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Article #36Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: pfle... Nightfox
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 01:43
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 01:43
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Adam Farkas (afa...@umich.edu) wrote: : Of course, the cynical way to view this one is that Origin wants to reduce : piracy to zero -- I'm sorry to say it, but piracy will never be reduced to zero : Even if they were to bring back a classic like autoduel, they'd probably : stuff 200 megs of useless multimedia clips on it, just so people couldn't : pirate it. What's wrong with that? They have to try to protect their investment somehow. And actually with Ultima 8, first their was absolutely no copy protection, second the manual was about 90% in the actual game with some of those books that are read, and other stuff. It almost seemed to me that Origin thought "Well people are going to pirate it, so we might as well put everything except the install guide and catalog within game." -- .__________________________________________________________________________. |Internet: pfle...@scu.edu.au | | One hour from now WING COMMANDER 3 will be one hour closer to release | |__________________________________________________________________________|
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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 Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!caen!msuinfo!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!alsvid.scu.edu.au!pfleming From: pfle...@scu.edu.au (Nightfox) Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever! Message-ID: <Cy9BG9.KCr@scu.edu.au> Followup-To: 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 Organization: Southern Cross University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <38ep3g$5gj@adam.cc.sunysb.edu> <Cy6wCC.A22@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <38ho4p$jsk@ren.cs.ucsb.edu> <38i49h$l9@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <38jpqe$8m2@caslon.CS.Arizona.EDU> <afarkas.25.0@umich.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 01:43:21 GMT Lines: 19 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit