Re: PBM deposits & value for money

From: "Kerry Harrison" <kerry@madhouseusa.com>

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

Greg Lindahl wrote in message <7r3huk$27q5@news2.newsguy.com>...

>I group them together if the pbw game is turn-based. Some are, some
>aren't.

The majority have more in common with the BBS Door games than PBM games, but
there are few out that are basically PBM games using the web as the
transport medium - I know we're looking at doing one ourselves.

>If you say so. It's a turn-based game to me. You're right that all
>those tens of thousands of players don't know about or care about the
>traditional PBM market. But I can't imagine why you'd ignore all those
>potential customers, and the revolution happening in the industry.

The crossover between fantasy sports players and traditional PBM game
players is less than 1%, so it's a very different customer base and in the
US the barriers to entry are quite high (unlike traditional PBM), also
there's this little nagging problem of the fact that everyone at Madhouse
pretty much hates fantasy sports games (not to be confused with fictional
sports games like Mortis Maximus that we enjoy playing) and/or finds them
boring.

>That's the easy way to tout success, when you've defined 95% of the
>new customers as being in a different industry.

Actually right now Madhouse USA is more successful than I planned on it
being at this point in time - it's gotten to the point of where it could use
my full time attention to manage it, but I'm not ready to retire from my
'day' job (and give up all of those lovely stock options).

>I was under the impression that ICE owned a majority share. I could be
>wrong.

Hmm, I don't think so, but I'll ask a guy I know that works there - be
interesting to hear how they're doing since they filed Chapter 11 anyway.

Kerry

References

Re: PBM deposits & value for money
"Kerry Harrison" <kerry@madhouseusa.com>
Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: PBM deposits & value for money
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000