Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!dptg!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!corpane!sparks From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!???? Message-ID: <924@corpane.UUCP> Date: 3 Aug 89 12:20:19 GMT References: <268@nrcvax.NRC.COM> <30140@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky Lines: 38 <333@xrtll.UUCP> Sender: Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc. Keywords: In article <333@xrtll.UUCP> mark@xrtll.UUCP (Mark Vange) writes: >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. Down to ZERO? I find that hard to believe. Sure sales probably dropped down after 5 months, but why must it be due to pirating? Maybe everyone who wanted to buy Dragon's lair did so in the first 5 months. I know over half of my local user's group went out and bought it within the first month of it's release. That's BOUGHT, not stolen. The other half or so of the group isn't interested in it. Dragon's lair was a terrific hit. It's like a new movie. Almost everyone who goes to see a new movie does so within the first month of it's release, then the ticket sales drop drastically. Look at BATMAN. over 50 million the first week. You couldn't even get in the theater, the lines were so long; now it's doing about average for a new movie that's been out this long. Perhaps Dragon's lair is doing the same. A great first 5 months and now your entire market is not the entire Amiga community anymore, but just the small segment who are just now getting Amigas and want to get a terrific game like Dragon's Lair. Some of the loss is sure to be due to piracy, but I can't see all of your loss in sales being blamed on piracy. -- John Sparks | {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps ||||||||||||||| sparks@corpane.UUCP | 502/968-5401 thru -5406 As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.