Re: The Death of PBM

From: "Mark Grimbley" <doctor@grimbley.freeserve.co.uk>

Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I have to admit that I haven't read Flagship in a long while, but I know
that they used to do what you've suggested. I rather suspect that they still
do. I'm sure I'll be swiftly rubuked if this isn't the case.
what your actually suggesting is called market research, where an industry
tries to determine where its market actually is and how best to sell itself.
I could go further in my opinions on this but I don't think I've enough
bread and marshmallows to toast on the resulting heat. I will ask one
question though,

How many PBM's have been conceived purely as a method to make money as
opposed to trying to make money from a hobby?

Not meaning to be contentious here and I am genuinely interested if anyone
has an answer, as for myself I have no idea (to either anything or the
answer to the question - lol)

Bobbins <kevin@okeefe.u-net.com> wrote in message
news:37d580db.14293186@news...
> Has anyone actually done a survey of PBM players?  I would think
> Flagship would be the ideal vehicle (in the UK) to carry out a survey
> of its readers?  Questions like age, income, access to email and
> computers, play free games and/or commercial games, best pbm company,
> length of time playing games etc etc???  There are lots of questions
> you could ask if you thought about it.  Perhaps then there would be
> some evidence to fall back on every time you lot have this
> interminable debate!
>
> (Maybe this has been done before in the past, but being relatively new
> to PBM I'd be interested to see the results of something like this?)
>
> Bobbins

References

Re: The Death of PBM
kevin@okeefe.u-net.com (Bobbins)
Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000
The state of pbm
nospam@here.please (Evilb)
Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: The state of pbm
Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000
The Death of PBM
"Mark Grimbley" <doctor@grimbley.freeserve.co.uk>
Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: The Death of PBM
kevin@okeefe.u-net.com (Bobbins)
Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000
The state of pbm
nospam@here.please (Evilb)
Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: The state of pbm
Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000
The Death of PBM
"Mark Grimbley" <doctor@grimbley.freeserve.co.uk>
Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000