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The European (incl UK) distribution of New World Computing's products
is handled by Ubisoft of France.  For anyone who considers buying
NWC's fine products I'd like to issue a warning based on the recent
releases of Might & Magic VI and the Heroes of M&M Compendium.

While the (standard) US edition of MM6 has a nice cloth map, British
customers are only deemed worthy of a cheap paper map.  While the US
edition of the HoMM Compendium has a redone manual covering all
included games (HoMM 1, HoMM 2, Price of Loyalty add-on) and one
reference card for each game, the German edition has the manual and
reference card for HoMM2 only -- and a sheet saying that HoMM1 was
really just a freebie and therefore no documentation was provided!

Also consider that it takes Ubisoft at least a month to prepare the
international releases after a game has been released in the USA, and
that Ubisoft's German translation is a sad joke (what quality are the
other translations?), and I'd recommend to anyone interested in NWC's
fine products to either get a credit card and order them directly from
the US (say http://www.cdmag.com or http://www.4cds.com) or else find
a local dealer who does direct imports from the US (I can provide a
German address if anyone's interested).

European publishers are well aware of the fact that European customers
are far less critical than American ones: they put up with any trash
that is thrown at them and will rarely ever complain.  The typical
glowing Euro-mag "review" of alpha or beta software is testament to
that.  Only if we deny them our business they might eventually take
note and improve their standards.  Let's start with Ubisoft.
-- 
Chris Nahr (chn...@emailNOSPAM.msn.com, remove NOSPAM to e-mail)
MM6 Quick Reference at http://home.t-online.de/home/Christoph.Nahr