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ORIGINAL: sterckxe
As soon as you guys stop behaving like drunken hooligans whenever you're on the continent

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

"If you are going through hell, keep going" - Winston Churchill

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ORIGINAL: JeanNYGUARD

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ORIGINAL: Gil R.

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Travel and Lodging costs may be costly, however the reward from such a venture will be more beneificial in the long term. By providing a presence at these events you will gain attention from thousands of tourists and reenactors. You will corner the market in that area on all products relating to gaming. These reenactors and tourists will become aware of your company and the products you sell. Along with selling your current titles... you will gain long term customers, who will visit your website and invest in your future products.

Travel and lodging costs also may be deducted if you have employees that are reside within the region. On my visit to Gettysburg... travel and lodging costs amounted to approx 200.00. Me and my wife drove from Upstate NY (Garnerville, NY) and my wife, a Hilton employee recieves a discount of 39.99 per night. This was also at a time when gas was approx 4.39 per gallon.

I would recommend you contract the work out to a group (Preferably fans who are fimilar with Civil War / American Revolution titles) that live within the region (NY, PA, MD or VA). Also if you contract out the work you will be able to pay the contractors less than you would your own employees.

I appreciate where you're coming from, but this is simply more complex than you realize. You have to bring large monitors, since you can't use small laptops and expect to draw attention. (And if Matrix is demoing multiple ACW titles, that means multiple monitors -- otherwise, Pocus, Joel Billings and I will end up enacting a new sort of civil war, as we fight for the lone monitor.) You have to be set up to accept credit cards, since people don't walk around with $60 cash to plunk down for a game, which may not be easy to do in the middle of a field. You have to be prepared for rain because of all the equipment. And there are several other considerations, as well. So in principle, I agree with you, but it's far from a simple undertaking, and far from certain that the benefits will significantly outweigh the costs.

The operation will be difficult... alot of logisitics will need to be sorted through and completed... theres no doubt in that, however not attending such events will be more of a loss. The total revenue and publicity gained from such a event will overshadow any expense. I recommend you try at least one reenactment ... and get a taste of this type of market.

One thing you need is publicity. During my tour of the event I questioned a number of reenactment units for contract purposes (Im in game development myself) and when I questioned them about the types of gaming products they enjoy... none of them were aware of Matrix games nor any of its products. I think this is a missed opportunity for the matrix games as well as the people, who they cannot play your great titles.

If you would like I could assist your staff with preparations and logistics... since I will be returning to these events for my work.

Feel free to email me @ JeanNYGUARD@yahoo.com

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ORIGINAL: Gil R.

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ORIGINAL: JeanNYGUARD

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ORIGINAL: Gil R.

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Reenactment:
Travel and Lodging costs may be costly, however the reward from such a venture will be more beneificial in the long term. By providing a presence at these events you will gain attention from thousands of tourists and reenactors. You will corner the market in that area on all products relating to gaming. These reenactors and tourists will become aware of your company and the products you sell. Along with selling your current titles... you will gain long term customers, who will visit your website and invest in your future products.

Travel and lodging costs also may be deducted if you have employees that are reside within the region. On my visit to Gettysburg... travel and lodging costs amounted to approx 200.00. Me and my wife drove from Upstate NY (Garnerville, NY) and my wife, a Hilton employee recieves a discount of 39.99 per night. This was also at a time when gas was approx 4.39 per gallon.

I would recommend you contract the work out to a group (Preferably fans who are fimilar with Civil War / American Revolution titles) that live within the region (NY, PA, MD or VA). Also if you contract out the work you will be able to pay the contractors less than you would your own employees.

I appreciate where you're coming from, but this is simply more complex than you realize. You have to bring large monitors, since you can't use small laptops and expect to draw attention. (And if Matrix is demoing multiple ACW titles, that means multiple monitors -- otherwise, Pocus, Joel Billings and I will end up enacting a new sort of civil war, as we fight for the lone monitor.) You have to be set up to accept credit cards, since people don't walk around with $60 cash to plunk down for a game, which may not be easy to do in the middle of a field. You have to be prepared for rain because of all the equipment. And there are several other considerations, as well. So in principle, I agree with you, but it's far from a simple undertaking, and far from certain that the benefits will significantly outweigh the costs.

The operation will be difficult... alot of logisitics will need to be sorted through and completed... theres no doubt in that, however not attending such events will be more of a loss. The total revenue and publicity gained from such a event will overshadow any expense. I recommend you try at least one reenactment ... and get a taste of this type of market.

One thing you need is publicity. During my tour of the event I questioned a number of reenactment units for contract purposes (Im in game development myself) and when I questioned them about the types of gaming products they enjoy... none of them were aware of Matrix games nor any of its products. I think this is a missed opportunity for the matrix games as well as the people, who they cannot play your great titles.

If you would like I could assist your staff with preparations and logistics... since I will be returning to these events for my work.

Feel free to email me @ JeanNYGUARD@yahoo.com

Thanks for the offer, but if WCS or Matrix were to go to such an event we'd have to handle all the planning. And I myself have visited every major Civil War site other than Fredericksburg and the Wilderness, so I have a fairly good sense of the lay of the land (so to speak).

I agree with you that there are Civil War buffs who haven't heard of these games, and should be reached somehow. I'm working on it!

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ORIGINAL: Gil R.

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ORIGINAL: JeanNYGUARD

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ORIGINAL: Gil R.

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Reenactment:
Travel and Lodging costs may be costly, however the reward from such a venture will be more beneificial in the long term. By providing a presence at these events you will gain attention from thousands of tourists and reenactors. You will corner the market in that area on all products relating to gaming. These reenactors and tourists will become aware of your company and the products you sell. Along with selling your current titles... you will gain long term customers, who will visit your website and invest in your future products.

Travel and lodging costs also may be deducted if you have employees that are reside within the region. On my visit to Gettysburg... travel and lodging costs amounted to approx 200.00. Me and my wife drove from Upstate NY (Garnerville, NY) and my wife, a Hilton employee recieves a discount of 39.99 per night. This was also at a time when gas was approx 4.39 per gallon.

I would recommend you contract the work out to a group (Preferably fans who are fimilar with Civil War / American Revolution titles) that live within the region (NY, PA, MD or VA). Also if you contract out the work you will be able to pay the contractors less than you would your own employees.

I appreciate where you're coming from, but this is simply more complex than you realize. You have to bring large monitors, since you can't use small laptops and expect to draw attention. (And if Matrix is demoing multiple ACW titles, that means multiple monitors -- otherwise, Pocus, Joel Billings and I will end up enacting a new sort of civil war, as we fight for the lone monitor.) You have to be set up to accept credit cards, since people don't walk around with $60 cash to plunk down for a game, which may not be easy to do in the middle of a field. You have to be prepared for rain because of all the equipment. And there are several other considerations, as well. So in principle, I agree with you, but it's far from a simple undertaking, and far from certain that the benefits will significantly outweigh the costs.

The operation will be difficult... alot of logisitics will need to be sorted through and completed... theres no doubt in that, however not attending such events will be more of a loss. The total revenue and publicity gained from such a event will overshadow any expense. I recommend you try at least one reenactment ... and get a taste of this type of market.

One thing you need is publicity. During my tour of the event I questioned a number of reenactment units for contract purposes (Im in game development myself) and when I questioned them about the types of gaming products they enjoy... none of them were aware of Matrix games nor any of its products. I think this is a missed opportunity for the matrix games as well as the people, who they cannot play your great titles.

If you would like I could assist your staff with preparations and logistics... since I will be returning to these events for my work.

Feel free to email me @ JeanNYGUARD@yahoo.com

Thanks for the offer, but if WCS or Matrix were to go to such an event we'd have to handle all the planning. And I myself have visited every major Civil War site other than Fredericksburg and the Wilderness, so I have a fairly good sense of the lay of the land (so to speak).

I agree with you that there are Civil War buffs who haven't heard of these games, and should be reached somehow. I'm working on it!