth pointing out that they designed an engine with the 
best capabilities/average machine and then designed a plot for it.  Maybe 
this is a trend which more companies should follow to eliminate lousy 
games.  What I feel this does is allows the designers /programmers to 
concentrate on developing an efficient graphics engine and have no 
concerns about what it will be used for.  The only concern is to get it 
efficient enough to run on MOST computers.
	Of course, I must say that I haven't really played any origin 
games since I packed away my c64 (may that beautiful machine Rest in 
Peace!), I am myself very happy with my dx2/66 currently, and will not 
upgrade for probably another year.  But I do see, however, more games 
becoming "choppy" on my system, it just isn't frustrating to the point 
where I'll do anything about it... (well, I'm a student, so I have no 
money to do anything about it yet anyways heheh).
	
	Usually when something like this thread appears, there is at 
least one person from the company there to defend the company's 
actions...  But not a word from Origin.  Could it be they've become 
immune to this type of complaining due to the sheer volume of it?
	It'll be their Origin's loss if it is.

				J.P.