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In article <BiwUCBj...@delphi.com> Lee Lorenz <llo...@delphi.com> writes:
>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.

Well firstly, most CD-Roms are bought by businesses and schools for 
work/learning purposes, and you can be pretty sure that they won't be 
investing in a lot of origin games.

I'm sure Origin did their research on how many CD games were bought, and 
thats how they justify it, but for those of us who don't have a couple 
hundred dollars to throw around to "bring their systems out of the stone age"
we are left way out in the cold.

And its not like whole realms of amazing things open up with CDs, yes 
they store a lot of info, and yes they may be cheap to build, but they 
can't really do anything that a normal hard drive can't, they might just 
do it a little more efficiently/faster, this hardly justifies removing an 
entire product line.

Matt, who when he has enough money to buy a CD-ROM drive, you can bet 
he'll be throwing it away on such irrelvancies as food, water, electricity...


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