Perturabo
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I just wish that most developers had the love for their profession that was so obvious in those old games. Most games nowadays make so many compromises in order to release a little earlier............... ends taking a great game and making a so-so game.
I think that the point of "greed" is to bring back the times when doing great games without many compromises. Problems start when people pay 90$ and can't play the game normally for a month because of CTDs.
But speaking about greed...
I think there are two kinds of greed - good greed and bad greed.
Good greed motivates people to hard work, creativity, learning, etc. It's a good thing.
Then there's bad greed that motivates people to lie, cheat, steal, manipulate, disrespect customer/worker rights, etc. just to get more money.
That bad greed really pisses me off. For example claiming that a game (which doesn't have a demo) has "Accurate and realistic modern equipment modelling" when it doesn't have mechanics for modern equipment like ATGMs, reactive armour, composite armour, night vision, AA weapons, etc. even worse, when weapons data is unrealistic and sometimes completely doesn't make sense.
Claiming "Accurately depicts modern tactical warfare and its challenges" when it doesn't include characteristic elements of modern warfare like presence of civilians on battlefields and enemy units that blend into civilian population, IEDs, night fighting. Hell, when a game from these series that has these features is released to military before the release of the game marketed like that, there's certainly something wrong with that statement.
But even with these features, it's impossible to accurately depict modern tactical warfare without investing into creating a command & control and friendly fog of war systems like in PoA2 and enemy AI that actually provides some of the challenges of modern warfare that the game is supposed to accurately depict.
This really pisses me off, lying to customers and unfair competition (attempting to sell a game with invented features that aren't in game while other people worked hard to actually implement these features), more when a developer and publisher don't see anything wrong with their lies and continue to lie even after being called out on their bullshit.
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ORIGINAL: Perturabo
So, the Microprose game prices have doubled around 1986 and old games were sold at the same prices as when they were sold even to 6 years before? Interesting stuff. I guess they always sold full versions of the games.
I wish it would be possible to classics like Fallout in full version for an old price nowadays.
Have you checked out Good Old Games yet?
They've got a bunch of older games legally re-released with the publishers/developers brought on board, with almost all of the games working in XP and Vista. Fallout is $5.99.  http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout
Except that they aren't selling in full version. They are selling just the program. Here is how a full version of Fallout 2 looks like. Here is how a full version of Baldur's Gate looks like.
< Message edited by Perturabo -- 7/25/2010 10:23:44 PM >
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