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Re: Ubisoft's Euro versions of NWC products

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From: Eduardo Silva
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 00:00
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Do you know of sites where we can buy if we don�t have a credit card, or
places in Portugal where games ae imported from the US?
It�s true that in here we just get satisfied with the piece of software, but
I wish to buy MM&6 and I want it to come with a cloth map.

Eduardo
Christoph Nahr wrote in message <3575fa7a...@news.supernews.com>...
>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,
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From: "Eduardo Silva" <hel...@mail.telepac.pt>
Subject: Re: Ubisoft's Euro versions of NWC products
Date: 1998/06/02
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