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>>Next question....why the hell is this at Hawaii?? Hawaii has nothing
>>to do with ICR2. Can't Sierra afford a web site any more?
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I think you are on to something here. The fact is, they renigged on
Rick Genter's promise (supported by the comments of one other old-days
Papyrus guy, if I heard correctly), that the new CD would be available
to us for a mailing fee. Now Sierra supposedly wants $15 dollars AND
the old CD. I don't want to give up my old CD: >>>I don't trust the
new one!!!!<<<! It may be worse than the old one, as is apparently
worse that the patched DOS version 1.0.2. And $15 dollars isn't a
mailing fee- it is the going price for most of Sierra's products in
the Sierra Bargain bins at Walden Software and CompUSA, you know, the
older stuff sold without the manuals or packaging. $5 and the front
cover of the manual should be plenty for sierra to keep the promise.
What do they care. I imagine they'll care a whole lot more about
looking better with NASCAR2, since NASCAR is probably the reason they
bought the Papyrus to begin with. ICR2 is a drop in the bucket, for
those relatively few of us that love that sort of racing too.
This is a rational reason for why it may have been released on Hawaii.
My first impulse was/is to think that is was just another way to wring
a few cents out of us, insult-to-injury, but I suppose it is possible
that it is a rebellious kick from tethered but formerly great company.
I don't blame Papyrus, they'd proved themselves for many years, and
even ICR2, for all of it's head and heart- aches, shows lots and lots
of loving, intense effort at something they believed in.
From what I understand, even Sierra doesn't own Sierra- my local
software store guy says they got bought by a local CT company, one in
which the CEO didn't even know how to run a game on a computer, had to
be shown after-the-takeover what the product actually is.
