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From: Wintermute
To: in2macz
Subject: Re: Jingle Bells...
Date:Sat, February 28, 1998 12:03 PM


<<WInter time is close...we will all be in front of our Mac more for the next few month's : )>>

yep. Ought to be nice, actually. These places have been kinda run down and empty lately :)

I'm looking forward to getting TIE fighter/Mac and X-Wing vs. TIE fighter/Mac...I was hoping for Christmas, but it looks like LucasArts has pulled a MicroSoft: the PC version of XWvTF was slipping big-time in development so they pulled ALL the Mac programmers off BOTH TIE and XWvTF to work on coding for the PC version, thereby guaranteeing a several month delay between the PC version and the Mac version.

Talk about a good way to kill Mac sales....somebody will say "Look at XWing vs. TIE fighter...it came out 2 months earlier on the PC...and they sold 14 million copies in the first 3 weeks on the PC but only 15,000 copies in the first 2 months on the Mac" (of course this would be because they worked extra-hard to get the PC version out the door before Christmas!)....Same thing happened with X-Wing Collector's edition CD Rom for Mac last year....they had the Mac version ready before Christmas, but they took all their CD-production capacity away from the Mac products to make more PC games...so if you wanted to buy a Mac game for Christmas, you had to back-order it and were lucky to get it in January. This pisses me off (and I LOVE Lucasfilm/Lucasarts!)

Wintermute


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