PocketMatrix

So they want the full game or just the demo?

With all the PDAs I've bought that included games (Same with Desktops) the games were almost always just the demos preinstalled. If you're not getting some money, even pennies on the retail price(A common ratio of monetary exchange when dealing with prepackaged software), but giving out the full product then you've nothing to gain and only more to lose.

After all, the people who get the PDAs who may of bought your software prior now don't have to.

So basically if you're giving out the whole game, you should be recieving some monetary return for doing so. Promotion is useless if you're giving away the whole product.

Btw, it's very common in the Shareware world for large distributors and CD manufacturers to offer, say, $10,000 for the rights to include a full licensed copy of your software on their CD distro, etc. Many highly popular shareware products made their distro numbers through deals like this. You end up with 300,000 units "sold", but only make 30 cents a unit. Doesn't result in large total per-unit profits, but when you concider just how many individual units you have to sell to get $10,000 it's a tasty option.

Of course. They want full version for free. According to the discussion, they esimate that 250000 copies of free coupon will be distributed.

For what my opinion is worth (I'm a techie, not a marketter/salesperson):

If you can use your current full-product as an easy lead-in to a second/better/etc version, then it's definitely worth considering. Give them a free, full, "MyGame 1" and then take the real sales on "MyGame 2 - the revenge".

If that's not possible, or the idea is not easy to add to (say "Tetris" vs "Tetris 2" - the latter may not offer much more beyond the first and thus not be worth much money to somebody with Tetris)... then I agree with Hosed: I'd want money for it, even if it's a nominal sum per unit sold.

Or I'd give them a demo version say "here you go", and then take the sales yourself when people order the full version.

Full product for no return? No way.