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From: ellisje@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (BlackShroud)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Stuck in Map 2 Doom][
Date: 3 Sep 1994 15:01:49 -0600
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <34ao7t$p43@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
References: <344c2p$2br@uuneo.neosoft.com> <344hvg$k4v@hermes.unt.edu> <CvHLnD.4rt@usa.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsu.colorado.edu
In article <CvHLnD.4rt@usa.net>, Gene Miller <genem@cscns.com> wrote:
>Barry Bloom (barry@jove.acs.unt.edu) wrote:
>
>: Pirate scum. Your sys-admin will be informed. Beware all, I will become
>: net.cop around piracy issues. If you have a legal pre-release version, I
>: suggest you not talk about it.
>
>: --
>: barry@noc.unt.edu
>: DOOM FTP ADMIN infant2.sphs.indiana.edu /pub/doom
>: --
>
>Living proof that that, even more so than the unemployment issue in
>America, we need to get these people lives!
>
>I don't mean to be rude. I don't have a copy, don't want one, don't
>really care about Doom at all. I'm waiting for Quake hoping it will be
>more than Doom. In my opinion, with today's technology, there should be
>games that are much more realistic than Doom. anyways, if I were
>planning on getting Doom, I probably would grab it from someone before
>buying it. I'm sure most wouldn't, or who knows, maybe they would, but
>regardless, that's what I would do. Why order this game only to get it
>home after spending $40 and having it suck, then find out it can't be
>returned. I don't think so. If you buy a VCR and don't like it you can
>return it. Why not software? If that was the case, I'd go out and buy
>stuff and try it out that way. But I bought Terminator Rampage, and it
>sucks. I took it back, with the receipt, and they told me I was
>basically stuck with it. SoI sold it for $15 when I spent $40 on it. Is
>this right? I don't think so. I'm not doing that again. I will pirate
>any software that I'm interested in, and if I like it, I'll buy it. If
>not, I'll delete it and be none the poorer for it. Why should I support
>shitty software companies? Is that my job? I don't think so.
>
>Jus' mine own opinion.
>
>-Gene
>
I've never shopped at a computer store where you couldn't return a game
if it sucks, unless you don't have the registration card that came with
it.