Re: PBM costs

From: phil@phildee.win-uk.net (P.Shulkind)

Date: Sat, 02 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <422tak$38n@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, Kythyn (kythyn@aol.com) writes:
>
>It's likely that the computer game companies will overwhelm the PBM/PBEM
>companies, because they already understand the concepts of marketing,
>whereas many of the PBM/PBEM companies were founded by technicians or
>gamers.
>
I'd have to agree with that. I was reading an article in a soccer
magazine the other day, an interview with the guy who started up
the "Fantasy Soccer" games over here. He said himself that he ran
this game on a small scale as a type of play by mail game for
about a year, with it going nowhere. He then got hooked in to a
completely different situation involving newspapers etc, and this
game is now played by hundreds of thousands of people, with
slightly different variants run by just about every newspaper, and
different versions for different sports. This could never have
happened if he'd been left to his own devices, that he readily
admits. I cannot envisage computer games companies becoming
interested in running PBM games though (maybe PBEM), as they would
see the market as being too small. I think they're wrong, there's
a huge potential market as proved by the Fantasy sports games, it's
only one small step on from that to playing a full blown PBM
(except that the Fantasy games are of course virtually free and
come with big prizes for winners).... Hmmm... maybe it's not so
similar after all, try explaining to those people that they have to
pay money every turn to play :-(

Phil

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References

Re: PBM costs
gbenage@aol.com (G Benage)
Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: PBM costs
kythyn@aol.com (Kythyn)
Wed, 30 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: PBM costs
gbenage@aol.com (G Benage)
Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: PBM costs
kythyn@aol.com (Kythyn)
Wed, 30 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000