Re: The Current Retail Pc-Rpg Scene : Can It Get Any Worse ?

In article <kb61a3psg7usn12qeartsss9invpdk6in9@xxxxxxx>,
zaghadka@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:21:42 +1000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, Nostromo
wrote:
Yeah, but what gave them the right to release *1.0*? <G>

See my other post. I think we're all seeing eye-to-eye here. The practice is
nearly universal, it is killing the industry, and we are all sick of being beta
testers.


As long as we insist on being able to run games on whatever [even within
a "limited" range] hardware and software we choose, we agree to a social
compact which requires us to put more effort into running and playing
our games than is required of console kiddies. The *price* of our
Freedom is, to some extent, to be willing to *pay* for it. And since we
don't appear to be willing to pay *more $*, we must perform ourselves
the work that 'more $' would have bought the publishers.

I'm willing to deal with bugs I can patch as the price for the *ability*
to mod and patch my games.

--arioch
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