🚀 go-pugleaf

>Judging by the mail I recieved, bad disks are a big problem.

Not really, at least not in my experiences.

>This defensiveness makes me think that it really will take
>legislation to solve the problem.

I don't think people are defensive, it is just that most people don't throw
a hissy fit when they get a bum disk, they return it and get a good one
without any fuss or bother to anyone, especially to those of us in network 
land.  And legislation on this would be pretty stupid.

>That is just the kind of attitude that is
>eroding public enthusiasm for home computers.

I don't think public enthusiasm for home computers is eroding at all, I think
it is just the opposite, I think that enthusiasm for them is growing all
the time.
I think that it is your kind of attitude that would discourage interest
in computers.

>Their documentation
>was bad too--in particular it didn't describe what was actually
>happening on my screen.

Are you sure you read it?  I thought it was some of the better documentation
around.

> A bug surfaced in the very first city I ran ...

So. There are very few programs out there today that run absolutely flawlessly.

>But it is the childish simplicity and baby-talk interface
>that really turned me off.  I would never have known that this
>thing was aimed at not so bright high-school age kids or lower 
>from the reviews I read.  

Guess what the largest market for computer games is...
You shouldn't have to be a computer scientist to play a game,even if
it is a simulation.

>Well, I got a disk that worked, but I should have got my money back.

You should be paying us to have to put up with your bitching and moaning...

Nuff Said...

-Scott Morgan
-A poor little not so bright Applied Math/CS student at CMU who
happens to think that SimCity is a very cool game, and very well done.

P.S. Merry Christmas