🚀 go-pugleaf

>Sierra,
>
>   Like many others, I have enjoyed your games for many years.  Unfortunately,
>your bloodthirsty lust for marketing brainwashed you into releasing several
>games like QFG4 with a severly buggy Dos Extender Engine.  Your patch has 
>failed at fixing these problems in my copy of QFG4.  I am returning it with a 
>copy of the receipt for a full refund.  Perhaps when you have finally perfected
>your engine, I will purchase the updated copy.  Until then,
>
>       Your game has crashed... Kinda makes ya wish you waited until
>       you got it to work, doesn't it?
>
>       * Restore       * Restart        * Quit
>
>       (He he he, a little SOFTWARE humor there.)

I like your idea.  The thing that really annoys me is that
whenever you update your game you can't restore from a saved game
anymore.  Thus I have had to restart completely on more than one
occasion because Sierra was too lazy to write a convert program.

However there is one problem with boycotting companies that
sucumb to monetary greed: we would end up boycotting them all.
Most of the big companies now produce hordes of patches for there
games, maybe they should take some lessons from Donald Knuth (the
author of TeX) who offers cash to people who can find a bug in
TeX, and isn't any poorer for it.  It is disgusting to think that
the first thing I do after purchasing a new game isn't to install
it but rather to look for the company's BBS number so I can get
the latest patch release(s) :(.

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Mike Henders		     The opinions expressed above are my
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			     those of the University of Calgary.
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