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So basically... EA hates the UK and it could have been saved by the UK....
neat.
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I know it is tradition -- or is it bloodsport? -- to discount or criticize whatever AJ says. To discount his comment by suggesting the UK is Europe is to discount a ninth of the world's population. Europe includes Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, russia, San Marino, Servia and Montenegro, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Vatican City. I'd suggest that if even a third of those countries could have accessed TSO by a direct release (i.e., without having to mail to the US) the TSO history may well have been quite different.
AJ wasn't the only player who waited avidly for the announced by EA release. Many, many players were disappointed. How many others were not even given the chance to sign on for lack of knowledge?