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- From: Jeff_Holinski@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeff Holinski)
- Subject: Re: Black Crypt HELP!!! [PLEASE - I'm STARVING!!!!]
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:20:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <19108@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- a reply to Jarno Kokko of jarnis@mits.mdata.fi
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- >Not required - I pay only for games that are worth the cash. Black Crypt
- >was rather close to this point, but unforntunately I completed it BEFORE
- >it was available in any shops. Shame about that.... Other example of the
- >same is Amberstar... F1 GP was worth the cash. Civilization would have
- >been - but all those bugs caused it to be dropped from the list. Pinball
- >Fantasies also, but it wasn't HD installable - Pirated copy is, except
- >that it's not 100%. As soon as I can see a 100% working HD installable
- >Pinball Fantasies that works on 512kb Chip/2.5Mb Fast machine - original
- >o pirate - I will purchase it, as I play it.
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- >BAD piracy is to SELL COPIED GAMES FOR PROFIT. If I use pirated copy to
- >avoid throwing cash down the drain, that's OK by my definition. If I
- >get a pirated copy BEFORE it's available in ANY shops anywhere, I think
- >it's softco's fault that they have leaked a copy out before release.
- >If I keep a pirated copy over 10 days - in other words I find it worth
- >of playing, AND it's available somewhere, I pay for the game. If game
- >isn't available, I consider that my 'trial period' is extended up to
- >the release of the game. If I complete the game or find it to be too
- >repetitive before that, bad luck, I won't spend dosh on crap.
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- It's jerks like you that are causing software companys to pull out of the
- Amiga market. If you want to steal software fine, it's your own business as
- long as you don't try to justify it here.
- I suppose you're one of these people who goes into a restaraunt, eats a meal
- and when the bill comes you say the food wasn't good enough and you're not
- paying for it. Would you have the same attitude that a free trial is OK if
- your boss came up to you on payday and told you he didn't think you did
- enough work over the last 2 weeks and he wasn't going to pay you? "But if you
- just work a little harder MAYBE you can have a paycheck next time."
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- My guess is that you'd have a bit different attitude about "FREE TRIALS"!
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