Re: Purpose of this Newsgroup

From: canute@gridpointgames.com (Canute Bigler)

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:26:43 GMT, johnlee@hinterland.fesnet.co.uk
(John Lee) wrote:

>Is it me or is no-one here able to see that the Webs a big potential
>market if only you up your efforts to appeal to a web-based audience?
>(Not aimed specifically at you, Steve)
>>
>>>>Regarding your rather distasteful comment about Stevie Wonders search
>>engine - I've used Excite, Yahoo and Lycos - <<
>>
>>Distasteful? oh boy.
>
>Yeh, leave that bit - Guess you don't have many blind players to
>offend.
>
>John Lee
>"The devils in the Dreaming
>He tells you I'm not sleeping in my hotel room alone
>With nothing to believe in
>You dive into the traffic rising up
>And its so quiet
>You're surprised
>And then you wake."

I completely agree with you John.  I myself am both a PBM/PBeM player
and designer.  In deciding to create ANOTHER PBM/PBeM one of my main
factors was a web presence.  A great deal of gamers don't even know
what a PBM is.  When they do find out what they are, and they conduct
a search, and then check out some of the sites of the games out there,
I would bet that a large majority of them are immediately throw off by
the amaturish web sites of so called successful companies.  Believe
me, I was one of them.

It does not take much to spruce up a web site and make it look at
least a tad bit organized and up to date.  Granted, it does not have
to support the latest breaking Flash plugins and Java applets, but it
should at least be organized in a reasonable fashion, and not be such
an eyesore.

The web has become one of the biggest resources for advertisement,
especially to a small company that does not make a great deal of
money.  You would think that EVERYONE would do their best to
capitalize on this FREE advertising.

Canute Bigler
Predsident, Gridpoint L.L.C.
canute@gridpointgames.com
www.gridpointgames.com

References

Re: Purpose of this Newsgroup
johnlee@hinterland.fesnet.co.uk (John Lee)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
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madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Purpose of this Newsgroup
johnlee@hinterland.fesnet.co.uk (John Lee)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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johnlee@hinterland.fesnet.co.uk (John Lee)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
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madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000
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johnlee@hinterland.fesnet.co.uk (John Lee)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000