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To all suggesting people go buy a new CD-ROM to run N4:

BRH

To all suggesting people go buy a new CD-ROM to run N4:

by BRH » Thu, 22 Feb 2001 05:43:16

Amen about the CompUSA sales staff!  Just yesterday, I heard a salesman tell a
customer that wanted to buy a hard drive that the customer would have to upgrade
from Windows 95 because Win95 didn't support drives over 2 Gigs! -- DUH.

Then he quoted him a price of $80 to install the hard drive _without_ copying the
files over.  The ironic thing was that I was there buying DriveCopy (for $30),
which does exactly what their $80 "service" does not.

CompUSA -- An uneducated consumer is their best customer.





> >> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 15:25:33 GMT, "Marc Collins"

> >> >Aside from a big raspberry...

> >> >Two questions...

> >> >1) Do you think Sierra wants to employ a copy protection scheme that
> >> >prevents potential paying customers from running their product...of
> >course
> >> >not.

> >> I think Sierra has to use stern copy-protection to -increase- the
> >> sales of their products. As the casula user copying technology
> >> increases with each new version of CloneCD, etc., they have to
> >> improve their copy-protection or lose sales.

> >Thats funny because the Warez groups I'm sure had the game out before Sierra
> >even did.  This isn't any protection they can do that will protect their
> >software.

> Note I said -CASUAL- users.

> People with net access & who visit warez sites & who know what 'usenet'
> stands for & who have the skill to download multi-part warez rips &
> then unarchive & then install those warez versions ain't casual users.
> Sierra's copy protection doesn't affect those people in the least.
> It never will.

> BTW, the last time you were at CompUSA, how many people were
> buying games there that met my definion of casual? My guess is
> over 90% of them are 'casual' users. I can guarantee you that the
> sales staff is.. :)

> That's my 2 cents.

--
Bert
Eldre

To all suggesting people go buy a new CD-ROM to run N4:

by Eldre » Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:02:12



>Actually, I am like Don.. I do not like to use my Burner to do anything but
>Burn CDs

>Think about it.. EVERYTHING has a lifespan to it.. you may not know what it
>is, but it has one. Your monitor may last for a total of 1500 hours, your
>cd-rom may work for 1000 hours before it dies.. you never know.  Anything
>can and will break eventually.  Heck, if you are unlucky.. it may have a
>life of only a few hundred hours of use.  You just never know.

>My reasoning is why should I put more wear and tear into my Burner than I
>need to? I would much rather pay $40 for a 50x cd-rom that can do all the
>grunt work at a fraction of the price and do it faster.

That's like people who buy VHS tape rewinders to save wear and tear on their
VCR.  The VCR might cost $200, the rewinder might cost $10.  Makes sense to
me...

Eldred
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with experience...
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