disd@hubcap.UUCP (Gary Heffelfinger) (10/17/88)
From article <1368@neoucom.UUCP>, by wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew): > > Finally, I do agree with JP that the code wheel is a dorky idea. True, but it's not as dorky as banging floppy drive heads around. > It seems dumb to have a code wheel on some commodity software like > a game. Yeah, but you know, there is one code wheel that's kinda cute. It may be irrational, but I think that it fits into the game better than other wheels do. "Rocket Ranger" uses a secret decoder wheel to calculate the amount of fuel needed to make a trip. It's a very simple wheel to use, (even drunken partygoers could handle it ;-) and I'm not as offended by it as I am by the one that EA uses with F18. [Note that I don't own this game and I haven't spent hours playing it so I could be full of sh*t.] > Games are cheap enough (or ought to be) that one might as > well buy it, rather than pirating it. In these days of computer Harumph! Not to get into the age old pirating argument, but a fellow worker of mine, who is not poor, has boxes and boxes of stolen software for his Apple ][. It doesn't have much to do with cost. He could've easily afforded the software that he actually uses. He's just collecting it. Sort of, "He who dies with the most floppies, wins." Actually, I do agree with you, but for different reasons. It's much nicer to have the game with all the docs and the trappings that usually come with it. Though, I don't think that I buy them because they are cheap enough. EA's games are expensive, and it pains me fund their silly protections schemes, but a good number of the EA games that I've bought have given me my money's worth. F18 (despite the wheel), Formula One, Bard's Tales I & II. I'm willing to pay a little extra because I know I'm getting a little extra. In short, I pay for games because I like to reward good programmers, and because it's nice to have any little extras that come along with in the box. Gary -- Gary Heffelfinger - Not speaking for Clemson Univ. (ISD) uucp: ... !gatech!hubcap!disd inet: disd@hubcap.clemson.edu ---=== Amiga. The computer for the best of us. ===---