#Xwing
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Hi Matt,
as is said elsewhere in this thread – we can't afford to keep buying bigger
hard disks to play games… anyway don't CDROMs cost less to produce than 5
HD floppies? Its about time some decent games were on CDROM! can u pass our
feedback on to your friend ?
thanks
dw
I definitely agree that the size of games is rapidly outstripping the average
user's hard disk capacity. Believe me, I've strongly requested that my friend
push for CD-ROM.
It's not always cheaper to put software on CD-ROM. For a large production run,
the cost is around $2000 plus $1-$2 per disc. You need to either sell a lot of
CDs or be replacing a lot of floppies for that to make sense. Also, there are
still very few CD-ROM drive owners, compared to the number of PC owners. If a
company only distributes on CD-ROM, they cut themselves out of a large
potential market. If they distribute CD-ROM and floppy versions, the publisher
and the delaer have to juggle how many of each to produce and keep track of two
different products. If you put both in the same box, you're adding extra cost
to every box to satisfy a small minority.
All that being said, I still think a CD-ROM version makes sense. I think the
number of XWING customers with CD-ROM drives is high enough to justify the
overhead. And the idea of zero hard disk space is very appealing.