Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!Teknowledge.COM!unix!synoptics!bionet!agate!darkstar!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Software "rentals" (was: piracy) Message-ID: <7082@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 22 Sep 90 07:00:22 GMT References: <1990Sep18.194411.4851@eng.umd.edu> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing Lines: 31 In article kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) writes: >I'm not saying that piracy isn't a non-issue on any other platform, but if >you compare the volume of sales for PC game (or an Amiga game, although I'm >not quite sure on this one) and an Apple game, you're going to find out that >more copies of the PC are sold, just on the fact that there are a hell of >a lot more PC people out there actually buying the game compared to the >number of people still buying apple games. I might be wrong in a few specific >cases but I'm pretty sure that in general, software companies are making more >money off the PC games than Apple games (why would they make the PC version >of the games first? Some companies now have this policy of making the PC >version first and other platforms later if time and sales permit). Piracy sure isn't a non-issue on other platforms! One of my former housemates has an Amiga (and works at Apple.. I always think that's funny.. nothing wrong with it just funny) and has 1300+ disks of software for it. I only -wish- we had 1300 disks full of GS software to pirate or buy or do ANYTHING with! [And I don't mean trash like Gauntlet GS!] By the way, I believe I saw probably at least a hundred or two of these games for at least a few minutes a piece and many of those looked very good.. That's simply showing that for a fairly large sample (100-200), most of them weren't trashy games. That's not that I'm gonna go out and buy an Amiga, I just wish there were more quality games (AND business applications) for the GS. Rastan and many other relatively new GS games seem to be showing a little bit of renewed interest... -- / Apple II(GS) Forever! unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu \ \If cartoons were for adults, they'd be on in prime time./