Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!tarantula.berkeley.edu!c60c-3aw From: c60c-3aw@tarantula.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: $$$ (was: GS/OS Software compatability) Summary: Yup... Keywords: Activision, Mediagenic... Message-ID: <15768@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 20 Oct 88 20:18:57 GMT References: Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 26 In article joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) writes: > >Activision (now MediaGenic) claims that updates for registered users >will be coming "in a month or so." It is the "or so" that worries me. >Since I own all five of these, if there is a charge levied for the >upgrade I am going to be quite angry (and poor). I have to wonder about Activision; for a while they were requiring users to pay $10 extra for an un-copy protected version of their programs (required to run them on anything but an Apple drive). According to an article in the Sunday, Oct 16 San Jose Mercury News: "President Ken Williams [of Sierra On-Line, which recently went public] said Sierra was third in sales by public entertainment software companies in the first half of 1988, with estimated sales of $3 million. MediaGenic of Menlo Park was the leader with $13.5 million in sales." If we ignore Christmas, that should be about $27 million this year. Media Genic probably makes more money on updates than Central Point Software... >Seymour -- fadden@zen.berkeley.edu [crashed] c60c-3aw@widow.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) (Outgoing E-mail has about a 40% chance of successfully reaching you. Feel free to respond through the mail, but I probably can't answer.)