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To: Lowtek who wrote (615)	8/7/1997 11:17:00 AM
From: Dan Spillane	of 833

You are way off-base here. Microprose's Civilization was never based on the license for the board game -- which just happens to have the same name. In fact, a computer version (Avalon Hill) of that board game has been out for a long time and never sold well at all. It doesn't even make the charts. So, ATVI didn't acquire anything other than rights to a board game which doesn't sell well as a computer game -- contrast that with Microprose's Civ which has sold the million+. I doubt ATVI will have any more success in cloning Civilization than the innumerable others that have tried. Dan *** You posted: According to the Multimedia Wire industry newsletter yesterday the Civilization series that ATVI acquired is indeed the same Civilization series that Microprose has sold more than a million copies of. Don't know if that means anything or not to the long-term value of the stock, but it is a franchise that SBYT apparently has lost to a competitor.

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