Path: clanworld.com!news.webspan.net!opus.ies-energy.com!news.cs.utwente.nl!cosy.sbg.ac.at!Cabal.CESspool!bofh.vszbr.cz!howland.erols.net!nntprelay.mathworks.com!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!nntp.earthlink.net!usenet From: "Zagadka" Newsgroups: alt.games.dark-forces,alt.games.jedi-knight,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.games.action Subject: Re: Sign this for Mac Jedi Knight! Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 12:34:28 -0700 Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. Lines: 69 Message-ID: <6h0dob$itd@bolivia.earthlink.net> References: <352acced.0@news3.ibm.net> <6gg513$ffo$1@newsgate.sps.mot.com> <6gghn5$epd@argentina.earthlink.net> <352C1D7E.969B5331@dimensional.com> <6ghcqh$h20@argentina.earthlink.net> <6ghnhe$dv2@chile.earthlink.net> <6gi8s9$gap@argentina.earthlink.net> <6glpp2$2kr@ecuador.earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.217.135.17 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Xref: clanworld.com alt.games.dark-forces:7638 alt.games.jedi-knight:10631 Eric Smith wrote in message ... > >Zagadka wrote in message <6glpp2$2kr@ecuador.earthlink.net>... > >>Any time that you are trying to sell someone something, and a large >large >>group of them say that they want something, it is a geed idea to look >into >>it. Even if they may not buy it, keeping the gamers happy in a very >>competative market helps. > >Keeping gamers happy is good. Making a profit is good. Keeping >gamers happy at the expense of a profit is BAD. Unless you already happen to have an extensive reserve of money and reply on the dedication of those happy gamers. Then you keep those gamers happy, and you usually listen to them. >>If people really think that LA sucks, then they >>will go to id or something. Believe it or not, they are actualyl >interested >>in your future money. They want you to be happy with them and to buy >their >>future products, not their competitors, so they will do whatever they >can to >>accomplish this. They KNOW that if they port it to Mac a lot of >people will >>buy it. You don't have to prove that to them. What would really piss >them >>off would be 100,000 people boycotting all of their products, but >that's not >>gonna happen, > >Yep... > > >>so the best you can hope for is 100,000 people demanding. > > >You're a dead man!!! Not very nice. tisk tisk. >What, that threat sound shallow? Perhaps it's because you know I >cannot reach out and strangle you over the internet, yes? Well, I think it is very reactive, you know, calling someone a dead man and threatening his life because he says something about demanding/asking/telling a company what you want. >Same goes with 100,000 people demanding a MAC version, if you want to >"demand" something from LA you need to be able to back your demand up >with something. For PC users the only thing you can back it up with >is a boycott. No matter what PC users say they won't make a >difference to LA unless they are ready, willing, and able to boycott. >And as you said that just isn't going to happen... In case anyone hasn't gotten it through their heads yet, LA isn't a monopoly, and they aren't poor. They don't rely on hitting everyone possible, but they DO RELY ON PEOPLE, word of mouth, good relations, return customers, etc. LA generalyl listens. XvT was released to soak up the demand for multiplayer TIE Fighter. LA is part of Lucas's empire (hence the name). Lucas doesn't like bad press. Maybe they wouldn't listen. Maybe you are right. But they aren't going to listen to people who already aren't buying their products, eh?