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Originally posted by Peter Gilis:
What i mean is, such problem can have a solution. Depending the tax for phone calls you need to pay, how much can cost a dial-up Connection just for 5-15 seconds? I don't know how much times you re-start a bgame you are playing during a day, so i just thought was something like one or two times per day. That's not too much to me, but i can be wrong.Someone else (can't remember who) said another solution is: instead turn off the PC, we can keep the VM-game running and put the PC in Stand-By. That way we can play even in our Lap-Top during a trip. If we will need to use the CD-ROM, we can to turn-off just the music and voice from the VM-Game.
If we really want/need to play just off-line, them the Patch can help. That's why i told we need to convince G-Col to give us this VM-patch soon.
As for your complaints, i was not desconsiderating. I just think we all have much more to loose if the piracy don't stop and maybe, MAYBE, VMate can make it happens. I really hope so, otherwhise all this ruckus were for nothing and G-Col is fated to doom.
First of all
what patch, you speak of it as if it were a given? The one they promised within a year of release, the one they promised within a year of final sale or the one that JAST and others said could be out that is somewhere in between those two? Which patch do you mean? The latest promise of one sounds vague enought to mean they can say they never will give one.
Second of all, riddle me this one, why should anyone be forced to pay more money each time they want to play a game they have bought just so they can play the game? That is in effect your solution (oh just spend some more money it's change really). Yeah and change adds to dollars eventually.
Running it in the background is not practical either especially if you take it to school or go on a business trip.
If GC is fated to doom then this ruckus still was for something as those of us against VM did warn them, did predict that as a possible outcome, and yet they still march ahead, perhaps right into the cannon fire.
As to much more to loose to piracy perhaps and perhaps not, it depends on how much there is, once again what makes up the Japanese market versus this one where they say so much more happens, if this is a much larger market in terms of people then no kidding more happens, more people more chance for this stuff to happen. They are a danger but in truth the companies have more to lose then the customers, unless you count the companies demise as a loss then yes that is something major.
[This message has been edited by SCDawg (edited 10-29-2004).]