Re: Galactic Prisoners

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 10:29:22 +0000

>>In a nutshell: Back in 1992 a 'rumor' blurb is printed in US Flagship where
the
player states that he thought the game was rather simplistic. Grandel asks
Flagship to cease and desist the slandering of their game. Grandel then asks
their players to sign a legal document stating that they will never send in any
review or info on the game to a publication without their approval. Of course
there's more to this on both sides.<<

It seems verry unreasonable of then doesn't it?  But I do have some sympathy.
While I'd never make my players sign a non-disclosure agreement or anything as
serious as that, I *did* put a ban on reviews in Flagship a couple of years
ago.  I've since let it slide, but back then when we were a smaller firm and
Flagship was a bigger mag, a lot of damage could be done through a stupid and
unfounded comment.

Theres nothing more annoying that spending a few hundred pounds on advertising,
only to find that your money is wasted due to something in the mags content
which destroys your signup rate.

These days, It doesn't really worry me, because we've grown enough that the
'effect' of negative press in Flagship doesn't worry me (everybody who reads
Flagship knows who we are and what we do anyway) but back then it was a bigger
deal.

What Im saying is, sure, they overreacted, but I can see where they were coming
from.

Steve T.

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Re: Galactic Prisoners
kmgraphiks@aol.com (KMGraphiks)
Thu, 31 Aug 2000 05:49:45 +0000

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Re: Galactic Prisoners
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Thu, 31 Aug 2000 05:49:45 +0000