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Matuse (mat...@netcom.com) wrote:
: 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.


Where did you get this statistic? It sounds like the same falacy that I used
to here about how more businesses were buying MS Windows than personal users
until somebody actually went and counted it. Guess what! I disagree with
your statement BTW.

: 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.

Well you are probably screwed anyway then because you will need some 
reasonable processor speed to play their games regardless of its transfer
medium. Besides, you can buy a CD for under a $100 these days. Not state
of the art, but adequate. Hell doublespeed drives are $200 or less now!

                                  tozz