| From: | adambell |
| Date: | 16 Aug 2000 at 10:02:00 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Piracy |
>Attractive packaging and a good, well printed manual. Make people want
>to own an original. Enjoy the sales you do get and ignore the pirates.
>
>You have to think of the CD as an inducement to buy the book and
>packaging.
>
>In the case of games, the market is the person who wants an original
>boxed copy of a new game as soon as it comes out. A person who doesn't
mind
>giving the game a try on a gold disk so long as it comes free was never
>a market in the first place. There's no point in trying to _sell_ to
>cheapskates or the penniless - the profitable business in that market is
>moneylending.
What you have to consider though is that people aren't cheapskates. They
are simply scared about wasting money. It it countless times that I went
to Electronic Boutique and bought a really crap Amiga thinking it was
good, and therefore wasting around 20pounds. Obviously I could have used
that for something else.
I saw an interesting letter on piracy in a PSX mag. Basically the guy
admitted to owning a chipped PSX and pirating all his games. He used the
example of Tomb Raider III. He got that on gold disc and even though he
knew it was a great game, he hardly played it and didn't get very far into
it. Now though he will buy a game for 30pounds and play it as much as
possible to get his money worth. I think he made a really good point
here. If you buy a game for 30quid and on first play you think it is crap
or to hard, you will try and try to get into it. Buy it for a fiver, and
the chances are you'll just go and try out sommat else.
Ad.
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