Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:17:27 05/23/01
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On May 23, 2001 at 14:12:08, Jason Williamson wrote: >On May 23, 2001 at 13:31:22, John Merlino wrote: > >>On May 22, 2001 at 22:48:06, enrico carrisco wrote: >> >>>On May 22, 2001 at 15:04:43, John Merlino wrote: >>> >>>>On May 22, 2001 at 07:09:24, Volker Richey wrote: >>>> >>>>>Hi, >>>>> >>>>>please give me your CCT3 Hardware spec. >>>>> >>>>>http://www.vrichey.de/cct3 >>>>> >>>>>bye >>>>> >>>>>volker >>>> >>>>Unfortunately, I have bad news. Our legal department has told us that people who >>>>are not employees of Ubi Soft (or are otherwise under contract with us, such as >>>>Johan) cannot "represent" our products in "official" tournaments. So, sadly, I >>>>am going to have to withdraw CM8000 from the CCT3. >>>> >>>>I thought about mentioning that ALL SORTS of tournaments that are equally >>>>"official" have been run by people using various versions of Chessmaster, but >>>>decided against it, not knowing how zealous our new legal folks at Ubi Soft >>>>might decide to be. >>>> >>>>My apologies again, >>>> >>>>jm >>> >>>You ought to explain to them how this bureaucratic crap kills their product >>>image. >>> >>>-elc. >> >>That would be a bad thing at this time. They bought us, and they're A LOT bigger >>than us. Maybe in about a year we'll have more clout. The theory is that WE know >>how to make a product and THEY know how to market/sell/protect it. >> >>For now, they're in charge (which is their right, after all). >> >>jm > >And I suspect that Chessmaster was secondary aquisition, and that the Myst >franchise was the main reason why Ubisoft was interested. :) Yes, but a very CLOSE second, by all accounts, since chess is a much more "world-wide marketable" game and has the possibility of being ported to many other platforms/languages. jm
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