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Re: Origin - CD-only forever!

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From: har... Eric Harding
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 01:17
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	Unfortunatly, what most people are forgetyting is that Origin is 
owned by EA, which was once ran by Trip Hawkins, who also founded 3DO.   
Most likely the main reason behind this Origin is CD-ROM forever bit is 
because of this.   Also, I expect the gameplay to be a lot less complex 
on WCIII then previous games, so that those who own a 3DO don't get 
confused.   They are not the type used to reading the manual before play, 
they just want to drop in the game, and off they go.

IF anyone here thinks Origin/EA is gonna allow the former depth that 
existed in Origin games to continue in their new PC/3DO videowares, 
you're mistaken.   Armada has lousy gameplay, U8 is just plain bad, and 
Privateer wasn't that good.     WCIII is not going to be much more than a 
movie, with combat sequences ran by a bad combat engine, if it's anything 
like the one in Armada.


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