Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:09:13 08/12/00
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On August 12, 2000 at 13:47:35, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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 $500 entry fee i could live >>>>quietly the rest of my life. >>> >>> >>>Money is not the reason. 500 bucks maybe are a lot for you, but not for a >>>company. The reason is they are going to deliver CM8000 in a couple of months or >>>so they cannot take the risk to get even a second place. How much people could >>>be disappointed because of that and instead of purchasing CM would purchase the >>>winner? OK, not too many people as much CM aims to mass market, that does not >>>even knows about the tour, but even so why they should expend even just 500 to >>>lose only 10 customers from the professional niche? For what? >>>Fernando >> >>Chessmaster's sales figures would be affected essentially zero by the King not >>doing well in the tournament. >> >>I think that Mattel Interactive probably just doesn't care about it. >> >>Dave > >Hi: >Yous is speculation as it is mine, but with a difference: my speculation have >some ground in numbers and sound commercial practice, yours in a subjetive >statement about how they feel in Mattel about this issue. Maybe you are right, >but still is truth that nobody in a company is going to expend money even to >lose one dollar if they can avoid it. What I mena is that between zero and >"essentially" zero could be some extra dollars that they have no reason to >trash. It is unclear if they earn buyers or lose buyers from playing in WMCCC. I believe that for every buyer they lose from second place they will earn another buyer but even if you assume they earn 10 buyers from playing in WMCCC the cost of playing is clearly bigger because the price of 10 chessmaster copies is less than 500$ and I did not count travelling costs. Uri
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