GA should be ashamed

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

I downloaded it at about 10:20 or so PST (pretty much right at release time), and after about only 4 or 5 tries to get through it came in at 205 k/s > 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

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> 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 > ____________________________________________

What difference does it make? Most of us will still have to wait until tomorrow to get the demo anyways! I've been trying for an hour and a half, this is ridiculous!

Not sure why anyone is ***ing at you. You have done everything right as far as I can tell. kind of funny though that your receiving death threats over this. -- Kevin Anderson ICQ # 6769389

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> 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

If that is true, than the guys at EA sports are not very considerate. They pissed a couple of people with Nascar Revolution. One would think they would be nice to gamers for a change. Come on: what were they thinking? Gave exclusive rights to a demo everybody was looking forward too. It's obvious to me that this would cause a problem. People predicted that days before. Maybe it's a marketing stunt. If that's the case, then I don't get it. Philster

Do you also see black CIA helicopters following you around?

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 . . .

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>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.

And I have thanked every person that has corrected me, and I thank you. Don't be so touchy. There are far, far worse things to complain about in this newsgroup. -Larry > 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

No sweat :) -Larry

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> 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