"Gorky 17" for MOS

[Ross_Geller]

@Mongo

Gorky17 may not be the sole reason for a person choosing  OS4 over MOS, but it could be a contributing factor.  After all, software availability is important for a platform to become viable, and even more so in such a small market with a direct competitor.

Also, certainly by the sounds of this thread, if Gorky 17 isn't ported then Hyperion and Eyetech may be making a few more sales than if Gorky 17 was ported to all platforms.

[Ross_Geller]

@JoannaK

Don't worry, I wasn't actually hyping the game (although I'm not certain how you came to that conclusion).
I was trying to point out that in such a small market anything can sway a perceivable percentage of the community, so that Gorky 17 could actually help affect A1 sales, thus trying to show that Mongo's view was flawed.  I have no interest in Gorky 17 in any way, it's purely one more software title that could help sway a person towards the A1/OS4 rather than Pegasos/MOS.

I will admit that I was careless with my final sentence, I don't know how I got it into my head that there was more than one person in the thread who seemed very eager to lay their hands on a copy of the game for an amiga.

[Ross_Geller]

JoannaK:

Like this idea of yours of someone actually purchasing Amigaone for playing this Game

You make it sound as if I was saying they would buy an AmigaOne solely for this game.  My idea is that this game may be what tips the scale between buying an AmigaOne, a Pegasos or something else entirely.  Please note that I'm not saying that the scales are balanced before we add Gorky 17, merely that it's the little extra nudge the consumer may need to consider the AmigaOne the option for them.  I would use an analogy, but that could get dangerous!

Most of us simply don't have the option of buying a new platform for just one game (no matter how great the game is), so I would never advocate such a thing.  However, a platform that offers a good OS, good apps and some good games is much easier to consider purchasing because its utility will be far greater.

And no... havign it to some exotic name-platform ain't that important.

It would be important to those already owning an exoticly named platform and can't afford the money or space for a console.  They're the troublemakers here ;-)

(I hope this time my views are clearer, it's always impossible to tell until someone else reads it :-) )

[Ross_Geller]

Gorky17 may not be the sole reason for a person choosing OS4 over MOS, but it could be a contributing factor.

No.

So you're saying it's impossible for Gorky 17 to have any effect whatsoever on a person's choice of platform?  That's a shame for Gorky 17 if you're right, that in a market with so few games it still has absolutely no pulling power.

Also, certainly by the sounds of this thread, if Gorky 17 isn't ported then Hyperion and Eyetech may be making a few more sales than if Gorky 17 was ported to all platforms.

No, it sounds like Hyperion will be making less sales of Gorky 17.

I can't see your assertion in the thread.  Hyperion may have lost one sale, but then again they may have gained an A1/OS4 buyer, it is impossible for us to judge iamaboringperson's want of this game.

And Hyperion will be making less sales than what?  Than if they ported to MOS as well?  That's true.  But your sentence states that Hyperion will make less sales, it never asserts any difference between the way the situation is now and any hypothetical situations.  So we have to assume that you're applying "less sales" to the current situation.  

But for the current situation there is no given reason that Hyperion are going to have less sales when the only people buying the game will be OS4 and Mac users, and I cannot see either of those groups of consumers boycotting Gorky 17 purely because it's not also available for MOS.  (This would be the point where somebody then starts up a thread boycotting Gorky 17 :-P)

(I'm sorry if I'm going over the top, I think I've jumped rather too hard at the chance to have such a discussion.)

[Ross_Geller]

@JoannaK

Yea, you're right, it is all meaningless :-)  good practice for me though, I've never really been in a position where I could have a discussion/argument ("argument" in a good natured sense that is)... I guess it's pretty obvious I'm not too good at it hehe

And some people have moved it to ann.lu?  That's a shame, it destroys any hope of a linear discussion.  And no, it's definitely not me on ann.lu! :-D I'll stand by my views, no matter how flawed they might turn out to be (in which case I'll try to be a good man and admit I was wrong :-) )

I think I'll go see if I can find that thread over at ann.lu, just to see what's been said.  I'm certainly not going to wade into any discussion over there, I found this stressful enough.