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Article #170Re: Survey: Do you wait to buy games until they are patched?
From: Mark Scott
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 00:00
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I wait, but not for patches. I usually wait until either A) the price goes down to a more affordable level, through a sale or simple price drop, or B) I just cannot wait any longer to purchase a highly popular game. I cannot remember the last time I bought a game over $30, though. Mark This message not Y10k compliant. Discard in 8,000 years. Ystbybtatr wrote: > Well, I usually wait until a game has been out for about 6 months before I > buy it. The exceptions were: FS 2000 PRO, RCT, and UT, which I bought > within the first couple of months of being released. And, of course, I > bought The Sims on the day of it's release :-) Does this help your survey? > > -- > Ystbybtatr > > Brian H. <bh1234@my-deja.com> wrote in article > <8cjjfn$ci5$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... > > I'm just interested to know. Are you those who will wait for the games > > to be patched before you pay to buy them? > > > > I am one of these people because I found this is a pattern. Developers > > release games and then a few weeks later they'll release patches. And > > I found that the experience of facing bugs in unpatched games are very > > discouraging. > > > > -- > > Brian. > > Human beings can send to bh1234.nospam@nospam.please.ismart.net. > > Spammers can send to bh1234@my-deja.com because I never use it. > > > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > > Before you buy. > >
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