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Matrix Games available at EB? - 11/14/2002 11:59:25 PM   
Monkeybutt

 

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Status: offline 		While surfing the coming soon list at EB,I came across this... http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/categories/products/product.asp?pf_id=231893 .

Is this true or an EB screwup? If it's true,congrats on getting EB to stock your games!
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- 11/15/2002 8:52:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		This is not offical yet. Once it is we will let you all know.

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- 11/15/2002 10:10:43 PM   
Monkeybutt

 

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- 11/17/2002 8:14:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		I hope if the game goes into stores, they include a printed manual instead of the cheesy PDF file.

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- 11/17/2002 11:17:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Is this going tobe in stores?

If so ill browbeat customers into buying it.

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- 11/18/2002 7:59:47 AM   
Ross Moorhouse


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- 11/24/2002 4:46:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		Also showing up on Gamestop! for $49.99 on 11/25. Published by Tri-Synergy. Hope there is a printed manual!

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- 11/24/2002 5:48:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		Look on Matrix's home page. I saw something there about some sort of agreement with Kinkos Printing to facilitate these PDF Manuals into a printed format.
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- 11/24/2002 6:05:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jim1954
[B]Look on Matrix's home page. I saw something there about some sort of agreement with Kinkos Printing to facilitate these PDF Manuals into a printed format.
:D [/B][/QUOTE]

And we know for a fact that some people have used this service to print out the manual.

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- 11/24/2002 6:11:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		Aye, I saw that, and that's a really good idea. But if they are going to go retail and sell a wargame over-the-counter for 50 bucks, it had better have a first-class printed manual, or there will be a lot of unhappy campers. Brand new 50 dollar games with a cheesy, cheap-jack PDF file for a manual, don't cut it in the land of the big PX.

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- 11/24/2002 9:54:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Brand new 50 dollar games with a cheesy, cheap-jack PDF file for a manual[/QUOTE]

I wonder if you dealt with the major advantages of PDF at all. Otherwise you wouldn´t call it cheesy and cheap-jack. You get flack these days if you do not go PDF.

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- 11/24/2002 10:00:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Marc Schwanebeck
[B]

I wonder if you dealt with the major advantages of PDF at all. Otherwise you wouldn´t call it cheesy and cheap-jack. You get flack these days if you do not go PDF. [/B][/QUOTE]


I prefer .pdfs and I am hardly alone. With a .pdf I can print things in fonts I want at sizes I want and even annotate notes.

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- 11/25/2002 9:22:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm glad you like them. (PDF files) I guess someone was bound too. But I guarantee you this, They don't put a PDF file on the CD in place of a printed manual because of customer demand, they do it because it's cheaper. So I stand by "cheesy and cheap-jack".
Although I will still buy the game and a manual from Kinko's, it's still my opinion that a $50 game should already have a printed manual.

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- 12/10/2002 12:02:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		Just an update,I was at my local EB today and they had both Uncommon Valor and the Starships game on the shelf for sale.

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Comments... - 12/12/2002 8:40:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		FWIW, since we had to re-do the packaging and make a new production run for the retail stores, the CD does include v2.0 and a new printed introductory manual by Jim Cobb (not the full one, which is still included as a .PDF).

For those who already have UV, the DocCenter link from our main page has some extremely affordable options for getting a printed manual and of course the new versions simply are a matter of spending the time to download the updates. :)

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