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In the long run, how much damage can Foley do?

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IntruderAlert:

Ultracade is commercial market so sure you wll see them in theatres like this one:
http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~locations/PlaceSearch.php3?code=vastereg

danny_galaga:

and namco are making easy money licensing for other products anyway. like the 5-1 joystick i bought. easy, easy money. and no real threat to their cabs. ok, ive seen here someone made a mini-cab with one but as long as they dont offer a whole buncha games on one piece of hardware they should be fine.

edit: as an example of how to price yourself out of the market. i went and saw madagascar last night. the cinema used to have normal pricing and, like all cinemas, not many patrons. well the new owners dropped the pricing dramatically. the most you pay is $6.80 ($5.00 student). thats AUS dollars. three movies last night (including mine) were SOLD OUT! madagascar was in a 500 seat cinema. now thats smart. another example is one of those games you can download off msn or yahoo. you know, trial and buy. i tried one and like it. but they were asking $20 so i just downloaded a crack for it. if they asked $4.99 i would have paid. a bird in the bush...

btoddkelley:

Ahhh the concept of elasticity of demand!
Ed=percentage change in quantity demanded/percentage change in price

revenues are maximized where Ed=1

sorry, not teaching this summer. regressing to last spring!

oh and, no one will buy foleys roms.
Todd
resident economist

blackzc:

Can someon give a quick rundown of what happening?

Who is foley?
How can he tradmark somthing somone else created?
How he charge for games that belong  to nintendo/taito/capcom/ect?
 Is he going to be in contract talks with all these companies?

I read through the post but it still not making complete sense to me.

Whats scares me is it seems this guy is trying to become the judge/jury/exicutioner of the rom world.

And all the big game makers may just let him do it. It would take all the heat off of them.



Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: blackzc on June 20, 2005, 01:32:56 am ---Can someon give a quick rundown of what happening?

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http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,32730.0.html (nineteen pages)
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,36738.0.html
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,38190.0.html
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,37734.0.html
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,37779.0.html
Sorry for all the reading.

--- Quote ---Who is foley?

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Top dog at an arcade machine company called Ultracade.

--- Quote ---How can he tradmark somthing somone else created?

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Are you talking about ROMS or MAME?  Legally he can't, but that didn't stop him from trying to  say he owned the trademark to MAME and no one else could use it.

--- Quote ---How he charge for games that belong  to nintendo/taito/capcom/ect?
Is he going to be in contract talks with all these companies?

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He might negotiate with them and obtain rights to re-sell the ROMS and pass on a royalty fee to them.  He also might say he has rights to them and sell the ROMS and then send out letters saying not to use them if any of the game companies complain.

--- Quote ---I read through the post but it still not making complete sense to me.

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Read the linked posts.

--- Quote ---Whats scares me is it seems this guy is trying to become the judge/jury/exicutioner of the rom world.

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Yeah, except the biggest change might be that ROMS would only be readily available from him.  ROMS are readily available now, and MAME is readily available now, so if you are set now you only would miss out on future emulated games and improvements to the MAME core.

--- Quote ---And all the big game makers may just let him do it. It would take all the heat off of them.

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There's no heat on the big game makers.  They own the copyrights and IP rights to the games.  They're in the driver's seat.  It might help legitimize the MAME project, or it might be the match that starts the legal bonfire that shuts MAME down or drives it commercial or underground.  I think that's what everyone is waiting to see.

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