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Greetings, dear fans of Heroes of Might and Magic 1!
I ask you to read this letter and express your opinion in this thread. If you share this idea, please also state it in the thread so that I can include you in the list of signatories.
Letter to the Buka company.
We, the undersigned fans and simply lovers of the game "Heroes of Might and Magic 1", ask you to allow us to "extract" the game from the collection ("Platinum from Buka" or "New Year's Collection"), remove the disk dependency, and make this game freely available for download.
The fact is that the game is popular, although it was released in 1995 (fourteen years ago!). We, with the help of offline tournaments, are trying to attract even more people to this magnificent product. But, due to the fact that some users of the game "Heroes of Might and Magic 1", namely, the Russian version 1.1 from Buka, lack the means and opportunities (more often the latter, since local distributors are not available in every city of our vast country) to purchase the entire Platinum collection from Buka, we are turning to you, as the distributor of this game, to give your consent.
The game "Heroes of Might and Magic 1" itself has no commercial value; in the collection, it serves a purely museum purpose, and it will be bought for the collection even if it can be downloaded freely. But thanks to its promotion on the website www.handbookhmm1.narod.ru, the game may interest new gamers, who will then get involved in the following games in the series and start buying the disks. In addition, this will expand the game's audience by including owners of netbooks. For example, on the Eee PC with its 800*480 pixel screen (of which several million have already been sold), "Heroes of Might and Magic 3" does not run in full screen, which creates inconvenience, and the 4th and 5th games do not run at all. But the first two games in the series can be installed, launched, and played with pleasure (and they cannot be installed from a disk, since there is no DVD drive, but it is easy to download them from the network), and thus, you can also add fans of the series and Ubisoft.
The project is implemented purely by fans on a non-commercial basis and promotes the Heroes of Might and Magic brand and, accordingly, the Ubisoft company, which is the copyright holder of the Heroes of Might & Magic brand.
Sincerely, VDV_forever
website www.heroesworld.ru: VDV_forever, Necromancher, Monza, Prorock, Kamikaze, Xaker, Kyle, AlexSPl, DrMotor, Alex_R, RAPER, ewgeniy;
website www.heroesportal.net: Catch, Sub-Zero, DeadLord;
