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The Data Storage Report - July 1996 Volume 11, Issue 7

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DEVELOPERS SELL GAMES BY GIVING THEM AWAY

The 1996 SIMBA Game Player Survey conducted by the popular Internet site Happy Puppy Games, SIMBA Information and The Greenfield Consulting Group found that giving away games over the Internet is the way to sell the product.

The 2,000 computer game purchasers surveyed, said they bought software based on an earlier shareware demo of the products downloaded from the Internet. Worldwide shareware sales are estimated at $350 million, according to the Association of Shareware Professionals.

One example of shareware’s popularity is the Duke Nukem 3D Screen Saver and Entertainment Pack. Four weeks before its retail debut, the shareware version was released over the Internet by Rhode Island Soft Systems, Woonsocket, R.I. It broke shareware records with 200,000 downloads (the average shareware program is roughly 20,000 downloads).

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