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Marathon: Resurrection Forum
Re: Halo and Marathon, M$, wafer thin hypothesis
Posted By: Wolfchild
Date: 2002.12.13.09.38
In Response To: Halo and Marathon, M$, Bungie, thin hypothesis (Grasshopper)
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: So, let's say that the PC/MAC version of Halo has
: significantly more content than the XBox version. I'm
: not talking extra levels here, I'm just talking more
: text, terminal consoles, a convincing tie-in between
: the Marathon and the Halo universe. If that were to
: happen, there would be a percentage of Xbox customers
: that would call/email/write Bungie to say "wtf,
: you're shipping two different games, had I known that
: the PC/MAC version was gonna have all this extra cool
: stuff, I woulda waited for it rather than buying the
: XBox and Halo. Gimme my money back."
: Now, Bungie is gonna say "well, the PC/MAC version
: is Halo Gold, and has additional content," but
: the point is, it requires ressources to field/answer
: all of those calls/inquiries. Ressources = money, and
: no one wants to waste money to satisfy a handful of
: Marathon die hards. If you're talking about M1 which
: sold (I'm making this up) say, 100,000 copies, and 5%
: of your customer base is gonna be pissed off, that's
: 5,000 phone calls/emails/inquiries. Halo, which I
: think has sold over 2,000,000 copies (I could be
: wrong) would involve dealing with, well, you can do
: the math: 100,000 emails/letters/phone calls. That's a
: lot.
: So, there's my thin hypothesis. :-)
Thin indeed. Many - if not most - of the people who bought the Xbox to play Halo were already computer gamers. Micro$oft will want all of those players to buy the Mac/PC version as well. So let's buy into your math above and go further and suppose that half of those 100,000 emailers/letter writers/phone callers end up buying the Mac/PC Halo anyway to get the extra content. So they sell 50,000 additional copies at the cost of ignoring 100,000 messages.
What exactly do you suppose it costs Micro$oft to ignore 100,000 angry messages? Can there be any software company on the planet more accustomed to ignoring angry computer users than Micro$oft?
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