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"EV" <andy@eclipsevision.nospam.co.uk> Blessed us with
news:c6r842$73k$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk:
> For heavens sake the game costs 40ish quid - and almost half
> that if you go and buy it online from Amazon or sumone.. Get a
> life and pay to play - people like you sicken me. Why? cos i'm a
> programmer - its my job - okay not games but it is the same
> thing - If sombody ripped me off I would be out to stick a hot
> poker up thier arse! Play fair and pay to play.
I both agree and disagree with you here! When a software company
charges a resonable price for their software I agree with you but
when they charge more for their software than you did for your
computer I DON'T and I would like to track those software companies
down an shove a hot poker in their asses for two reasons. 1) They
charge unreasonable prices for their products and 2) they don't make
past versions of it free or at least at an affordable price for
everyone! For instance look at the price of Adobe Photoshop they
have raised the price even on their new version of Photoshop CS to
$649! that's OUTRAGEOUS! it's almost as much as I paid for a PC,
17 inch monitor, printer, sound system, etc etc and they didn't
make Photoshop 7 (the previous version before CS) affordable to
everyone!. I would happily pay $40 for Photoshop just to make
textures for UT with and I don't make any money doing that but
I won't pay $649 for *ANY* piece of bullshit software! and I
won't use it either!.
--
J
"Best?? Only a fool will assume they're the best."
Mr.K