Re: PBM costs

From: dutchman@mcs.com (Rich Van Ollefen)

Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <41l5vi$pf3@moon.src.honeywell.com>, cisco@src.honeywell.com
(Cisco Lopez-Fresquet) wrote:

> >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 believe that is one of the factors which inhibits the growth of the PBM
hobby, and is why I reduced my game cost for $50 per game for a 25-30
turn game.  On the upside, you can't cheat a pbm game (unlike most computer
games), each games plays quite differently on repeat play, and you do get
the human interaction of diplomacy without needing to get 5-6 people together
for role-playing.

By the way, PBMCon will be held again next year, the May 31- June 2 weekend.
Hope you can make it.  We'll probably do a Living City blitz again and offer
5-7 different events.  Rich Van Ollefen

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
Re: PBM costs
cisco@src.honeywell.com (Cisco Lopez-Fresquet)
Fri, 25 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000