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From: pmeyer@ecocd7.intel.com (Paul Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Risk
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Date: 14 Nov 90 20:20:07 GMT
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In article <26904.2740520a@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> mlab2@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>In article <15687@reed.UUCP>, orpheus@reed.UUCP (Aaron Semplers) writes:
>> Apparently, Engel wrote it as a proposal to Parker Brothers. They had
>> some gripes about the user interface and the deal fell apart. He said
>
>Has it occurred to anyone else that situations like this ought to inspire some
>sort of law.  What I mean is, if a game was offered to a company that could
>perhaps sue if it is released w/o their approval, then said company ought to
>have its rights over the program denied.  So, Parker Brothers doesn't 
>want it?  Fine, it's shareware.
>Or, how about games that are no longer supported or whose owning 
>companies have folded?  Should that game perhaps fall into the 
>public domain?  Where can I get Run For the Money? :)
>
>john calhoun (no long sig. here - short posts don't justify it)

	I don't know about companies that have folded, but I wouldn't
agree with a law making the Risk version PB turned down into public
domain.  Perhaps Parker Brothers is going to develop their own version,
or they think a computer version will cut into the sales of the board
version.  Who knows?  It's their game.  We don't have a "right" to have
a Mac version unless they feel like selling one or licensing it.  

	I think the only way to get game companies into the Mac market
is to make it worth their while.  Buy game software, stop pirating it.
Don't balk too much at a $50 or $60 game.  If we give them a profit and
don't steal their games, they'll see a market and fill it.

	Also, the low cost macs have GOT to help.  If we can broaden the
user base, especially at the low end, there will be a much larger market
for Mac games, and we'll see some new entrants into the mac gaming
arena.  
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