Campaign for Mac PTW

[dojoboy]

Al Schilling's email address:

aschilling@destineerstudios.com

Generic letter:

Dear Mr. Schilling,

I am contacting you to express the wishes of many, that your company, MacSoft Games, would choose to port Sid Meier's PTW over to the Mac. A decision to port PTW would also be consistent with past business decisions regarding the Civilization series. In addition, I would expect a PTW Mac port to sell very well in spite of the MP cross-platform inability with PC users. Many Mac users I've spoken with are interested in PTW for its additional civilizations, features, and MP capabilities with their Mac-user friends. It is my hope that MacSoft Games chooses to port PTW in the near future. Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Tom Herring (dojoboy)
Apolyton and CivFanatics Center member

[bradman]

Re: Campaign for Mac PTW

Originally posted by dojoboy
Al Schilling's email address:

I can't advise against this strongly enough. If you want to show your support for a Mac PTW port, the last thing you should do is organize an e-mail spamming campaign.

[dojoboy]

This was meant to be a positive effort, Brad.

[FlameFlash]

bradman: then how would you recommend us to get a PTW Mac port campaign going?

[Panag]

Re: Re: Campaign for Mac PTW

Originally posted by bradman


I can't advise against this strongly enough. If you want to show your support for a Mac PTW port, the last thing you should do is organize an e-mail spamming campaign.

hi ,

, ..... a campaign with positive requests and encouragements tends to have positive results , ......

have a nice day

[FlameFlash]

That's what our thoughts were on it, panag... that's why I'm wondering about bradman's logic.

[Drake Tungsten]

I'd have to agree with bradman on this one; no one wants to have to deal with thousands of emails. Subjecting this guy to an unwanted deluge of emails isn't going to help your cause.

Why don't you start one of those online petition things? I have my doubts about their effectiveness, but it seems like a smarter play than this ill-fated spamathon.

[FlameFlash]

First off, it won't be "thousands of e-mails" and second off, online petitions are even less effective.

The original idea was an actual letter-writing campaign. You know, snail mail? Though in this day and age e-mail seemed the more popular and effiecient solution.

After all, IMHO this isn't spam, it's a group of people from here (myself, dojo, Gatekeeper (anybody else?)) who would really like to see PTW ported. How else are we supposed to let Macsoft know that we'd buy it if they made it?

[Panag]

hi ,


, maybe we could have a chat with them , ....

some feedback would be welcome , .....

have a nice day

[FlameFlash]

chat would be nice, but 'till this summer I know I wouldn't be able to participate with them... likewise we'd need our chat program back up and running here.

[Panag]

Originally posted by FlameFlash
chat would be nice, but 'till this summer I know I wouldn't be able to participate with them... likewise we'd need our chat program back up and running here.

hi ,

try this > http://apolyton.net/cgi-sys/mchat.cgi?channel=apolyton

well it does not have to be a chat , a turnthread would also be nice , ....

have a nice day

[FlameFlash]

Not familiar with turnthreads...

[Panag]

Originally posted by FlameFlash
Not familiar with turnthreads...

hi ,

a chat but in thread form

we had it a long time ago with the first civ demo game , .....

have a nice day

[FlameFlash]

Kinda like what we're doing now, eh, panag?

[President iGreg]

Sending requests to companies asking them to make a product is far from Spam. They want to know what people will buy. Smart businesses are always interested in such feedback from consumers.