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Señor Erik wrote...


>
>  I didn't follow the issue closely, but I thought it was an accord
> reached in a less antagonistic way, I was using an Amiga at the time and
> near the end the mags where so starved for titles to put on their disks
> that they started sending full versions of utility programs like word
> processors and animation packages. Some magazines had editorials asking
> for a voluntary stop, because the competition to have a better title
> than the other publication was getting out of control.

The applications replaced the games that had previously been
appearing. The editorials were a bit of a whitewash - it was the games
companies that were seeing falling sales, not the magazines.

>
>  IMHO the game companies didn't need strongarming to stop magazines from
> putting their games on coverdisks, if they didn't want to give away
> their titles, they just had to say 'no' when mag people came asking for
> a freebie.
>

The thing is, it was originally done as an advertising thing, so a
given games company got their name all over a magazine. They all got
together and agreed to stop giving software to the magazines.  They
*all* had to agree so that no one got a pecieved marketing advantage
by being able to give away a complete games title in return for the
company name being featured all over a magazine.


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 John -

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