vonSchnitter
Posts: 310
Joined: 7/2/2004 From: Germany - still Status: offline
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Hi Gents, just came home and had alook for new events on this board - like helpfull things on new findings, new errata, changes of unit mechanics by the patch etc. And whats up ? A few new threads on how shabbily Matrix treat their customers. Makes me wonder. Really. Here is my "experience": Bought the game a day or two after release - download went ok first go. Installed it, ran it without any issues - sound or whatever. Installed the first "quick fix" patches - just to follow suit. And enjoied plaing the game against the ai to learn the mechanics. Did burn a CD with the complete installs - including a txt file with the DR confirmation info on the order and serial number. Thats it. The game runs well - not a single hick up to date - and plays well without real show stoppers - in the self study department. Patches have been announced early and promises with 1.20 have been kept. Even the download of the patch 1.2 worked at the first go. I understand, that the wargaming community is different from the say flight simmulation crowd - a lot more of older ( not to say anemic) pc-systems still in use, etc. But in any case, a little common sense tells, that it pays off to do some housekeeping on a pc - esp on an older one, to keep in good shape and up to the task. And since we are in 2004 the news about the need of d/l managers to keep slow speed or just lousy and unstable internetconnections usefull should have spread a little more. To me this is a kind of non-issue. It is just a couple of users, who have not done their homework. It has nothing to do with the game or the publisher. Now for that serial number registration thing. Matrix just enforces the need to register your legal copy of a software product with them. And if you did, you have acces to the patches. This is just a kind of copy protection scheme, to deny "leaked" copy owners acces to patches. So this is - in my view - a good thing to reduce software piracy, may increase their sales, which in turn will yield better support and probably more games. It is a perfectly sound and sober business practice. Sorry to say it: But all this type of bickering and bitching is just rediculous - in my view. Cheers vonSchnitter
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Remember that the first law of motion is to look where you're going. A man with a stiff neck has no place in an airplane. Technical Manual No. 1-210, Elementary Flying, War Department, Washington,
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