Re: Why do games go commercial?

From: Guy Tichborne <gtuffli@my-deja.com>

Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000

In article <8gtkgn$8l7$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  treasonmaster@my-deja.com wrote:
> :)))
>
> I guess I didn't made myself clear.
> I'm not saying you guys are in it for the money. Actually, I know
> you're not. And I wasn't talking about getting money from advertising
> also.
>
> My question was (I hope now is perfectly clear to all):
>  why and how do folks that started GM'ing in their free time decide to
> charge their players?
>
> Some accused me of seeing black-and-white, but either you pay to play
> or you play for free.
> There's people looking for free pbem's and people looking for pbem's in
> general, and people looking for commercial pbem's. It wasn't I who
> invented this classification.
>
> Bruno
>

I can't speak for anyone else, but for me, there came a point when I
started to resent the time I have to spend working a day job when I could
be designing and building games, and when I realized that there were
things I could do that would be very neat...but would require servers,
DSL lines, and so on. With the benefit of money, one can do a LOT more.
The sums of money aren't such that I think anyone needs be worried that
people would get corrupted by it.

--
Geoff Tuffli
http://www.jubal.com

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References

Why do games go commercial?
treasonmaster@my-deja.com
Fri, 26 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Why do games go commercial?
treasonmaster@my-deja.com
Mon, 29 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000

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Why do games go commercial?
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Fri, 26 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000
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