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From: cej@ll1a.ATT.COM (C. E. T. L. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: SimWorld
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Date: 16 Oct 90 15:10:26 GMT
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In article <4549@rex.cs.tulane.edu> rawdon@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:
>I suspect that if the comapnies brought their prices down to something
>reasonable that people like college students could afford then there would
>be less pirating.

	Anybody remember Penquin Software?
	
	It was a company that sold games for the Apple II.  They also
thought their might be some truth in what you've said.

	They lowered there prices (around $19.00 list price for most
games) and didn't copy protect anything.  (Not copy protecting would
help keep costs down)  They lasted about a year in that mode.  Seems
people pirated reguardless of price.

	(Of course, they were having a few problems with sales that
caused them to re-evaluate things in the first place, but pirating
delivered the final blow.)

	In short - it's been tried and, sadly, failed.  I doubt any
company wants to risk it again.

                     Charles Evan Thomas Llewellyn Jones
     "...and the contestant from Germany is a bi-lingual vacuum cleaner."
    ...att!ccsitn!cej       [Just me, not AT&T]        cej@ccsitn.att.com