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Article #207Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: Lee Lorenz
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 23:42
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 23:42
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John Sabean <doc...@eng.umd.edu> writes: >Its sort of silly from a user standpoint, seeing as the game is only 13 megs >in size. It doesn't NEED to be CD-only yet it is now. Seeing as there are only a few >From their point of view, there is a *HUGE* base of CDROM users out there, besides, CDROM's are only a buck or two, vs. two or three times that much for a diskette version. Remember, economics and marketing drives them, not the needs of users afraid to bring their systems out of the stone age. It wasn't long ago when the big deal was 5.25" disks, before that it was C=64, before that, Apple][. Obscelesence (sp?) is a fact of life, but I've had my CDROM for two years now. I would rather buy a game *DESIGNED* for CDROM, with the massive storage, than load 37meg onto my hard drive, or buy an "enhanced" CDROM game quickly ported from diskette to CDROM. Lee
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