Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!yale!eagle!jtreworgy From: jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!???? Message-ID: <329@eagle.wesleyan.edu> Date: 3 Aug 89 15:19:16 GMT References: <268@nrcvax.NRC.COM> <30140@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <333@xrtll.UUCP> Lines: 37 In article <333@xrtll.UUCP>, mark@xrtll.UUCP (Mark Vange) writes: >> program is selling, and then they go and figure that the 10,000 kids >> who've illegally copied it would have bought it were it not available >> under the Jolly Roger. That, I'm afraid, is utterly absurd. >> > > Even if 10% of those 10,000 kids went out and bought the software, that > would translate into 1000 additional units, which is a considerable number > from the standpoint of most Amiga developers. > > I can tell you that Dragon's Lair outsold our initial expectations because > it's protection lasted for over 5 months, but as soon as a cracked version > appeared, sales dropped down to nothing. While it may make you feel better > on a Friday night to have your favoriate cracked game handy, it's making my > Friday nights much leaner than they deserve to be after many months of hard > work! > > -- > Mark Vange Phone Death Threats to: > Vanguard Distributing (416) 730-1352 mark@xrtll > 8 Everingham Ct. North York "Every absurdity has a champion > Ont, Canada M2M 2J5 to defend it." - Oliver Goldsmith From what I've heard about Dragon's Lair, the fact that sales dropped down to practically nothing has very little to do with the good copy protection. Everything I have heard about the game has been along the lines of "nice graphics, no substance", "why does one of my disks fail every week", and so on. F-18 interceptor, which had NO physical copy protection (only a codewheel, and that could be duplicated manually, not to mention the fact that it was cracked through software soon after the game's release) seemed to sell strongly for quite a long time. -- James A. Treworgy "You should have seen me with the poker man, jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu I had a honey and I bet a grand, jtreworgy%eagle@WESLEYAN.BITNET Just in the nick of time I looked at his hand" Box 5033 Wesleyan Station -Paul McCartney Middletown, CT 06475