Subject: Re: SUSPECT: RE: [casual_games] multiplayer?

[Kim Pallister]

KF,

I think what you are hearing from the list is that everybody's pretty skeptical about the 2-mouse approach.

If you still want to support it, and believe there's a market there (more people like your friend :-), GREAT! Maverick thinking is what changes the world.

In the meantime, though, if you want to get distribution, you are going to have to face some realities of the market. Namely, make sure you have a good, solid, robust, high-quality, polished single player game experience. If the game can stand on it's own like that, great. If after that it has a mode that you think will find an untapped niche of customers, more power to you.

Kim Pallister
Business Development
Microsoft Casual Games

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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:15:16 +0530
From: "k f" <mamaji4 at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: SUSPECT: RE: [casual_games] multiplayer?
To: casual_games at igda.org
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I have a friend who has always wanted to play real-time multiplayer games
like Air-hockey on the net, but he just can't seem to, at any time of day or
night, because he's on a dial-up. And he's been trying that for the past
month. He doesn't want to spend $$$s on a console. He doesn't mind bringing
his mouse over for a friendly one-on-one. But now I'm going to have to tell
him that he'll have to change his mindset, because nobody in their right
mind would cramp around a PC and do something like that.

After hearing all the counter arguments I have arrived at the following
conclusion. My firm will be the only one turning out games with support for
multiple mice. :-) :-)