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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Games we'd like to see but were afraid to ask.
Message-ID: <4199@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 03:52:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.4199
Posted: Mon Oct 12 03:52:37 1987
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References: <EVOGvpy00XoEzEI0WM@andrew.cmu.edu> <440@mitsumi.UUCP> <1895@vax135.UUCP> <7447@g.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Tired Hackers, Unltd.
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In article <7447@g.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>In article <1895@vax135.UUCP> cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) writes:
>>In article <440@mitsumi.UUCP> jimm@mitsumi.UUCP (James Mackraz) writes:
>>>Well, at a recent BADGE meeting, Lucasfilms' position was summed up with
>>>an alleged quote: "Rounded to the nearest million, there are zero Amigas
>>>out there." 
>>
	I tracked down the source of this quote.  It belongs to (drum roll)
......... Chip Morningstar.  I met him at the Hacker's Conference.  He
seemed pretty singleminded about the issue.  I guess he doesn't know how
many copies of "Defender of The Crown" were sold.

>>Great.  Rounded to the nearest dozen, nothing to ever come out of
>>Lucasfilms is worth a pile of (excrement deleted).  This attitude
>>really burns me.
>
	Oh, I dunno.  BallBlazer is kinda cute.

>Well, if Lucasfilms isa pile of excrement, then who cares anyway?
>
	I'm afraid it's bigger than just LucasFilms.  According to a source
who I believe to be reliable, EA has *lost* money on every Amiga product
they've ever produced, with the exception of DPaint.  Typical sales figures
tend to indicate that only 5,000 copies of a piece of Amiga software will
get sold.  Apparently, "Defender of The Crown" hit market saturation at
20,000 copies after three months, and sales stopped dead.

	Also, the rumor is afoot within the industry that Amigans are
software pirates.  I guess they're using the low sales numbers as a basis
for this claim (of course, the fact that their software may be shitty has
*never* occurred to them :-( ).

	Furthermore, programmers throughout the industry *LOVE* the Amiga,
and would like to write stuff for it.  But the beancounters won't allow it,
since they don't perceive it to be cost-effective.

	Let's hope the 500 changes all this stupidity.

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