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From: mogames@aol.com (MoGames)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: APOLOGIES from APCi CEO - Kevin Sawyer
Date: 9 Aug 1994 23:10:06 -0400
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Just a few days ago, after working 18-hour days over the weekend then
working nearly a 30-hour shift, I jumped into the ol' newsgroups and
flamed
the Hell out of college students and liberals. There are no excuses, but
let
me direct my feelings in a more understandable way.
First of all, while my opinions DO happen to match those of my employees,
they do not necessarily reflect the attitude of APCi. We have spent hours
and dollars to the tune of several thousand of each developing and testing
one of the most anxiously awaited products to enter the online services
industry. Nonetheless, there are still those people out there in
somewhere
in cyberland who would rather bitch and moan and rant and rave then
comment and compliment. We have spent way too many hours online
and on our 1-800 line re-reading the help documentation to users who
refused to do it themselves. And all over FREEWARE!
Most of the reason that I was up for nearly 30 hours that day was because
of idiots, mostly college students, who had the gall to call and complain
because they couldn't play at 2400, or because we didn't have a 1-800 line
to our BBS / test site, or because they couldn't get the "cheats" to work
while in network DOOM, or because they can't get their patched WAD files
to work (trying to get tons of weapons in E1M1 at startup), and the stupid
list goes on and on. I guess the thing that really pissed me off was that
ALL of these topics and more are covered in the help or in really large
lettering on our BBS menus.
Next, I decided to jump into IRC #DOOM to tell players about the test
site.
I was immediately flamed once again because the call to our BBS is long
distance! Then I was asked what the price of the server software would
be, and when I told them that I did not know as of yet, I was very
promptly
informed that..."it [the APCiMPGS] had damn well better be f**king free,
because you [APCi] have no g**damn right to charge anyone to play net
DOOM." These winners were all college students. The same ones
that post in this newsgroup saying that DOOM should be FREEWARE.
The same ones that post in this newsgroup that are offended because
the guys at id Software drive exotic sports cars.
Well, that's how it all happened. I've learned to avoid email altogether
after
a long shift, and especially after such negative experiences. If I
offended
you, I hope you are one of the jerks that had it coming! If you aren't,
then
I apologize very sincerely. If you still don't want to use APCi FREEWARE
in rebellious response, I still believe it to be your unfortunate loss.
If I ever flame in this group again, it will be very carefully directed.
And even
then, if I offend the wrong people, I will quickly apologize. However,
don't
expect me to cut one inch of slack to the idiots and freeloaders who are
constantly looking for ways to screw those of us who are working hard to
make the world a great place to be.
Kevin Sawyer
President/CEO
Applied Personal Computing, Inc.
O'Fallon, IL USA