Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
The big problem with Kilrathi Saga was that it was released at the wrong time -- it came out for Win9x before Win9x was the accepted standard... lots of people (myself included) bought it *only* for the manual -- presumably, people who weren't as obessive collectors didn't buy it at all.
Origin got burned because of this, because they put a lot of money and such into KS -- and they released it as a full new game, with manuals and everything instead of a piece of shovelware.
Further, it didn't work when it came out -- DirectX 2 and 3 just weren't stable enough to do the game properly. It's rather amazing that the later versions *do* run KS near perfectly...
Origin got burned because of this, because they put a lot of money and such into KS -- and they released it as a full new game, with manuals and everything instead of a piece of shovelware.
Further, it didn't work when it came out -- DirectX 2 and 3 just weren't stable enough to do the game properly. It's rather amazing that the later versions *do* run KS near perfectly...

