Re: Moving to PBEM

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:44:29 +0000

>>I'm a bit dubious as to how you'd draw the suicidal conclusion on email over
mail. Can you clarify?<<

sure.  you asked for advice and opinions and i tried to help.  i said that it
would be suicide in my opinion, because i know it would be if i did it, and
that was the only honest frame of reference i had at hand to help you.

>>In my opinion using a more generic delivery system like email would reduce
the normal problems that sending a letter to(eg) Australia or South-East
Asia would create.<<

there are certainly some obvious advantages to email turns, yes.

>> My main problem is off-setting the satisfying thud of an
envelope hitting the mat with more practical matters.<<

that is a consideration, yes.  even using high-graphic output, like pdfs,
doesn't really work very well.  but my comments only really apply to the uk,
where players still just seem to love mail turns.

>> I guess having
franchises (franchises?) like Mad house would be better to compartmentalise
the world market - but again Day Ones nature would make that option
unworkable.<<

my comments applied only to the uk, really.  other markets are different.  but
in my opinion, based on my responses from my own player base, it would be a
very bad idea indeed to stop doing mail turns for *me*, which is about the best
way i know to give you advice.  i could be entirely wrong of course.

>>You're right on DO's being free being a different business model to the
likes of your own games - I think that at times we can get away with more
drastic changes because people keep in the back of their minds the fact that
its free 'so what the hell?'<<

im sure you might be right.  but in the uk ive found that players dont really
mind paying for something if its good.  i think you'll find that the money is
neither here nor there with your players, its the game they love.  and how they
receive their turns is part and parcel of the ''game'' in many ways.  i could
be entirely wrong, bu if i were you id tread carefully here.

steve t.

References

Re: Moving to PBEM
"Roy Pollard" <plod@ntlworld.com>
Fri, 01 Sep 2000 10:45:00 +0000