Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: The end ? Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 17:45:40 -0500 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 21 Message-ID: <36DC6A14.D6A1FA33@datasys.net> References: <36D6ED41.3B806C4E@cwcom.net> <01b9e5e0$0de5d380$ac82a6c3@gareth> Reply-To: darco@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 348.dialup.datasys.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; U) Gareth wrote: > > I feel grateful to be part of one of the greatest gestures of video games > history, the Net Yaroze, but equally upset that no sooner have I joined > than I find out the project is being scrapped. > > Okay, so maybe scrapped isn't quite the right word because were gonna have > support from Sony and each other (what about CodeWarrior?) but it still a > black day. > You're right, scrapped isn't the right word. I came to the same rash conclusions as well when SCEA ran out of units, but they were unfounded and I caused some undue anexiety among the SCEA member pool. The truth is that there is no reason to think that sony is scrapping the program... They probably only made 3 batches of black units(One batch for each territory), and when they run out then it's no more new members - Not the apocolyptic doom that we fear. 'Darco