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Technology Stocks : GTIS - Will it be a Phoenix or not ? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chris McConnel who wrote (1697)	3/11/1998 8:15:00 AM
From: Brent Donalson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2319

I agree enough is enough, its hard to find useful information among the hours and hours of wasted energy spent posting about one person, Scooot Miller.

To: Chris McConnel who wrote (1697)	3/11/1998 10:35:00 AM
From: Scott Miller	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 2319

>>> Second, how significantly is Gathering of Developers going to change the economics of games development and publishing. If G.O.D. is able to convince enough developers they will earn more money on their games, publishing them through G.O.D., will GTIS by able to find enough content to keep it's distribution mechanism in full operation? <<< (Chris, thanks for the legitimate post--how refreshing compared to the lengthy time-wasting messages often posted here. <g>) Gathering will only sign a few teams, no more than around a dozen, leaving *plenty* of great teams for the many other publishers. Gathering will not everyone under the sun, instead focusing on the cream of the crop. >>> Even if G.O.D. does not land all the developers, the ones that do sign with GT will be able to use G.O.D. as leverage to negotiate better contracts with GT and other publishers. This could hurt GT bottom line. <<< Smart and experienced developers create bidding wars between publishers already (as we've done many times), so Gathering isn't going to help much in that way. And all publishers are affected, not just GT. However, since the Gathering released the ten developer commandments (which has, btw, created an immense stir in the industry, based on the 100's of emails I've gotten and other Gathering board members have received) the level of awareness among developers has improved considerably, and this means that publishers in general may find it harder to sneak bad deals (from the developers perspective) past new and even experienced development teams. >>> Also, if G.O.D. is offering the best royalties, will they be able to pick and choose only the cream of the crop games and reject the ones with lesser market potential, leaving GT with all the less profitable games. <<< As I said, this affects every publisher, not just GT. I expect all publishers to adapt, though. Scott Miller Apogee