Randy
I liked your article on adventure gaming. I can think of an avenue
that Sierra and any of the other companies should take. Take all
the old games that they have ever produced, create quality digital
references (PDF or whatever) in place of all paper docs that usually
accompany the games, then sell these old games online in downloadable
only form. How hard could this be to implement? I think that this
is a nice way to offer the old games for those who still want them
and add to their profit margin. Using online download sales has got
to be the most cost effective system that can be used. Just think,
no boxes, paper manuals, cd-roms or the time that it takes to put
all these items together in a box and move the product to a store
shelf, no employee costs other than setting up the web based sales
situation initially and a little occasional maintenance. They would
only have to implement this system and sales will grow. Accepting
credit cards, paypal and money orders would make it easy for purchases
and gain the greatest customer base.
Old games sales will not slow down new games sales. I know from
my own personal game buying experience that if I see a new game that
is a must have I will buy it no matter what it takes and no matter
what I have bought in the way of older games. I practically have
a store shelf full of games.
I don't know if you have any contacts with Sierra, but if you do
maybe you could pass this on to them? I would really like to be able
to do so but they don't seem to have an available email contact on
the web.
Just some of my thoughts. What do you think?
Matt T.
I have passed your email on to Sierra, but for what its worth, they
really don't seem to care much for their old games and fail to recognize
neither the financial windfall that could be gained by selling them
nor the thousands of new fans that could be brought into the fold.
