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From: gwharvey@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (Greg Harvey)
Subject: Re: Psygnosis Missed the Point!
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Date: 14 Jun 91 13:38:49 GMT

In <452@netxcom.netx.com> logan@netxcom.netx.com (Jim Logan) writes:

>In article <16793@darkstar.ucsc.edu> mcgowen@saturn.ucsc.edu
>(Richard McGowen) writes:
># >ATTENTION ALL GAME MANUFACTURERS!!!
># >
># >I REFUSE TO BUY ANY GAME THAT WILL NOT RUN FROM MY HARD DISK!
># >
># >I am boycotting ALL games that do not meet my standards.
># >
># 
># If I can't win, I take my ball go home. :(

>You missed the point.  Game manufacturers need people to buy
>their games, and they need to listen to what people want.  If I
>don't voice my opinion and I want to buy games, I will have to
>live with playing games from my slow floppy disk.

>To "take my ball [and] go home" is a selfish thing for a child to
>do, and it is an inaccurate analogy.   These game manufacturers
>are not playmates -- they are only in it for the money.  I'm
>telling them that through cooperation they can get MORE of my
>money without opening themselves up to piracy.

Jim may not want to be considered selfish with his money.  He
may not like to have the "I take my ball go home" applied to
him.  I, on the other hand, don't mind.  Game manufacturers
who do not service the reasonable desires of their customers
deserve to enter bankruptcy.  Given a company like Psygnosis
which produces excellent games, I would hate to have
them go, but I will not continue to buy their games should they
decide to continue the current policy.  Having bought five
from them (and deliriously happy with each...though some are
hard to play and floppy bound), at $30-50 per, I feel I
have earned the right to levy expectations on the company.

After all, if they let me use my hard disk and STILL
continue putting out good games, I'm in it for the long
haul.  I wouldn't be surprised if I were to buy every
game they produced.  And I have friends who feel the
same way...LOTS OF THEM.  We've already fought this
battle on the IBM and won.  I'm willing to fight it
on the Amiga, too.

[stuff deleted]
>(Sorry to single your game out as an example, Psygnosis, I think
>you are an EXCELLENT game manufacturer with only one annoying
>flaw!)  

I agree with Jim here, Psygnosis!  Please remove the only
obstacle to us saying you are the BEST EVER game
manufacturer.

On the other hand, Sir-Tech satisfied this criteria with
their current qame.  Guess what got bought immediately?
'Nuff said?  Money talks in a market (free or otherwise)
economy.  My money is talking....anybody listening?


--
If you get the impression I'm not qualified to speak for my company, it's
because I ain't, I can't, I don't, I won't, and I don'wanna.
Greg Harvey                    --Temporarily without mail service
Lockheed, Houston Texas        --Hope to have a PSCNI route soon! 
