Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 10:47:35 08/12/00
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On August 11, 2000 at 21:22:33, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On August 11, 2000 at 18:09:24, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>On August 11, 2000 at 07:44:50, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On August 10, 2000 at 21:51:15, Jorge Pichard wrote: >>> >>>>It is a pity that with so many Chessmaster followers, the King Version 3.0 or >>>>CM8000 beta will not be participatingin the WMCCC. >>>> >>>>Pichard. >>> >>>Apart from the fact that i don't give it a single % chance to finish #1 >>>there, if you pay $500 entry fee, i'm sure Johan will participate. >>>I guess that johan doesn't join because chessmaster doesn't pay >>>his entry fee, otherwise he probably would have a shot at joining. >>> >>>$500 entry fee is quite a lot. I'm secretary of a big chessclub. >>>We organize a lot of tournaments. With $500 entry fee i could live >>>quietly the rest of my life. >> >> >>Money is not the reason. 500 bucks maybe are a lot for you, but not for a >>company. The reason is they are going to deliver CM8000 in a couple of months or >>so they cannot take the risk to get even a second place. How much people could >>be disappointed because of that and instead of purchasing CM would purchase the >>winner? OK, not too many people as much CM aims to mass market, that does not >>even knows about the tour, but even so why they should expend even just 500 to >>lose only 10 customers from the professional niche? For what? >>Fernando > >Chessmaster's sales figures would be affected essentially zero by the King not >doing well in the tournament. > >I think that Mattel Interactive probably just doesn't care about it. > >Dave Hi: Yous is speculation as it is mine, but with a difference: my speculation have some ground in numbers and sound commercial practice, yours in a subjetive statement about how they feel in Mattel about this issue. Maybe you are right, but still is truth that nobody in a company is going to expend money even to lose one dollar if they can avoid it. What I mena is that between zero and "essentially" zero could be some extra dollars that they have no reason to trash. Well, anyway I will buy the silly thing :-) Happens that I am one of those lovers of thrills and whistles and bells and a good engine as ad-on Fernando
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