Re: Ads on rec.games.pbm, The Real Post

From: "Mark W. Martin" <smuggler@off-planet.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Here!  Here! Well put, Ken Mitchell! I think people don't realize that most
PBM games have less that 50 players, and that advertising is expensive.
Many of the PBM Magazines are failing because they are not being supported
by companies. If you force companies to advertise, then you also force them
to raise prices.

I couldn't charge only $2.00 per turn if I had to advertise, and yet I have
to rely on word of mouth or a lucky hit from a search engine for anyone to
know Smuggler's Run exsists! And that's another thing, SR is a PBEM game,
the operative word being Email!

I want to get in touch with people who use computers, not the folks who are
stuck in the snail-mail age. No offense to them, but by using email, I was
able to reduce my costs and pass that on to my customers. Anyone who has
played my game knows that turns used to cost $3.00, very reasonable for a
PBM game. And when I went to email, I immediately dropped the price to
$2.00. This is good-old-fashioned Capitalism at its best!

As long as the ads aren't posted every day, I think it could be nice. Maybe
there could be a new "netiquette" established. An ad from a particular
company can only be posted once per week, and the Subject must begin with
the heading "AD: ".

For example, "AD: Smuggler's Run". Then people could easily ignore it if
they aren't interested. It would work well, and be fair for all users of
the newsgroups. And it would prevent too many ads from piling up on the
Newsgroup.

SAVE THE ADS!

References

Re: Ads on rec.games.pbm, The Real Post
kmgraphiks@aol.com (KMGraphiks)
Sun, 15 Jun 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Ads on rec.games.pbm, The Real Post
bswain@nyx.cs.du.edu (Benjamin Swain)
Sat, 14 Jun 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Ads on rec.games.pbm, The Real Post
kmgraphiks@aol.com (KMGraphiks)
Sun, 15 Jun 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Ads on rec.games.pbm, The Real Post
bswain@nyx.cs.du.edu (Benjamin Swain)
Sat, 14 Jun 1997 00:00:00 +0000