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Re: * Fastest Climber: Galactic Civilizations 2 *

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From: Carsten Engelmann
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 00:00

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Dan Davis (danno5@ix.netcom.com) wrote:

: It's interesting to quantify that success.  A recent interview on OS/2 e-zine 
: quoted the CEO of StarDock (maker of GalCiv) as saying that total sales of 
: GalCiv (including some beta versions) was roughly 550,000 copies.  Quite a 
                                                    ^^^^^^^
The number might be 50000 (???). Only 4 million people use OS/2 all over
the world and I just don't believe that an 1/8 of all bought GalCiv.
Civilization for MS-DOS/Windows/Mac/Amiga sold 700,000 times and that was a 
real bestseller. I think that GalCiv is not even available here in Germany.

: few for a 'dead' OS as so many claim, particularly when you consider that 
: most of those copies were sold here on the net because retailers refuse to 
: give shelf space to OS/2 products.  Their loss (obviously).

This thread is unnecessarily crossposted to many groups.

-Carsten

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From: engel@yacc.central.de (Carsten Engelmann)
Subject: Re: *** Fastest Climber: Galactic Civilizations 2 ***
Date: 1996/01/13
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