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In article <39phrf$f...@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (GM Enierga) writes:
>From: gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (GM Enierga)
>Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
>Date: 9 Nov 1994 04:06:07 GMT

>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.

I guess you would buy the game on tape.  How are you going to get 100 megs of 
speach on your system.  If you buy it on cd, there is really no need to copy 
it to the hard drive.  I'm not sure what the point of this discusion is.  Game 
companies are going to cd rom because there is no reason at all for them not 
to.
Most new systems have CD-Roms.
Most users who actually pay for games, have the cash to buy a cd rom.
CD rom games sell as well, if not better than floppy games.
It discourages piracy.
It allows for better graphics and sounds, which are a big part of what sells a 
  game.
It is cheaper to make than the floppy version from a production standpoint.
It looks cool in your fish tank when your done playing the game.
PDeMaio

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