SEIV Only A Nitch Game

[Atrocities]

I wonder if sending game shops an SEIV poster would work. Ask them to display it for a copy of the game.

Who knows maybe that would work. For every 10 copies sold through that store give the store a free copy of the game as an incentive.

When I was in the Firearms business there were many incentive programs like this out. Sell our product and we will give you discounts and even free merchandise. Of course you had to sell a lot of stuff and buy a lot to get the discounts, but at the end of the year it was well worth it.

(Mostly appearl, accessories, and such.)

I would love to walk into EB Software and see a SEIV poster by David Gervais hanging on the wall with a coupon to order Space Empires IV through Shrapnel with free shipping.

They use the coupon which tells which store the game was ordered through so the store gets credit.

After say 10 or even 20 coupons are used from the same store to buy SEIV, send the store a free game to sell. Offer them a 10% discount on the purchase of 10 or more games from Shrapnel.

Hell if you think about this it could work for all of shrapnels games.

Just a thought though. Remember it takes money to make money and Shrapnel can wright off all this as marketing on there taxes and gain a huge tax break.

But the bonus would be that the games become more visable.

[Phoenix-D]

Originally posted by Ragnarok-X:
Keep in mind this game was not buyable in a normal shop like MoO 3 und GalCiv was. In addition this game is going warez since the release, i remember it was downloaded thousands of times through networks like sharereactor. And it didnt even had ONE copy protection.

Which matters not a whit because copy protection is easily broken. As of right now all it does is inconvience the end user, many of whom go to sites to find cracks for their legitimately bought games.

Some of them have no option; protection can render a game unplayable. And of course since these cracks are out there the games are still pirated. SE Starfury has a CD check for example, but I play it and have not had the CD in my drive since install.

[Suicide Junkie]

As I recall, the CD check was dropped in the latest SF patch.

[Atrocities]

What killed Tribes 2 was the crappy way they had there patch system designed to operate. The other thing that killed tribes 2 was that there copy protection actually worked and many hackers and pirates could not play. Ohhh to bad. By the time the hacks came out, the game had lost its novelity.

Half-life = Most pirated game ever made.

I favor copy protection, smart copy protection.

[Phoenix-D]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
As I recall, the CD check was dropped in the latest SF patch.

Apparently so. Doesn't change the point, though. (I was doing the same with 1.00 and 1.08)

[Paul1980au]

Copy protection should be a component to any game - nullifies pirate activity. In terms of SE5 adn SE4 i do my best to promote it on different forums i visit - hoping it sells a few games.

[Phoenix-D]

Originally posted by Paul1980au:
Copy protection should be a component to any game - nullifies pirate activity.

As I just got through pointing out..no, it doesn't. There is not a game on my hard drive or in my collection that hasn't been cracked.