Re: PBM report

From: "MindShift Design" <teammsd@mindshiftdesign.com>

Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

"MadCentral" <madcentral@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20001009075709.03032.00000870@ng-fj1.aol.com...
> Without them, the PBM hobby is becoming more and more shaky in the U.S.
> Hopefully, Kerry will sell them to somebody who's actually going to make
them,
> sometime soon.  Last I heard, he had a buyer, but I dont know who it was
(and I
> hope to god its not 'Mindshift Design', who are yet another firm who
promise
> the moon but never seem to actually *finish* anything.)

Actually it's not us, and nor is it likely to be.

As for us "never seeming to finish anything", we have in fact completed
multiple projects and operations (like www.freelancelist.com ) just not in
the PBM area, which has occured for various reasons, though mostly because
our time, effort and finances have been tied into more lucrative web and
software development projects, rather than projects that aren't as
financially rewarding for us. In fact our Suergan product lines are being
co-developed into other gaming areas as well, and that's the reason why
things have not been released.

With regards to if we had the PBM Report or other titles, we WOULD do
something with it, and at one point we were in talks with Kerry to do
something with it. We had chosen a printer, set up the internal systems on
our network, allocated manpower and time to it, and started a marketing and
production analysis to make sure that it was going to be a viable
publication. However at the very last moment he decided to continue pursuing
it himself, after we had allocated a lot of time and resources to setting
things up for us to take over the product.

We actually have the license for Godfather here in the US, but have had
problems getting it running at all. At the moment, we're re-evaluating what
will happen with that license.  Our other projects are on hold at the moment
until we relaunch our gaming division under the Claymore Games brand which
will be focusing on games in many arenas and not just PBM.

Over the past few months we've been evolving the company and breaking away
not only the gaming aspects into it's own division, but convincing investors
that out main business lines will not be affected by a product line/service
that doesn't show a large return in $$$. However with the main focus of our
company's revenue coming from software and web development for external
clients, we've been spenting time and resources on where our money is really
made, and not where most of our money could potentially be lost. And our
developers and staff are pretty well paid, so we make sure we get as much
bang for our buck out of them and a decent return on investment. With PBM,
we'd be paying our developers 5-10s as much to develop the game as we would
make back with it in a year.

We do have projects forthcoming for gaming, but we're not ready to disclose
them yet, but will when the new Claymore Games site is launched.

Also, for the record, we've never promised the moon. Just small portions of
it at overly-inflated prices above market value that are copied by street
dealers and sold on beaches in foreign countries for pennies on the pound.
Personally I've been swamped with too many other concerns and building our
other lines of business to concentrate my time on elements that aren't
immediately rewarding. And it's been a long time since I last played in a
game.

--
Jason Paul McCartan - jasonm@mindshiftdesign.com
CEO/President
MindShift Design LLC
http://www.mindshiftdesign.com

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References

Re: PBM report
Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Sun, 08 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: PBM report
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Mon, 09 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000