Re: [Announcement] Eldritch Commercial Launch

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0000

"Juggernaut Press" <pbm@gamesbymail.com> writes:

> If you 'know the history of Flagship magazine when published by Juggernaut',
> then you'll know that the magazine was sold to John Hansen in November 1996.
> John never did publish further issues of Flagship, nor has he corresponded
> with anyone since May 1997. He seemed quite gung-ho when he bought the
> magazine.

Er, what I was referring to was the time that you owned the magazine,
and your record of not producing issues on time. I don't care if you
sold the magazine to someone who did nothing with it.

Given that record, I wanted to hear about how you do running games. It
sounds like your record running game turns is much better than your
record of publishing Flagship. That's good, although I'd prefer to
hear it from your players, not just you.

> New play-by-mail companies have no proven track record or 'history'. Should
> you not do business with them? That's quite foolish and ultimately it
> retards the growth of play-by-mail in general. One way to judge a new
> company is to ask lots of questions about its games.

Another way to judge a new company is to find out about their business
plan and their resources. I've seen many PBM companies founded with
too little capital and with unrealistic expectations as to their
profits. They often fold (but then again most small businesses
fail...)

On the other hand, an established company such as yours probably has a
good idea of the profits to be had and the resources needed. And
you're certainly in the highest-margin segment of the industry,
computer-moderated email games.

-- g

References

Re: [Announcement] Eldritch Commercial Launch
"Juggernaut Press" <pbm@gamesbymail.com>
Wed, 15 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0000