The harm that software pirates do

Custmcom · #1 February 24th, 2001, 06:09 AM

quote:
Originally posted by nmoppa:
SE IV is, as far as I know, the ONLY game that is not distributed through shops ( perhaps besides Stars!).

No, it's not the only game that is not sold in stores. Another that comes immediately to mind is Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord. CM, by the way, is probably the best computer war game ever made to date. Not only that, but it has support that is unmatched by any big game companies. CM and SE4 are two of the best games to be released in the Last year, both have excellent support, both are made by very small operations, and niether is available in stores. Are we seeing the beginning of a trend here? We can only hope so.

pathfinder · #2 February 24th, 2001, 12:25 PM

What CustomC said...

only games I fool with these days are CM and SEIV.

every other game I messed with in the past year is abandonware within weeks of publishing....

Ubik · #3 February 24th, 2001, 06:16 PM

Well, I fully agree with you... As far as I am concerned 98% of the games released are just crap. But I also play Rowan's Battle of Britain (good blend between flight sim and stategy game), X-Tension (a game in the line of the old ELITE), Europa Universalis (very good strategy game set between the XIV and XVII centuries, where you play one of the 8 major powers in Europe). I am also a big fan of an old tactical game called Steel Panthers
(you can dowload it for free at www.matrixgames.com)
I must say I also enjoy Heroes of Might and Magic III... although the real breakthrough wass in the first of the series the others are just more of the same...

raynor · #4 February 24th, 2001, 08:19 PM

Is X-Tension out yet? Or, maybe it's out in Europe but we'll have to wait another six months until it's out int the States?

Here's the website I found that said it won't be out for another 167 days.
http://xtension.beyondthefrontier.com/beyond.html

Do y'all know if Combat Mission has an AI? Or, is it strictly human vs. human?

Thanks.

Ubik · #5 February 24th, 2001, 08:39 PM

I heard the game was already released in the States not the add on for X-Beyond the frontier, but the full X-Gold package.

you can always go to www.egosoft.com and order it from them!

CM has AI.

pathfinder · #6 February 24th, 2001, 08:52 PM

CM most definitely has an AI...

Sirkit · #7 February 24th, 2001, 10:24 PM

I wish we could convince MM to allow people to buy and then download the game off the net, I mean I've been waiting for 2 and a half weeks, I would kill for a downloadable Version that I could just burn onto a cd. It would be soooooooo nice! Give me a downlaodable Version and send me your custom CD and such in the mail so I don't have to wait so long to play.