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Subject: Re: Ktulu mirage vanishing and precociously marketed shams always coming...

Author: pavel

Date: 16:26:55 04/18/05

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On April 18, 2005 at 15:01:14, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>As teens, we love novelty. As they, we want to know every week of a new rock
>star. In our case, a new darling chess program to shaken our progresive boredom
>and satiation with  too strong and too similar products.
>We have already seen many of these runs, but this time the novelty inside the
>novelty is that the hoopla was not worth of even the regimental week of
>enthusiasm. Sure, the iranian kid is a very talented one and perhaps he will
>amaze us next year, but now, looking at the games posted here, it seems as Ktulu
>is kind of a precociously marketed thing by a precociously greedy young man.

What marketing sceme by the author of Ktulu do you have problems with?
Care to point, I would be very interested.

I haven't seen any comments yet (maybe I missed) by the author claiming it to be
the best in the world, or anything to that effect. Only the beta-testers and the
ones who actually bought the software, have shown some impressive results; and
perhaps overblown it's actual strength. Beta-testers don't speak for the
authors. What did he (the author) actually said, that made it seems like a
"precociously marketed thing by a precociously greedy young man"?

Thanks
pavs




>At least we can say, in his favor, that Ktulu deserves more our money than other
>commercial stuff of dubious quality.
>I wonder how some people dare to make business with merchandise lot inferior to
>freeware stuff.
>Fernando.



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