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got...@regiss.optera.com (ABHOTH DAIMONIZOMAI) wrote:

>Is it just me, or are Origin programmers just really lazy and stupid? The

I don't think its the programmers, I think its the people that market their
stuff, and tell them what to write.

>reason I say this is because they hype their games as being
>oh-so-high-tech and state-of-the-art-push-the-envelope stuff, but yet
>their games really aren't all that much more spectacular than some of the
>stuff already out. The only difference, of course, is that Origin's games

Well, as I said before, companies HAVE to push stuff like this in peoples
faces nowadays to get people to buy things (Well, other than ID..).

>though they are EXTREMELY over-rated. Case in point, Cybermage. Huge 9 meg

I would have to go for WC3 being extremely over-rated. It was so hyped in
every magazine, yet a friend of mine bought the game, thought it sucked, gave
it to me, and I thought it sucked, and i gave it to a friend, and he thought
it sucked, and now the friend I gave it to has tried selling it for $10 and NO
ONE WILL BUY IT BECAUSE IT SUCKS SO BAD. 

>demo. The game is pitifully slow on a Pentium 90 at high res with all
>detail on. And what's so special about it? Graphics are nothing exciting,

Well, this may be more of a problem with the video card in said system. I have
yet to see a video card handle 640x480 reasonably fast as 320x200 .. They just
don't update quick enough for fluid playing..

>and everything is still 90 degrees. Oh, but it's SVGA, so I guess that

Yes, these engines are really going downhill as of late... 

>with. Why is this? Origin must think "well gee, it runs on a Pentium 133
>so lets just leave it alone" instead of tweaking it and making sure that
>it runs just as well on the slower systems. I guess Origin is just afraid
>of hard work, they just want the money, that's all. Now I see Origin

I've seen a lot of companies starting to do this, but I think i will still pay
out all my cash to a company like ID because they find a decent target system
(Ie. dx2/66 for Quake) and they work their asses off making it run perfectly
on that system and still have PLAYABILITY. Unlike others who just find it
works on such a system they market it, even though it isn't playable AT ALL on
that system.

<HUGE sig deleted> That was nice and all, but I think you only need what i
kept below. :)

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