Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Robert_Swan@scee.net (Robert Swan) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Where do we go from here? Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 14:54:53 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 46 Message-ID: <38b544ff.19209129@www.netyaroze-europe.com> References: <38ab5135.126831333@news.playstation.co.uk> <88ti5g$ad3@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <$N4puDAb1os4Eweh@trsoft.demon.co.uk> <88ugjf$3942@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <38b54835.648851278@news.playstation.co.uk> <38b3ddf1.12907334@www.netyaroze-europe.com> Reply-To: Robert_Swan@scee.net NNTP-Posting-Host: mailgate.scee.sony.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:22:48 +0000, Tony Ross wrote: >Next time you take something back to a shop to complain Rob remember >that when the guy says there is nothing he can do for you then just >leave with no argument. That is an inaccurate analogy. A better one would be buying a pair of trousers that have a sign on them saying 'these are ripped - so no complaints' and then taking them back to the shop and saying 'but these are ripped' :) And if you met me you'd find how angry I do get at companies that don't fulfill their own promises/ standards - which sony hasn't done. >A 10p donation for every copy of OPM which carried a Yaroze game would >have easily provided the cash for prizes and new tools and the gamers >get a complete game for 10p. > >I'm sure that the PlayStation owners would not begrudge us this. >What about an OPM campaign to save Yaroze (poll the readers). and then what - sony has finished the yaroze project. Lets be realistic about the Yaroze - there are probably about 20 people still working on them that might get something done. If there were 200 or 2000 then things might be different. There is a salient point in that even when the Fame Game was running, often there was nothing offered to be put on the cover. Basically, we wernt producing enough to make it worthwhile, and nothing has changed now. In fact its probably got worse. >If the Yaroze access card had allowed us to use a modified boot CDR then >we never would have had all of this trouble anyway. but they didnt. You might as well complain that sony were nasty by making people chip their machines to be able to play backups :) Its just something they did. Rob Disclaimer: Anything I say has no direct relation to where I work (Sony), is not an official voice of where I work (Sony) and Sony doesn't even exist as far as I'm concerned.