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Hello fellow flight-simers!

In <38orlo$s...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> j-h...@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (James Hogan) writes:

>>industry, in fact we support it whole-heartedly. We just don't like the 
>>way Origin jumps from one extreme to the other and forces us to shell 
>>out money to upgrade our computers every single year, only to play dud 
>>games like SC, PS, and U8.

>Hm?  I thought you liked Strike?

Did I say I like Strike? :) I liked the CD version better than the floppy 
version, that's for sure. But as it stands, the game failed many of my 
expectations. For example, the highly-tauted fly four different 
aircrafts, including the infamous Harrier, was absent in the game; you 
were only able to fly the F-16 and F-22. And how about the star in SC 
thing? Not there either. But that's beside the point...

>No matter, anyway, Origin doesn't force you to upgrade your system at 
>all.  :)  If you're that concerned that the game will be bad, then wait 
>until you see it in action first before you decide to shell out several 
>hundred on a motherboard upgrade for it.

Don't they? They drag the industry along with their new annual tech 
standards. As it is, we gamers have very little choice when every major 
software publishing software company join the race.

The point is that Origin doesn't have to push the technological front 
every year to keep her customers buying her games. She could have easily 
mastered the programming in the U7 system first by adding more storyline, 
deeper philosophical contents, bigger worlds, better combat design/AI, 
more NPC interactions etc before moving to a newer platform design like 
U8. But most of all, if she does decide to push technological edge, make 
sure her result products live up to her advertised hype. It almost seem 
as if '90's programmers are obsessed with designing bigger and 
flashier programs without substance.

BTW James, why are you spending so much time on news?! Get to your mail 
once in a while! :D

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