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Re: "Gorky 17" for MOS
« on: December 29, 2003, 09:30:08 PM »
This is taken from the FAQ at Hyperion's homepage.

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 Will Hyperion support alternative operating systems like MorphOS and AROS which target the Amiga user-base?

    The answer is simple: no. Leaving aside considerations such as IP and copyright infringement and further market fragmentation which would lead to sharply reduced sales in the Amiga market and the fact that we would need to rebuild our code-base, we want to make it clear our licenses are tied to a specific operating system, not to a specific hardware platform. If it were otherwise, we would just obtain a license for PPC and we could port for any OS running on PPC including MacOS, AmigaOS, Linux PPC, Beos etc. In reality our license agreements limit the scope of our rights to AmigaOS meaning ports for AROS and MorphOS are LEGALLY IMPOSSIBLE and would require prior re-negotiation of our license agreements. We would think it highly doubtful that large entertainment software companies would even consider this without very substantial upfront royalty payments which would be impossible to recuperate due to low sales.
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Re: "Gorky 17" for MOS
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2003, 12:27:55 AM »
@Paul_Gadd :
I'm going by the looks of it and also a few reviews which gave it fairly good score.  If you want to see titles for the Amiga, you buy the game which you like, even if it is a port and you're paying for the Amiga port. If everyone reasoned like you, there would come zero new games, since everyone would just give up and buy a PC for just about everything..  (hey, why pay for anything when you can use software on another platform?)..

From your reasoning, it almost sounds like "hey, I didn't like the game, and asking for a port or buying the game means you're cheerleaders.".

I find your post very condescending and it offends me.
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