From: | Max Rible <slothman@*********.ORG> |
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Subject: | Re: SR 3rd Ed. CD-Rom |
Date: | Thu, 3 Jul 1997 15:02:53 -0800 |
>>1. FASA is a gaming company, not a software company. Writing a custom
reader
>> is *waaay* far away from their line of work, and would require an
amount of
>> investment that would make a CD-ROM project completely unprofitable.
>You think they might be able to throw it down the hall to FASA Interactive?
> Gee...
I'd completely forgotten about FASA Interactive :-) but the reason stands:
a good viewer is still not a trivial thing to write.
>Not past the point of 1 CD-Rom, that truly would be pathetic. Do we really
>care about people shipping it around the net once it is cracked? I would
>just as soon it be larger and harder to pirate, to discourage people from
>doing it.
>Why do you think companies put FMV on games? Its not to make money, its to
>discourage piracy.
They could include very high resolution artwork for a similar effect.
"300dpi made it not fit on one CD-ROM? OK, drop it down to 150dpi..."
>>Laser printing costs a fair amount of money; so does Xeroxing. If you use
>>the PDF documents to create paper output, it'll probably run you about as
>>much money as it costs to buy the sourcebook by the time you have a stable
>>binding attached to the paper.
>I'm not sure about most places, but all the schools here, including the
>university, let you print as much as you like on paper as long as you
>provide the paper. Binding? Three ring hole punch it and throw it into a
>binder. Alot of the time I find my net.books are easier to navigate than
>proper books.
At UCSB, we had to pay for laser printer usage, and when I took a huge
stack of Plastic Warriors stuff over to the copy shop to Xerox from 2 pages->
2 sides of 1 page, it ran me around $80. Unless you've got a very delicate
touch, you'll find the three hole punched paper tends to rip very easily.
I consider binders a great deal more inconvenient than standard FASA
sourcebooks,
and am very glad I picked up SR2 in hardcover when it was out...
>I probably have pretty close to that much in SR stuff already.
Anyways,
>I'm done with this thread. The chances of FASA doing a CD are so remote it
>isn't worth bickering over, since we obviously see things from a different
>end of a spectrum.
*shrug* How will we know if it's remote or not? R. Talsorian is going to
be doing some CD-ROMs, and TSR already did one. We'll have to see.
Meanwhile,
it can't hurt to let them know there's at least *some* market for it.
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