All I'll say is that a non-gamer should never even attempt to actually sell a game. He usually screws up and makes everyone mad in the process. Now, he'll get fewer, I'm willing to bet, purchases of his Jaws-fetishist product than he would have if he'd stuck to his element and just kept slobbering over his first love, Jaws.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 28, 2015, at 4:32 PM, Thomas Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Dark, > > Not sure I'd go as far to call Brian Hartgen a moron since his reasons > for not selling Q9 separately makes sense from a certain business > point of view. As I understand it his entire purpose of acquiring the > game was not to sell the game but to use it to add onto his Leasey > product, to boost sales of Leasey, so seen from that perspective it > makes sense. There is a lot that could be said here greedy, scummy, > unfair, etc but the bottom line is he won't sell the game as a stand > alone product because it was never his intention to do it that way. He > is bundling it into his Leasey product and if you want it you have to > pay the big bucks for Leasey. > > To be honest I don't think Brian Hartgen really thought about the > ramifications of what this would do and how angry this would make the > audio games community. He saw this as a simple business transaction, > one in which would boost sales of Leasey, and he didn't care if it > effectively took Q9 off the market. He is not a game developer per se, > and thus he has no ties to the community the way many long time audio > game developers do. So he just does not see it the same way we see it. > To him Q9 is just another piece of software to be sold or added to > Leasey rather than sold as a separately existing product. > >> On 7/28/15, dark <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well then he shal recieve my scorn for being a moron! Really, not selling >> something to people is a great way to run a business. >> >> Dark. > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
