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From: ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy)
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Subject: Re: Your Ultima Quote
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Date: 30 Apr 91 02:00:05 GMT
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>Parik Rao       |      Amiga - for the creative mind     |        Class of
1994

Given that there are about 1 million GSs on the market, and bout half of those
are home computers, what percentage is 4000 units?  .1% or so? This is the
number of units of Xenocide sold by Greenstone for the GS, it is now available
for the IBM systems and actually runs on less than a 386, if he were to sell
.1% of the installed base (around 10 million PC clones in home use I
estimate), he would sell 40,000 units. It doesn't take an accountant to figure
where the money is. 

I too have bought all of the games you mentioned (except the Victory stuff,
which I feel is flawed). I get the distinct feeling that I am subsidizing the
pirates, but I don't care too much as long as the software keeps coming. I
will be avaioding Electronic Arts games in the future mainly because the copy
protection penalizes the honest without punishing the guilty. And only their
Apple II and C64 games do this, all other systems support documentation CP and
are HD installable. 

My only suggestion is that we increase the proportion of users buying
software. Not just any software, we can leave the IBM users to buy every piece
of gunk released (like the Apple II circa 1982), but the quality products that
take the system to its limits and beyond. The items that really make the Apple
II shine and not cower in the shadow of Mac or IBM or Amiga.

Support flows two ways.

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