Re: Magic the (addiction) now owns the ORIGINS con...

From: tandmb@sierra.net (Josh Knapp)

Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <D8L8GE.160@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) wrote:
> I wouldn't draw any generalizations from looking at what ABM did to
> BSE. BSE is a game which needs a large amount of data input, a large
> amount of hand-moderation, and a large amount of programmer
> maintenance on a large and crufty program. In short, it's an expensive
> game to moderate, and tough to make a profit on.

No arguments there.

> You can tell that ABM learned a lot from it, though. It's a Crime! and
> Monster island are both much, much cheaper to operate -- much less
> keypunching, no hand moderation, and probably have much larger profit
> margins. And when ABM found out that Mike could make much more money
> distributing Magic cards than running BSE, it's no surprise that they
> didn't pay much attention to BSE. I'm not defending what they did, but
> it's not an indictment of the PBM industry at large.

I'll defend to the death ABM's right to make a decent profit - hell, I'll
let 'em rake in whatever they can - but I think they really should have
done what they did with BSE a _long_ time ago, instead of jacking people
around.

And I don't really see anyone else in PBM doing anything of the sort -
except maybe RSI, but that's a different can of worms. (g)

--
Famous last words #17: "I bet that without Mjollnir, you're a real wuss!"

References

Magic the (addiction) now owns the ORIGINS con...
Bill Rapp <conquest@dnai.com>
Fri, 05 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Magic the (addiction) now owns the ORIGINS con...
Rich <ricmal@delphi.com>
Mon, 08 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Magic the (addiction) now owns the ORIGINS con...
tandmb@sierra.net (Tony & Marcia Baldacci)
Sat, 13 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Magic the (addiction) now owns the ORIGINS con...
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Sun, 14 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000