At 23:03 -0700 20-05-1998, Glenn Saunders wrote:
>Nevertheless, release a 2600 game cart-only and make it unique, and it
>will be more of a seller. That's what the guy on RGVC is planning to do
>with his Warlordsesque game and it's a good strategy.
I'm very sceptic... I did a Dejanews search about this guy, and if I'm not
wrong he was saying that his game would have been ready in a year, then a
few days after he says that it's almost done...
>> I've been struggling with: Shouldn't we be more protective of our .bins?
>> With every attachment on the list going up on the net, isn't this going
>> to hurt sales? Edtris demand is still high lo these many years later,
>> but will Oystron keep pace?
>
>If Piero had kept his BINs secret then he wouldn't have had the heavy
>playtesting he got. He'd have to be much more detached from the mailing
>list and I think this would have hurt the game immensely.
>
>I think that if the goal is QUALITY, then you have to sacrifice
>EXCLUSIVITY and open it up to the list
Oystron would not exist if I had wanted to make it exclusive. Enough said.
>My hat's off to those who feel they _can_ develop a game in a vacuum and
>then release it in cart-only form
Especially action games that need a lot of playtesting...
Ciao,
P.
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