Re: Origins PBM Winner

From: "Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>

Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:30:22 +0000

Guys, let's not fight over words, shall we?

You're both right, you just choose not to listen to each other ;-) There is
a community of PBM players, of course. The mere fact that we're discucssing
games on this list prvoes it. And I've been on too many gatherings of PBM
players to deny it anyway.

But as Greg sys, there's not really a community of people who play lots of
gmaes and are able to compare them - a simgle game is usually time consuming
enough, and with hundreds of games out there it's hard to say which one is
better than another because you've hardly played one percent of them.

Which is why I think voting for PBMs, as some sites do it, is silly. Eressea
won a "Best German Internet Game" award twice in a row - but hey, we had
superior numbers.

So, to get back to the original subject of the posting: I don't know if
StarWeb is a justified winner (never played it), but I think it's good to
have an award of this sort just for the sake of making PBMs a wee bit more
popular and giving them a bit more exposition.

Think about it: How long would you have to play an average PBM in order to
write a simple magazine review about it? I imagine that would usually take
at least 2-3 months. No wonder we never get any reviews in popular computer
games mags ;-) That said, if anyone has an idea about how to motivate the
mainstream press into doing one anyway, I'd like to hear it. Can't hurt to
try.

Enno.

References

Re: Origins PBM Winner
jasonm@spamkiller.mindshiftdesign.com (Jason Paul McCartan)
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:31:36 +0000
Re: Origins PBM Winner
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:12:34 +0000
Origins PBM Winner
jasonm@spamkiller.mindshiftdesign.com (Jason Paul McCartan)
Sat, 07 Jul 2001 03:49:31 +0000
Re: Origins PBM Winner
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:13:37 +0000

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Re: Origins PBM Winner
jasonm@spamkiller.mindshiftdesign.com (Jason Paul McCartan)
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:31:36 +0000
Re: Origins PBM Winner
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:12:34 +0000
Origins PBM Winner
jasonm@spamkiller.mindshiftdesign.com (Jason Paul McCartan)
Sat, 07 Jul 2001 03:49:31 +0000
Re: Origins PBM Winner
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:13:37 +0000