Re: The nature of the beast

From: spamfree@metropolis.net.au (Henry Penninkilampi)

Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Greg Lindahl:

>> In Australia alone, game designers get put in charge of about a
>> half-dozen programmers/graphic artists/musicians and rack upwards of
>> $80k.  After one or two stints they then get scalped for $100k+ by
>> Software Design firms.
>
>You must be talking about computer games in general, and not PBM
>games. If so, you ought to try to make yourself more clear. And if
>you're talking about non-PBM designers, then I don't see how your
>argument has to do with anything.

Gee, I thought the exclusion of the acronym 'PBM' and the inclusion of
'musicians' in the list made it pretty damned obvious that I wasn't
talking about PBM.

As for it's relevancy, the sentence that I was responding to, which I
quoted, and which you *must* have read, suggested:  "it's not true that
skilled game designers *have* a commercial market to be "lured away" to."
Again, not too many brain cells need to be exercised to work out that I
was describing conditions of the "commercial market" which lures good
designers away from PBEM (free or otherwise) - that market is, as you say,
concerns itself with computer games in general.

>Either that, or there are a lot of PBM companies in Australia with
>many-million-$ revenue that no one's ever heard of.

No, there are no multi-million dollar PBM companies in Australia (at least
none that I know of) - you just read my response out of context and, as a
result, misinterpreted what I said and, as a result, wasted more of
everyone's time.

As Mark Williams points out in a different post, I am a resident of the
Antipodes - just as well, I say, as there seems to be some virus lurking
around the northern hemisphere which is giving people tunnel-vision and
making it impossible for them to read paragraphs *in context*.  (Maybe
it's weather-related - El-Ninio may have given way to Non-Visio...  ;)

Henry.

References

Re: The nature of the beast
spamfree@metropolis.net.au (Henry Penninkilampi)
Sat, 27 Feb 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: The nature of the beast
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 01 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: The nature of the beast
spamfree@metropolis.net.au (Henry Penninkilampi)
Sat, 27 Feb 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: The nature of the beast
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 01 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000