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In article <Cy6wC...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>, ceba...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Casey Barton) writes:
> <ppug...@pimacc.pima.edu> wrote:
>>In article <38ep3g$5...@adam.cc.sunysb.edu>, fw...@cs.sunysb.edu (.) writes:
>>> I was watching some show called 'The computer man' and they had an origin 
>>> story, and Origin said they shipped their very last Floppy Disk game!  All
>>> their games are going to be Cd-only forever!  Bwa ha ha haaaaaaaa.
>>
>>yeah, they're going to abandon the sustantial part of the market
>>that doesn't have to money to keep up with them. Will it work?
>>Time will tell.
> 
>    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.
> 
> (I still believe that the single biggest reason people bought their first 386
> *was* Wing Commander itself! Of course, Origin won't be driving the market for
> CD-ROMs in the same way this time. Myst has already done it... :) )
> 
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I think it's somewhat pretentious for Origin to think that a game company
will drive the industry. But whatever happens, they can always say that it
wouldn't have been any different anyways & who can say for sure that it's
not true?