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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 00:14:14 +1100
From: Byron Forbes <hosh@ar.com.au>
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Subject: Re: GPL - Excellent article by Avault GPL reviewer.
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Here's my theory - 
   GPL will sell steadily over a long period of time, much like ICR2 and GP2. It will have
cult status and will sell on reputation alone for a long period. If sales are merely
trickling now, then as word spreads sales will pick up or at least remain at a steady
rate. Even I was turned off by a sim based on the 1967 season at first. When people start
to get word of the sort of tracks in this sim they will have greater interest. As people
see others doing well at GPL we will have the "oh well, if he can do it so can I" type of
deal. Simmers will move to the next level of ability. Rest assured that those of us who
can handle GPL ok are laughing in amazement at anyone wasting their time with ANY other
sim atm! :)

Harald Boers wrote:
> 
> Michael Powell heeft geschreven in bericht
> <910171723.27923.0.nnrp-11.c2deb209@news.demon.co.uk>...
> >True - especially if a hard-headed publisher exec looks at the relative
> >sales of NFS3 and GPL it may be very difficult to get publishers to buy in
> >to hard-core only sims.
> 
> I doubt that GPL has been developed as a moneymaker. I think it was the
> driving-engine that it was about, and GPL was something Kaemner very much
> wanted to do regardless of commercial succes. More or less as a fan of that
> era. It was a now or never project and GPL  is sort of a test-vehicle for
> the Big Moneymakers: NASCAR2000 and CART 200x. I hope he get's the chance to
> make those..............
> 
> Harald

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