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Article #710038Re: "A Quick Guide for a Supportive PC Gamer"
From: Marcel Beaudoin
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:06
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:06
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pc games <pcgame...@yahoo.com> wrote in news:maonv2t9ec04t5...@4ax.com: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Zaghadka wrote: > >> You don't seem to understand that it's not the CONSUMER's >> responsibility to make a game company profitable. That's the Board of >> Directors/CEO/President of the company's job. > > Board of Directors don't give a damn about copy-protection > inconveniences cause they don't have to use it BZZZT!! Programming copy protection into their software costs them time and money. > Board of Directors don't give a damn about being able to use the PC > for gaming cause for them everything is the same BZZZT!! Programming for consoles requires paying a hefty fee to Sony/NS/Nintendo. > PC Gamers are the only ones interested in having less copy-protection BZZZT!! Programmers and developers would rather have less copy protection as their programming job becomes a lot easier *and* their sales would be higher. > PC Gamers are the only ones interested in still being able to use > their PC for games and not being forced to use consoles No-one is being forced to use consoles. > PC Gamers are the only ones interested in having innovation cause they > are the ones actually playing the game All gamers like innovation, whether they play consoles or PCs. > Its PC Gamers that have the passion And devs and programmers are just doing it because they are bored? > For god sake I'm just another PC Gamer like millions around the world God help us if there actually millions of them out there like you. -- Marcel
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Marcel Beaudoin <marcel....@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure Subject: Re: "A Quick Guide for a Supportive PC Gamer" Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg Date: 17 Mar 2007 18:06:18 GMT Lines: 46 Message-ID: <Xns98F68F7B81487mbeausympaticoca@130.133.1.4> References: <cirkv2ton4sqepamvbrmgf722l6po7btaa@4ax.com> <eablv2pu5qopdhnurpa5fqfigmp4uu0o2v@4ax.com> <maonv2t9ec04t5jbb2i748smeck0gtbefl@4ax.com> X-Trace: individual.net mOC5BPoijf/7MsaDhg3L/wHckDU+icPu5cD5yWHnIYIDK/LWL9 User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 X-real-email: mb...@sympatico.ca X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000724-1, 16/03/2007), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit