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yc...@mhoro.cc.columbia.edu (Yung Jin Chew) writes:
>In article <39kkkj$9...@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>,
>GM Enierga <gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>>	Agreed... if the speech packs really ARE that bad, like Origin's have
>>been.  But if the speech packs add full sound to more than 90% in the game
>>which is what one buying a speech pack would expect, then why not?  I would
>>buy it with no complains.  The "rip-off" comes when the speech pack basically
>>gives you only a few messages out of a potential huge amount.  Case in point:

>Once again you expect the impossible.  There be always whiners in this
>world I guess.  What would happen if the full game with 90% speech was
>over 100 megs  (probably an optimistic  view,  since WC2  has so  much
>dialogue between missions)?  People would  start whining that the game
>takes   up too much   space! (as  they  did  with  Strike Commander, I
>believe) People are NEVER satisfied.

	Ah - there lies the flaw to your logic.  We would all know how much
extra space the speech would take up in the case you describe, so we would have
the option of buying it or not - and knowing what to expect.  To illustrrate,
now that I have a 500 Mb Hd I WOULD buy the speech pack with 100Mb of extra
speech that would be present THROUGHOUT the game.  And I am not the only one,
either.
	Even with Strike Commander, if that had full speech throughout the
entire game (including the intermissions) then it was only - what? about 20-30
Mb extra? (wasn't the speech pack a 12mb add-on?)

						- Falcon