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- From: labdg@emory.edu (Diego)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: UW2 Arrghhhh!!
- Message-ID: <1822@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 11:23:36 GMT
- Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- You know, I've always considered myself a patient person, but
- Origin's disks really drive me crazy (you'd think they warehouse
- the #$%^ things next to a giant magnet). I just went through 3
- different copies of UW2 from two different stores and EACH and
- EVERY one had a botched up disk one (DOS crc errors & sector not
- founds when trying to install or back up). Finally I returned it
- and went for a nice battlechess on cd-rom (no chance of bad floppy
- there ;-). The sad part is, many if not most of my other Origin
- games seem to have come on disposable disks as well. My original
- Ultima Underworld disks went bad after 6 months, while my first set
- of Wing Commander I disks were completely dead on arrival (as were
- the next four sets I tried), and my Wing Commander II disks died
- about 4 months after purchase (good thing for the cd-rom edition!).
-
- So, what gives?! I've bought all of the above at various common
- stores in Atlanta, GA (not bob's discount no-name reseller in
- the far east somewhere) and I doubt that ALL of these stores have
- bad merchandise handling practices. Moreover, other companies
- software seems to have a much lower rate of failure as far as I can
- tell.
-
- *Flame off*
-
- So, I think perhaps I'll try the NEXT shipment of UW2 disks they
- get here.
-
- -Regards,
- -Diego Gallina (labdg@unix.cc.emory.edu)
-