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From: mag8@aol.com (Mag8)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: doom ][ and id
Date: 5 Sep 1994 16:20:02 -0400
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In article <Cvo3y2.26y@ucdavis.edu>, szschaff@chip.ucdavis.edu () writes:
>hmm...where should i start. I've heard many opinions about all the doom
][
>pirating and how it hurts companies. Well here are my 3 points.
>1.Does the fact that the id people have ferrari's say how much pirating
> the original version hurt them.
That seems irrelevant, they chose to buy Toys instead of homes, it's their
money and their business what they buy with it. Even if they were all Ross
Perots would it make it ok to steal from them? Is it ok for a homeless
person to steal from YOU cause you have more than he?
>2.It was id's fault in the first place. They leaked it.
Oh, those poor pirates, they didn't have any choice, it's all id's
fault... and society's too. In fact they should sue id for forcing them to
become low life thiefs.
>3.If id had just released a shareware version with 5-10 levels like for
>the original doom, none of this would have happened.
Maybe it wouldn't have happened if those people... and you know who you
are, darlings... had an ounce of moral correctness instead of political
correctness.
>well that was my $.02 worth, please respond
Entitled to your opinion in this country.
Personally I have had many many hours of fun with Doom, as I know
everyone else here has or we wouldn't all be here, and id has been the
most helpful cooperative game company anyone has ever seen. Why would I
want to abuse that relationship?
Anyhow, consider the piracy issue the next time you come home and someone
has stolen your personal belongings... the liberal viewpoint just doesn't
wash here. IMHO
Mark