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From: Karl Frank
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 09:51

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Stephen R. Marsh wrote:

> I didn't know that.  Do you have the details?  I thought that WCP had about
> 700k full value sales vs. over 2kk for WC3.

No, I don't have the numbers. Yours might actually be right. You are 
mixing profit and sales value however. WC3 sold more, but cost MUCH MUCH 
more to do, so WCP did have the higher profit margin AFAIK.

> The thing that saddened me is that Origins cut the funding and the filming so
> that the full plot of WCP did not get filmed.

I think quite some of it was released in SO and more was to be in WCP2 
that was never relased.

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From: Karl Frank <karl@karl.frank.name>
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Subject: Re: Wing Commander 6 coming soon
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