Re: PBM costs

From: cg@primenet.com (mystro)

Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000

chrisk@yogi.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Chris Kessel) wrote:

>|> Yeah, you've got THAT one right (among others)   I may need to form a MEPBM-
>|> Anon support group soon. <G>
>|>
>|> Player of seven games.  <And more on their way to me...>

>I've got a general question for all PBM players.  How do you
>afford it?  I used to play just one game, at $7.50 a turn it cost
>$15 a month, plus usually another $30 a month on phone bills.
>For that price I can buy a brand new computer or board game every
>month that will almost certainly give me more play time than the
>two PBM turns did, plus I'll have them forever and I can probably
>sell them to someone else eventually.  I guess I could afford it, but
>it seems I can get a hell of a lot more value for my money elsewhere.

>And never mind trying to play 3 or 4 games...that gets close to costing
>as much as my car payment!

>I've thought on and off about playing again, but the costs involved are
>just way too high to really even consider it.

I take it you've never played VGA-Planets? Considered by many to
be the best game of its genre,VGAP is not a charge by move game, you
simply pick up the shareware game and your ready to play,you won't be
able to build above tech 6 ships,hulls,weapons etc tho.. until you reg
the game. Several gaming mags have made mention of the 100 thousand
players worldwide, so theres no shortage of players/competition
BTW..each internet
game consists of 11 human players/races. Its
supported,'portable'unix,pc,mac etc, multi-player internet game going.

References

What is MEPBM?
Brendan Speer
Tue, 22 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: What is MEPBM?
dcd@nasa.kodak.com (Dennis DeYoung)
Tue, 22 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: What is MEPBM?
Chelsea Wood <auril@delphi.com>
Tue, 22 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000
PBM costs
chrisk@yogi.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Chris Kessel)
Fri, 25 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000