Re: PBM report

From: MindShift Design LLC <mindshift@my-deja.com>

Date: Thu, 12 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

Referenced By

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