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th...@aloha.cc.columbia.edu (Tom  Hong) writes:
>In article <3arqj8$1...@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>,
>GM Enierga <gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>Dear Mr. Enierga, please pass this along to your friend for me.  Thanks.  :)

	He did.


>	Well one man's treasure is another's junk.  There are people who
>like Privateer and people who don't.  I say it's awesome and you say it
>sucked.  (shrug)

	Not exactly what I said, but I guess I'll go along with that.


>> Origin only has themselves to blame for it.
>	I disagree.  Origin apologizes to no one in regard to Privateer.

	:-) Since when does ANY company apologise for something? ;-)


>Having stayed up there at CGW's 10 currently most played games list for
>a year already (it was released late in 1993 if I am not mistaken) The

	Forgive me if I do not believe magazine "top #X" lists.  Who puts those
games there anyway (ie who votes for them?)?


>game ran with good performance (frame rates, disk access speeds, etc) and
>as indicated by the polls, has a large following.  So I don't think Origin
>has anything to be sorry for at all in releasing Privateer.

	Just the story and a bit of the voicing.  But I uess you've all heard
this before.


>	I do agree, however, that Pacific Strike is indeed a disaster; it
>never made the 10 current list and was blasted by editors from the moment
>it was released because of its poor performance even on hot-rod machines.
>As was shown by the polls, it was never accepted by the gaming public, in
>this case I do think Origin has something to apologize for (which they did).

	They DID?? When? Where?  Last I heard, someone posted something about
calling their tech support dept. about it and they told him it had no probs.
(or something to that effect).


>	But as I said before, most of their other recent games (e.g.
>Strike Commander-- and I have the floppy version and never had any problems
>with it,

	You mean the hazing problem did not bother you?


> Armada) has a following also, and have been polled as being some
>of the most-played games for a while as well.  Origin doesn't have to
>apologize to anyone else for these either.
>TRH Sends

	I never did ask for an apology as such.  More a case of "See what you
did; see if you can improve next time"...  I can't blame them for SC - they DID
fix that with their CD-ROM release.  As for Armada... sorry, I just can't agree
with you there.  What's the point of having a 2-player network only? (which
reminds me - have they released the 6-player patch yet?)

								- Falcon