Well said.
I have some regular CB opponents, and have occasionally played and enjoyed some GMT games by CB which I have purchased BECAUSE I have enjoyed playing them on line. I do not have regular face to face opponents who enjoy the boardgames I particularly like, and I find that Cyberboard has led to the INCREASE in my game collection. The vast majority of the games I play these days are the GMT card series games. Just my $0.02. Regards Andy _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Gibbins Sent: 09 January 2007 06:57 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CBML] Re: L2 Version of The Russian Campaign A 'Home Goal' indeed! And whatever the hit for LYG (none, as far as I'm concerned), it's a sad hit for OSG, as now I and many other gamers who have long loved their games, will no longer even consider them. I hope that the poster who cautioned a wait-and-see attitude about L2 is right, as I think they are a good company, but I'm pretty set that if a company won't allow CB, their game is worthless as it will get no play. I am sure some folks take advantage of the possibility of downloading a game without owning a hard copy, but I think a company deludes itself to think this causes much sales loss. Certainly there are a few impoverished students who will get a game this way for lack of resources, but they weren't going to pop for the game anyhow, and as players they can add to the larger community of players of a game in any case. Others of us will download a game to take a close look at it before buying, but if we like it, especially if we play it, why on earth wouldn't we want to buy it, both to support/reward the designer and publisher AND for the warm glow the game brings to our shelves and game tables? GMT is a company that epitomizes liberality of public access of rules & CB boxes. The result: I and many others buy GOBS of their games ... John Gibbins --- Andy Loakes <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:a.loakes%40ntlworld.com> com> wrote: > > Unfortunately Kevin changed the OSG policy to CB to be a blanket No- > Go. This was following an OSG/LYG co-ordinated promotion of the > Napoleon at the Crossroads gamebox which resulted in record downloads > at LYG. Unfortunately Kevin (rightly or wrongly) interpreted this as > abuse (despite a modest increase in sales which appeared to be due to > the gameboxes availability) and therefore withdrew his support of CB > in general and LYG in particular - a spectaculat home goal for me > (and IMO Kevin too). > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail. <http://mail.yahoo.com> yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
