rec.autos.simulators

> This exclusive rights to Sports Car GT for the first 24 hrs is pure greed. Get
> as many hits as possible for the advertiser dollars.  While I do not object to
> making a buck, this dam the public stuff should be repaid. I for one will never
> visit the GA website again, and I urge any one else who suffered thru  the
> ridiculous down load speeds and denied access to join me in the boycott.
> Personally I waited this long, I can wait till tomorrow, goodbye GA

> Have you ever thought of the fact that if it wasn't for GA
> you still would have been waiting for this demo?

> Groeten/Regards,

> ____________________________________________
> Sjon "MiXer" Stigter

> ____________________________________________
> "I think motor racing should be a dangerous sport
> because that's what makes it different from cricket
> or tennis''.

> - Stirling Moss
> ____________________________________________

> Paul,

>     EA came to me and said they are giving 24 hour rights to the demo. That
> was the terms and were un-negotiatable. I agreed to them as anyone else
> would have. I really don't understand why everyone is so upset. We even have
> them up on the 3dfiles mirrors. We were trying to do you all a favor by
> putting it on a site with multiple mirrors. If another site would have
> gotten the demo, there would have been one download location. You are
> probably the same person that sent me a death threat or the one that sent me
> a virus. It makes me sad to know that there are people that go to these
> extremes. This is about fun guys. I'm sorry if we've pissed anyone off, but
> sometimes this stuff is beyond our control and more than meets the eyes.

> With all due respect,

> --

> Tony Wyss, Editor-in-Chief
> Gamer's Alliance Sports
> www.ga-sports.com
> ---------------------------------
> Gamer's Alliance, Inc
> Site Relations Coordinator
> www.gagames.com
> --------------------------------
> "I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player" - John Kruk

> OK, I downloaded it. I don't see the big deal, the game is ok. It certanitly
> is nothing to get all worked up about. I can't understand why people are
> getting angry about not being able to DL it. If you can't DL it today, wait
> till tomorrow. It's just an arcade game.

>I was completely bummed to see it didn't have an in-car view.  Just that
>same old arcade bumper-cam crap.

>-Larry

>> OK, I downloaded it. I don't see the big deal, the game is ok. It
certanitly
>> is nothing to get all worked up about. I can't understand why people are
>> getting angry about not being able to DL it. If you can't DL it today,
wait
>> till tomorrow. It's just an arcade game.

> Larry, this makes about 12-14 times in one evening you've posted a lament
> about the lack of an in-car view in SCGT.  Besides being technically
> incorrect (you can get to a rather poorly-implemented in-car view via
> hitting F4 twice from the bumper view), why do you need to clutter the list
> with essentially a dozen more-or-less identical posts?  It does get old . .

>Don't be so touchy.  There are far, far worse things to complain about
>in this newsgroup.

> Agreed.  I was grouchy to the extreme yesterday morning (thank United
> Airlines AND Amtrak for that), and you caught a bit of it.  My apologies for
> that.

> I hereby remove my tetchy schoolmarm garb.

> DK