Re: [GZG] Market share in SE?

Before the weekend, Doug wrote:

>***
>However, there are also a growing number of *old* FT players who switch
>from FT to other systems - and the reasons they give for giving up on
FT
>are precisely the loopholes and imbalances.
>***
>I'm curious, Oerjan, as to who 'they' are? Most of us have mentioned
we're
>talking local groups or national conventions. What is your sample base?

A combination of UK conventions and general-SF (ie. not GZG-specific) 
discussion boards, polls etc. on the 'net over the past couple of years
or 
so - starting well before GeoHex stopped handling the GZG US market. 
Unfortunately the use of handles other than your real name often makes
it 
difficult to tell exactly who a person is on the 'net :-(

>Is this your experience with folks moving to Starfire, of which I've NO

>experience?

No. As far as I know Starfire and Full Thrust don't compete with each
other 
- while both are space combat games the former is a rather 
background-specific campaign game while the other is a generic tactical 
game, so they fill quite different niches.

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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