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- From: nudd@zikzak.apana.org.au (Nai Ying Kwok)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: three-sixty is gone :-(
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 08:44:29 +1100
- Organization: Zikzak public access UNIX, Melbourne Australia
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- aq722@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John Gregor) writes:
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- >In a previous article, Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) says:
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- >>If Psygnosis isn't a major game company, then what does that make
- >>Three Sixty who has about 20 employees? I don't know how many are
-
- >No, Psygnosis isn't a major game company and probably never will be. And
- >it doesn't have anything to do with how many people work there.
-
- >Psygnosis is not a major game company because their games don't work.
- >Period. I have bought 4 Psynosis games. The number of these games work
- >work AT ALL on my system: zero. 0. Zippo. None. My system isn't even
- >very fancy - its basically stock. They refused to do anything about it,
- >such as send me a working copy of their games. They refused to refund my
- >purchase price.
-
- >Contrast this with three-sixty, which sold me a game with a few problem,
- >and then, when I called their support number, mailed me a bug fix by 2nd
- >day airmail the very same day I called, and all this BEFORE i had even
- >returned the registration card. The new patched version fixed the problem
- >I had. Plus, they produce games like Harpoon. Any old company can produce
- >junk like SOTB - flashy graphics, horribly playability, simplistic arcade
- >games. But a simulation of the depth of Harpoon is not something just any
- >old company can crank out.
-
- >That is why psygnosis is not a major game company. They do not seem to
- >have the ability to produce games which run, nor do they fix their bugs
- >when I complain that they sold me defective software. Instead, all their
- >products crash.
-
- >I'll buy anything 360 puts out, and I'll never again buy antoher Psygnosis
- >product. Psygnosis seems to have taken their clue from all those Euro-game
- >writers who make games that only run on a single floppy 512K A500, and
- >nothing else.
-
- Are you running this in Pal mode? And what do you expect when Psygnosis is
- an European company and has to sell to the European market, which has
- millions of .5 meg 500s with only one disk drive?
-
- Now that the 1200 is selling basically as fast as they can push those
- little beasties out and demand is ever-increasing I am sure they will do
- something about it.
-
- BTW I have a stock A500 1.3 roms, 2 disk drives, A590 52 mb Quantum with 2 meg
- fast and a further .5 fast in the trapdoor and I have not had any problems
- with psygnosis games, my experience of which has been SOTB and SOTB II.
- And didn't Psygnosis do the distribution of Lemmings by DMA??
-
- NY
-
- >JG
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