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[Xaromir]

I'm not from england. But i feel honored that it seems believable,
since i learned english mostly through cartoons and pornographic movies.
(Not much dialog, so it is easy to pick up new words which makes it nice for learning a language)

I don't really know port erin, maybe i just stumbled over it somehow while registering here,
since i usually use "saint helena" as my location to register with a community i don't know.
I will edit that.
But when i say $ i mean USD.

Buying online isn't always that bad, steam is having a sale here on company of heroes 1,99€
or the "gold" version for 2,49€ - 2€ equal 2,57$ at the moment.
Actually this is the first time i've seen stuff like that,
except for amazon and ebay maybe.
But i see where you are coming from with that. 50€ for a new game?
I mean i can go to the store buy it for the same and even get a dvd box,
sometimes even a poster if i'm lucky.*

I know that there are people in between me and the publisher / developer,
but nobody can tell me that blizzard manages to put Diablo2 on the market,
for only 9 to 15€ depending on the reseller, with box and everything (including LoD).
But they can't manage to put a title on the market as a download for less than 20$?
That's way beyond making a profit.

I also don't know for sure why it never was bundled with 2 and 3, but i imagine it's because of comparability problems.
RCT worked fine under Win 9x, but i think XP wouldn't run it anymore
so it needed a patch which apparently wasn't released for quite a while.
I got a downloaded version** to run under vista
but i experienced loads of problems especially with saving,
to my knowledge there is no patch for vista and i'm not sure if/how it runs on 7.

Traditional game stores are great, but they get smaller round here or have to get closed.
Recently snatched lost vikings for the GBA for 5€ - on ebay you pay between 15 and 20€.
Seems to be relatively rare but popular - figured...

**I've worn out 3 CD's of it in the first 2 years, and didn't knew it was still available,
but it probably even wasn't at that point, i payed for it 3x and consider it to be ok,
and most people so far agree since i technically own 3 licenses.

*Remember the times when games came in huge boxes, with big booklets,
sometimes even stickers posters and other schwag?
These days i buy games just because of that to support it.
I remember the whispered world came with dice as a copy protection,
and poster with a game printed on the back to use those with,
best buy of the last years.
Trackmania United came with a t-shirt - which even back in the late 90's would have been seriously rad.
Yes - it's not important but i miss it.
I still keep my original Diablo2 handbook for nostalgic value.
And to surprise kiddies that think getting 15 page handbooks the size of a DVD box was always normal.
Back then some of them had pretty nice artwork etc in them, i should take pictures.

[Luchsen]

Originally Posted by Xaromir

RCT worked fine under Win 9x, but i think XP wouldn't run it anymore
so it needed a patch which apparently wasn't released for quite a while.

It (+ both expansions) runs for me under WinXP, but I don't know if I patched it. I only know that I edited the Windows registry to play it without CD.

[brillo1]

check out http://www.supaswap.net/ you may find it there if its an old game