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From: kim@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Geoffrey K Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!????
Message-ID: <6918@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu>
Date: 4 Aug 89 07:35:19 GMT
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In article <1505@ndmath.UUCP> milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes:
>I wish that just ONCE a software company would TRY distributing a really good
>game for $10 a copy...just to see what happens.  If the sales of Dragon's 
>Lair are as bad as people have been saying (since piracy) maby the manufacturer
>could try it with that package as a test (what have they got to loose if
>sales are near 0 now).
>

As a case in point, this is precisely how Borland Intl. got on the map.
While other people (Microsoft, Lattice and others) were trying to
sell Pascal compilers for megabucks, Borland came out with a quality
package at a reasonable price ($79,I think).  The problem with
current marketing strategies today is that companies actually factor
in the 'piracy' factor in their sales.  They anticipate piracy and so
they raise prices to cover development costs as quickly as possible.

Just my $0.02.

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