> Just wondered how you can go and release MicroDot-II on
> the PC when the Amiga version isn't even fixed of all the blimmin'
> bugs yet! Can't that have priority to the people who have already
> paid for it?
You know the state of the Amiga market (ie. via your 'Learn to Drive'
project/CD, or whatever it is called), so we *have* to look at other things
to keep us in business.
Yes, that's right: IN BUSINESS.
I've never known a market so quiet/dead/finished. The last 2-3 months are
crippling us, and that is not a joke. For instance, May was the quietest
month we've had since October 1996. Sales were 50% (!) lower than the
average month.
June is no better and I doubt July nor August nor September will be either.
So, how do we 'stay in business' when no-one is buying anything? An example:
a) from 18th May until 17th of June we did not sell one (standalone) copy of
STFax!
b) from early May until today, we've only sold 9 copies of (standalone)
NetConnect
c) in the entire month of May, we sold only 20 modem packs
If you do your own calculations, you can see that is a devastingly dead
market. The above sales don't even pay for the advertising, never mind other
costs and me actually making a wage to actually sit here and:
a) answer all the support calls all day
b) bother to manage the NC v3 and other (Amiga) projects
> And yes I *do* realise it is not *yet* available but as it's mentioned
> on the website it must be in some state of development?
1. Who said anything about 'Microdot-II'?
2. Who said that our Amiga coders, like Olli, are coding it?
3. Who the hell said we are 'giving up' or 'stopped' developing Amiga
software or even slowed down?
4. Lastly, what the hell is the problem?
If anything, this really annoys me and makes me more determined *not* to
work on new software products for the (small and really dead) Amiga market.
It's amazing. If any PC software development company decided to produce some
software for the Amiga market, people would be rejoicing and saying 'wow
wow!'. If a small (almost dead) Amiga company decides to try and save
itself, by producing a title that perhaps might sell more than 10 copies a
month, Amiga users go ballistic.
Chris.
Active Technologies - Chris Wiles [Managing Director]
http://www.active-net.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1325 460116 [9-6 Mon-Fri, 10-5 Sat]
Fax: +44 (0)1325 460117
_____________________________________________________________
NetConnect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an 'unsubcribe'
message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
