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jand...@netcom.com (Justin Anderson) writes:
>In article <39pe45$d...@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>,
>GM Enierga <gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>>	But tell me honestly: looking at Origin's trend, do you REALLY believe
>>they will keep supporting the 486 market?  I am not talking NOW (though you
>>could take this "now" as some sort of beginning) but perhaps a year from now:
>>do you think Origin's games will support the 486, when a year ago its games
>>still ran "satisfactorily" on a 386?

>Who cares?  This thread just gets more and more ludicrous.  If Origin targets
>a market that's too small, they'll go out of business or they'll wise up.  If
>on the other hand, they can sustain their success targetting high end machines,
>more power to them.  They are not the United States Postal Service (which
>has a mandate that it *must* serve every address in the US).  The point is,
>get over it.  If you can't run WC III (or whatever their next game is) then
>you've got a few choices:  upgrade your machine (but don't bitch about being
>"forced to," it's just a game after all, you *can* live without it); buy it and
>run it on your substandard machine (and don't bitch about it not running well,
>unless you have the minimum recommended system); or (and here's a radical 
>thought) don't buy the damn thing.  There is no law that says you must play
>WC III.  To some people, this game would be enough to make them upgrade their
>computers.  To the vast majority, it's not.  Figure out what category you're
>in and be happy.  Look at it this way:  you *will* upgrade your computer
>eventually.  If you don't do so for another couple of years, you'll be able
>to pick up WC III for $20 in the bargain bin and run it faster than it ran
>when it was released.

>Justin (who's wondering how this thread got so long)

	First of all, I care - I don't want to feel the need to upgrade my
every 3 years.  And the points you have raised are valid... you have basically
said what I did in a more explanatory sense.  Thank youI guess, now I won't be
getting all that mail telling me all that you have said above.  And yes, I WILL
upgrade my comp sometime... if that was not the case - well, how many people do
you know that still run word processors and games from their trs80 machines?
As for the thread... *shrugs* I am not the only one writing here.  I just reply
to whatever I think I have an opinion on.  If people do not like reading these
things, then they have the choise of NOT reading them; I stopped reading doom2
related stuff a LONG time ago.
	So don't give me this attitude of this thread boring you.  No one
ordered you to sit on hot coals if you didn't read it.

							- Falcon

PS.	And that goes for all the other people out there who are "bored" with
this thread.  Don't read it if you do not want to.
	It's nice to have a choise, isn't it? :-)