Re: Bad News for UK PBM players

From: vsim@xs4all.nl (vsim)

Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Quoting from: phy6drhj@ast.leeds.ac.uk (Dean Johnson)
 [snip]

> I have had friends who ran PBM companies.  Here is my 2 cents of advice.
 > The only way to get really BIG is have computerised games.  Better still
 > if you can get a friend to develop one for essentially nothing.  Once
 > you have a popular computerised game (or two), your are making enough
 > per turn for some product development (i.e. programming).  Look at Midnight
 > Games (Legends) and KJC (gods knows how many computerised games).

> Dean

Have you ever tried to develope a computerized game yourself. If not
then i can tell you that it will take ALOT, a verryy very lot of time
and money. So much even that it isn't paying back after sevral years.
You must keep in mind that developing and bugfixing a really good sized
game will put you back for US$180,000 if you had to do all the work by
a programmr on your payrole...

So, yes!! PBM moderators are more lik social workers the bussinesmen. :-)

Bram

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References

Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 26 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
phy6drhj@ast.leeds.ac.uk (Dean Johnson)
Tue, 30 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 26 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
phy6drhj@ast.leeds.ac.uk (Dean Johnson)
Tue, 30 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000