Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "George Bain" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Where do we go from here? Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 08:42:10 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 39 Message-ID: <88ti5g$ad3@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <38ab5135.126831333@news.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailgate.scee.sony.co.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 I personally agree. I think this e-mail pretty much sums it up. George Steven Osman wrote in message news:38ab5135.126831333@news.playstation.co.uk... > Tony, > > I'm sorry, but I really have to disagree with your email entirely. > Please don't take offense to what I write. > > First of all, the fact that the OPM stuff was even there, was an added > bonus, not a requirement. Nowhere in the agreement did it mention > that you stuff would be considered for anything like that. The fact > that they did, was cool of them in the first place. > > Secondly, you do not have a professional dev. kit. You have a kit > which entitles you to write games to run on your specific kit, and > those of other NY members. Sony is/was under no obligation to make > your disk playable to everyone else. > > I think that we're all dreaming pipe dreams if we think Sony will > press discs for us. It costs money, it takes time, and really isn't > worth their while. > > If you think that Sony will have anything to do with chipped systems, > you've really got something else coming! > > Finally, regarding the "termination" of Net Yaroze, if memory serves > me well, we were all entitled to only one year membership, to be > renewed annualy. I don't remember paying any renewal fees myself. We > really do have to come to grips with the fact that with PS2 coming > out, the emphasis will shift away from the old PSX. > > Steven > p.s. I'm bracing for the flames that this message has earned me.