Re: Looking for free pbem.

From: MindShift Design LLC <jasonm@mindshiftdesign.com>

Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000

In article <7gpq05$19kh@news1.newsguy.com>,
  lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl) wrote:
> MindShift Design LLC <jasonm@mindshiftdesign.com> writes:
>
> > 1) I wasn't trying to win customers - I actually mentioned another company's
> > product. I was offering my opinion (from a game developers POV) that what he
> > was looking for was "possibly out of the bounds of the 'free' games".
>
> And for the same reason, free software is likely to be worse than
> commercial software? So Linux doesn't exist. BTW, it was this line of
> thought that spawned the flamewar the last few times this came up.

Greg, please don't put words in my mouth. I never said that free software is
worse than commercial software. What I did say, and I post it again is "that
what he was looking for was "possibly out of the bounds of the 'free' games".
I never mentioned that it wasn't able to be done, but that it was possible
that it would be harder to find. Commercial games tend to have a lot more
product development and programming time put into them as well as more
resources and finances to develop a final end product. The majority (note -
majority and not all) of free games are done in the spare time by the
developers of that game. Some of these are very fine. I wasn't dissing
they're games, so please don't try and change the context of my
communication.

I actually use Linux and the Linux argument has nothing do with this topic,
except in a OT tangent.  Open source projects such as linux have come a long
way in a short time because of the large amount of people working together.
Please don't pontificate or spout Linux at me in an argument regarding PBM
games. Linux is a very fine product. So are some commercial and free PBM
games. Nuff said.

> > 2) I wasn't trying to win friends. I was replying to a query made by
> > player-to- be of a game and gave a recommendation (albeit commercial and not
> > free) that may be an alternative.
>
> Ah. So you answered a question he didn't ask. Pretty weird.

No. I gave an alternative option in the case that he didn't find a free game
and wish to pay for a game that wasn't quest. Please stop trying to read
between the lines and misread the blank space.

> > At the end of the day it's the player's choice to choose between free and
> > commerical games, but I believe in allowing them that choice and trying to
> > help out when they ask
>
> How is not answering their question helping?

I did answer their question. That was why I posted. I may not have said "I
don't know of any free ones that play like quest", but I did say that he may
find difficulty finding a game that matched his criteria. Not I said may, not
would.

This argument is getting old now, can we drop it and get back to talking about
PBMs and not the semantics of language ?

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Jason Paul McCartan - jasonm@mindshiftdesign.com
CEO
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References

Re: Looking for free pbem.
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Wed, 05 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Looking for free pbem.
MindShift Design LLC <jasonm@mindshiftdesign.com>
Wed, 05 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: Looking for free pbem.
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Wed, 05 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Looking for free pbem.
MindShift Design LLC <jasonm@mindshiftdesign.com>
Wed, 05 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000