Re: Running a pbm..

From: alex@zool.unizh.ch (Alex Schroeder)

Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 00:00:00 +0000

> 1) How much do you usually spend on advertising, and where are the best
> places to advertise?

I had a WWW page added to as many search engines as I could. For some
time I posted the "newspaper" of my game on the usenet - the place all
players could put up messages for the others to read. I have stopped
doing it, though, because new players often mentioned hearing about my
game from friends, and never because of this posting. So I might as
well stop wasting bandwidth.

Note that I enjoy reading the Atlantis 3.0 Times from time to time
without playing the game.

> 2) What is the average amount of turns that a customer plays, i.e., what
> is the turnover rate for players?

My game is a free, German Atlantis game. It beeing free, almost 50% of
all newbies quit the game within one turn.

> 3) Is there any reference source that you can recommend about starting
> your own pbm?

There is a pbem server out there which had some interesting articles
from a net magazine about running games
(somewhere on http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm.html I think).

Alex.
--
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References

Running a pbm..
halcyon88@aol.com (Halcyon 88)
Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:00:00 +0000

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Running a pbm..
halcyon88@aol.com (Halcyon 88)
Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:00:00 +0000