c60c-3aw@tarantula.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) (10/21/88)
In article <Oct.19.17.56.04.1988.27523@elbereth.rutgers.edu> joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) writes: > >Activision (now MediaGenic) claims that updates for registered users >will be coming "in a month or so." It is the "or so" that worries me. >Since I own all five of these, if there is a charge levied for the >upgrade I am going to be quite angry (and poor). I have to wonder about Activision; for a while they were requiring users to pay $10 extra for an un-copy protected version of their programs (required to run them on anything but an Apple drive). According to an article in the Sunday, Oct 16 San Jose Mercury News: "President Ken Williams [of Sierra On-Line, which recently went public] said Sierra was third in sales by public entertainment software companies in the first half of 1988, with estimated sales of $3 million. MediaGenic of Menlo Park was the leader with $13.5 million in sales." If we ignore Christmas, that should be about $27 million this year. Media Genic probably makes more money on updates than Central Point Software... >Seymour -- fadden@zen.berkeley.edu [crashed] c60c-3aw@widow.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) (Outgoing E-mail has about a 40% chance of successfully reaching you. Feel free to respond through the mail, but I probably can't answer.)