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From: ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!????
Message-ID: <2187@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 3 Aug 89 18:35:17 GMT
References: <6712@warpdrive.UUCP> <1505@ndmath.UUCP>
Reply-To: ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP (Daniel Jay Barrett)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <1505@ndmath.UUCP> milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes:
>I can understand the reasons why things like C compilers & such sell for $500
>and I'm willing to pay that much because I understand the product has a 
>limited market.  A game, however, should NOT cost $50!  (particularly some
>of the ROTTEN games I've seen out there).  A lot of the games I've seen
>I would consider worth $5-$10 but VERY few are of $50 quality.

	Chuck McManis posted a VERY good article last year about the
cost of making, distributing, and supporting a computer program such as a
game.  I wouldn't mind at all if he reposted it.  It struck home for a lot
of people.

>Today I can buy a major motion picture that cost $40 MILLION dollars to
>make...for $19.95...

	But the motion picture already made 100 gazillion dollars in the
movie theaters.  Try releasing a mega-million-dollar movie ONLY on videotape
and see if you don't go bankrupt.

>I can buy a 500 page novel that someone took a year to write...for $5.

	Novels don't require user support or bugfixes.  Well, at least 
customers don't EXPECT it.

                                                        Dan

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