Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 11:37:58 08/13/00
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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. >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 What I meant is that if the program does not win, and consequently no reference to the tournament is made on the outside box of the software package, then 99.99% of the customers are not going to know anything about the tournament at all, and sales will not be affected. (For all intents and purposes, none of us CCC users count. :-) Yes, you're right, that's just my opinion. Dave
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