Re: Are web based games the future of pbm/pbem.

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:47:38 +0000

>>For me, fast action games are ideal as I've too much else to occupy my
time in the real world to spend hours studying turns and plotting my
next move.<<

There are plenty of fast-action games out there, of course.

>>Not trying to prove any particular point, but I have managed to
recruit more players for Gang Wars in the space of a couple of weeks
than I did in my whole time of playing postal games.<<

But you are selling something completely different, with different costs
involved.  Plus, you now have the advantage that PBEM and browser games are
well-known, so its easy to recruit for them.  Back in the old days trying to
tell people what PBM was used to be half the problem.

I don't think there's a lot of comparison here.  If you had more than 100
players for a postal hand-mod game then you were in the top 10 games of that
type in the world, most likely.  250 players in a browser game probably doesn't
even hit the top 500.  But its really not a fair comparison to make in either
direction.

The big bonus for you is that you don't have to stay up until 5AM writing turns
while the sun rises (ah, I fondly remember my own hand-mod days).  Then again,
when I was in my early twenties, that was half the fun too.

Steve T.

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Re: Are web based games the future of pbm/pbem.
philshulkind@hotmail.com (Phil S)
Thu, 22 May 2003 11:05:36 +0000