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Article #29Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: pr... Parik Rao
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 01:48
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 01:48
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In <Cy6wC...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> ceba...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Casey Barton) writes: > People have been saying this about Origin since they released Wing >Commander. > "What?! You *need* a 386 for it to be playable? That's ridiculous! >They're abandoning a substantial part of the market. They don't understand >economics - they're going to go bankrupt for sure!" > Then a funny thing happened. People went and bought 386 computers. They could put the game on milk boxes for all I care, as long as it plays well. Unfortunately Origin has been so caught up in the Nintendo-esque uninteractive gaming that their recent games, well, suck... Doom isn't popular cuz it comes on CD, I don't STILL have Monkey Island and Tie Fighter on my drives cuz they require Pentium-90's. They are fun. Origin needs some honest people to continously test their new games instead of brown-nosing insiders. Ultima 8 was a fiasco, and Wing Commander Armada isn't all that great (plays sad as a standalone, only 2 player network?!?). -- parik rao pr...@cs.ucsb.edu, r...@rns.com
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu!nntp.ucsb.edu!nntp.ucsb.edu!news From: pr...@ren.cs.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever! Date: 24 Oct 1994 18:48:09 -0700 Organization: U.C. Santa Barbara Lines: 24 Message-ID: <38ho4p$jsk@ren.cs.ucsb.edu> References: <38ep3g$5gj@adam.cc.sunysb.edu> <1994Oct24.013219.10665@pimacc.pima.edu> <Cy6wCC.A22@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Reply-To: pr...@cs.ucsb.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: ren.cs.ucsb.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit