>YESTERDAY LUCAS/LIGHTFORCE GAVE ME A CAPTURE FROM THE IRC-CHANNEL
>CONCERNING THE DISCUSSION BETWEEN THE CRACKING GROUPS AND THE AMIGAS
>HEALTH ...
>
>HMM.... FIRSTLY, TO DALAMAR? AND HIS GANG... DO YOU REALLY THINK
>THIS IS ENOUGH ?? - JUST WAITING 2 MONTHS BEFORE RELEASING..?
It will certainly help a little, but still not enough!
***ICARUS: DO IT!
>PAHHH! - IN MY OPINION YOU DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE SITUATION:
>
>1. NOT THE CRACKS ARE DESTROYING THE AMIGA. ACTUALLY, THERE ARE
>NOT MANY DUDES, WHO OWN AN AMIGA .. THATS THE JUMPING POINT!
Wrong, there are many amigan's LEFT, but many are almost ashamed to mention
that they have an amiga!
***ICARUS: OHHHH NOOO MY FRIEND! A LITTLE EXAMPLE: IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD
THERE ARE NO AMIGA-USERS LEFT, JUST PC-CRAP IS GOING AROUND.
BUT: 3-4 YEARS AGO, THE MOST PEOPLE OWNED AN AMIGA.
(CA. 20 DUDES...)
OKAY, THIS WAS IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD BUT SEE THIS "20 DUDES"
GLOBAL....
>
>OR DO YOU THINK IF A GAME WONT BE RELEASED, PEOPLE WILL BUY AN
>AMIGA ??? :)) OHH NOO... THE PEOPLE WANT POWER, POWER TO PLAY
>GAMES LIKE "QUACKE" ... AN THIS IS THE OTHER POINT, TOO.
>SHIT HARDWARE, NOBODY WANT IT ANYMORE, SO THERE IS NO MARKET
>FOR THE GAMES AND THIS IS WHAT THE SOFTWARECOMPANIES ARE AFRAID OF.
>
Tell me, why is a 2d AMIGA platform game (WORMS) the best game of the year
and does these 3d-POWER-HUNGRY crappy games come on the 3rth place?
***ICARUS: HMMMM..... FROM WHERE DO YOU HAVE THIS INFORMATION ..?
AN AMIGA-MAGAZINE ? :) - WORMS ISN'T THE GAME OF THE
YEAR ? - WHO SAID THIS ?!?!?!?
>HERE A LITTLE EXAMPLE:
>
>MR. B IS A PRODUCER OF THE COMPANY: "ELECTRONIC ARTS".
>MR. C IS A REPORTER OF THE AMIGA-MAGAZINE: "C U AMIGA".
>
>OKAY LETS COME TOGETHER:
>
>MR. C: "HEY, MR.B HAVE YOU HEARD THAT THE CRACKERS WONT RELEASE
> NEW GAMES ?!? .. NOW YOU CAN SELL THEM BETTER!!"
>
>MR.B: "AHH COOL - BUT THE QUESTION IS: HOW MANY PEOPLES ARE LEFT
> TO BUY THEM? "
>
>. STOP HERE!
>
>HEEHEHE.... WHAT ARE WE LEARNING FROM THIS ? -> RIGHT. THERE ARE NOT
>ENOUGH PEOPLE, WHO CAN BUY THE GAMES....
>
>EXAMPLE 2:
>
>ON PC, THERE ARE COPY-CDS, THERE ARE MANY CRACKS, TOO ETC ETC ETC..
>YES, I WILL EVEN SAY, THAT ON PC THE SOFTWARE-PIRACY IS MUCH HIGHER
>THAN ON AMIGA !!!!!!
>
>BUT - THERE ARE MANY GUYS WHO ONW A PC AND THERE A MANY GUYS WHO WANT
>TO BUY THE GAMES... :))
>
>... SO, DUDES WE (THE LIGHTFORCE, LFC) WILL RELEASE A GAME, IF WE GET
>ONE, AND I WILL WRITE INTO THE NFO-FILES: "BUY THEM BLAHBLAH..."
>
>THATS ALL I WILL DO FOR THE HEALTH OF MY BELOVED AMIGA, BECAUSE NOT WE ARE
>DESTROYING THE AMIGA, BUT THE PEOPLE WHO SELL IT...
>
>
The main issue is in the original rescue.txt is that if there are lesser fast cracks (most of them are allready cracked BEFORE hitting the stores!) the sales will go up a little bit,more games will come then and when there are enough games
people who want to play QUALITY games BUY a machine with enough games supporting it! Why did people bother buying SNES when they could buy a nice 486DX instead? Becouse SNES managed to produce a huge amount of games in a short period!
***ICARUS: NOPE, IN MY OPINION THEY ARE NOT RIGHT!!
SNES??!?! - NOW PLAYSTATION IS THE SNES OF THE FUTURE AND:
---> 3D - GAMES ! (AS ALWAYS...)
OLDER(!!) PEOPLE WHO PLAY WITH A SNES, LOVE TO PLAY 2D-GAMES!
THE OTHER ONES ARE 12-14 YEARS OLD...
FOR EXAMPLE: I LOVE TO PLAY "BUBBLE BOBBLE!" .. SO I CAN USE
A SNES... BUT THE PLAYSTATION-BUBBLE-BOBBLE IS OUT NOW AND
MUCH BETTER: YOU SEE - THIS IS AGAIN A HARDWARE CONFLICT!
^^^^^^
Furthermore, I myself have to order my games overseas which still saves me around $10 on each game i buy. Retaile-prices should LOWER and the most important thing is the fact they still produce many FLOPPY ONLY games while around 70% of the amigans i
germany OWN a CDROM and nearly 95% owns a harddisk of 120MB or bigger! SOftware companies must recognise that most amiga's are no longer 1MB/NOHD/68000 machines. a survey noted that nearly 65% of the A1200 users upgraded their ram & processor within
the 1st YEAR after purchase! There are enough powerfull
machines to justify more power-hungry games like Breathless/AB3dI+II When they
keep this in mind, there will come more software and sales will rise again which lowers prices on hardware as all mass-market products do! In the meanwhile, they can develop their next generation machines whithout seeing many users go to other platfo
ms. Buying a game once a while is cheaper than to change your platform! for a nice P160 you can buy +- 400 GAMES! .. and even can get a beer in the pub next door!
Before you guys start screaming at me to be a new lamer thinking he knows nothing of the scene, I've been around now for 8 years orso and yes i bought my games'in the past, like AB -> AB3d II, Slamtilt and many more. A nice effect from piracy is that
you can test the game before buying it (as i do!) I first play the crack, and afterwards if i really like the game, i BUY it!
***ICARUS: NO YOU AREN'T A LAMER... NOBODY IS ONE ...
YES, AND YOU ARE RIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU CAN TEST THE GAMES.. BUT IF THE GAME IS COOL AND
IF YOU'RE PLAYING IT VERY OFTEN, YOU SHOULD BUY IT!
TO ALL OTHERS OUT THERE: YOU MUST SEE A CRACK AS A
"FULL PLAYABLE PREVIEW..".
Anyway, i think the crackers should wait a few weeks with releasing after a game/software hit's the shops! what's in a time on a platform whjich was dead allready in 1985.
***ICARUS: WE DO NOT RELEASE SOFTWARE BEFORE OFFICIAL RELEASE...
YES, SOMETIMES THE GAMES ARE OUT IN THE SHOPS, BEFORE
THE CRACK-RELEASE...
PEOPLE LIKE YOU CAN HELP THE AMIGA... YOU ARE BUYING GAMES !
THIS IS, WHAT THE AMIGA NEEDS NOW... !!!!!!!!
AND THIS IS WHAT I'M WRITING IN THOSE "NFO-FILES" ...
THIS IS ALL I CAN DO.
>BUT I CAN UNDERSTAND THE PEOPLE, TOO:
>
>... WHO WANTS TO WORK OR PLAY WITH A COMPUTER, THATS HARDWARE IS
>SHIT FROM 1986 ?!?!? -> SORRY, FACE THE TRUTH!
>
>SIGNED. ICARUS/THE LIGHTFORCE 1996
Sorry pal, but i rather have good working hardware from 1986, than a penthium with a core from 1980 !
***ICARUS: YES, THAT'S TRUE, I DO NOT OWN AN PC :) .. BUT I SAID I CAN
UNDERSTAND OTHER DUDES, WHO ARE LEAVING THE AMIGA....
(BUT, THEY DO NOT SEE THE ADVANTAGES OF AN AMIGA!)
P.s. learn some better english ! .... and who the fuck are you ?
***ICARUS: NOPE I WILL NOT :) .. I KNOW MY ENGLISH IS BAD :)) WHO
CARES, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND ME !!! (->RIGHT, ZOLTIRX ?!? ;))
SORRY, YOU DO NOT KNOW ME ? - AND YOU ARE 8 YEARS IN THE
SCENE .... ?? -> MAYBE SOMETIMES IN THE WEEKENDS.. ;)
THIS IS ALL I CAN SAY TO THIS PROBLEM! - ASK AROUND AND
YOU WILL (MAYBE) FIND OUT ;)
-> Telekinetic Aka ArmageDdon Aka Destroyer from TFA since 1987 !
