Re: Why do games go commercial?

From: "David Bolton" <david@4pbm.com>

Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00:00 +0000

I think a pretty good justification for commercial games is to provide
committment and regular turns- perhaps to become the McDonalds of the game
world. I would not expect anyone to provide a good service over a long time
for free. There may be dedicated gamers who have done this and all credit to
them, and they may offer a good gaming experience, perhaps superior to some
commercial games but there are many who have started and then dioscovered
that running games can be damn hard work and eventually fallen by the
wayside.

I think its inimical to game playing that gamers think they can do it
better.

David

Guy Tichborne <gtuffli@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:8h1gp8$26a$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
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>
>
> 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
> >
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> 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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> Before you buy.

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
Re: Why do games go commercial?
Guy Tichborne <gtuffli@my-deja.com>
Tue, 30 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000