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- Bigpoint Launches Seafight Game on hi5 in 20 Languages
nline game maker Zynga to open Baltimore office
Bizjournals.com
Brian Reynolds previously of both Firaxis Games and Big Huge Games in Baltimore County is opening an East Coast office for San Francisco-based. The company makes games used on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
Notification of Late Filing of Annual Report on Form 20-F and …
MarketWatch
87%)(”The9″or the “Company”) filed a Form 12b-25 Notification of Late Filingwith the United States Securities and Exchange Commission today regarding thelate filing of its annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 312008. n April 16 2009 The9 announced that it had learned that BlizzardEntertainment’s World of Warcraft would be licensed to another China-basedonline game company following the expiration of the license agreement betweenBlizzard Entertainment and the Company on June 7 2009. World of Warcraftaccounts for a substantial majority of The9’s revenue. The Company isfinalizing its financial reporting treatment and related disclosures resultingfrom the non-renewal as reflected in its financial statements as of and forthe year ended December 31 2008. As a result of the non-renewal of the World of Warcraft license agreementas well as taking into consideration certain other events that occurredsubsequent to year-end in connection with certain other licensed games andlower than expected operating performance of one of its games the Companywill record impairment and certain other charges in its financial statementsfor the year ended December 31 2008. As a result of these charges netincome for the year ended December 31 2008 presented in its annual report onForm 20-F is expected to be between 55% and 75% lower than net income for thesame period presented in the Form 6-K filed by the Company on February 242009.
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Bigpoint Launches Seafight Game on hi5 in 20 Languages
IGN
“Given our multi-lingual global user base deploying in-language premium content is a major priority for us” said Ramu Yalamanchi founder and chief product officer of hi5. “Bigpoint shares this world view and has been a leader in translating their innovative Flash-based games to a wide variety of languages which makes them a good partner for hi5. “As one of the world’s largest online communities hi5 provides a very compelling distribution channel for our best-in-class online games” said Heiko Hubertz CE Bigpoint GmbH. “With localized versions of Seafight for virtually every hi5 user regardless of language we will be able to jointly tap into new markets that English-only gaming and social sites cannot effectively address. The partnership is the latest in hi5’s strategy of aligning with leading game developers worldwide to distribute their titles through the hi5 Games channel to the site’s 60 million plus monthly users. With global advertising support and a virtual currency interface for collecting in-game payments hi5 is a compelling new distribution and monetization option for third-party game developers. The companies expect to integrate additional Bigpoint titles into hi5 in the future.
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Bigpoint is a con.
I am tired of them conning me time and again and I have only been associated with them for nine months.
The support team never seem interested in anything the paying customers have to say, they just sweep our complaints under the carpet. I have been unable to play the game on 3 occasions because of coding errors and have dropped in rank by what cost me roughly over £100 and hard work to attain. Not once did I receive an apology or any compensation. Therefore, I have wasted money on their game. I call it being robbed.
And the support team constantly accused me of being a cheat which was later proven to be another coding error. I was told by a support member that even if I attempt to go higher with this that any email will end up back with them, that’s how obnoxious they are. “Fine, any communication in english gets back to the english supporters anyway, nevermind where you sent it”
All complaints are swept under the carpet. Their site has a gold premium package that costs £35 for 12 months use, they are giving people 9 months use in the hope that people won’t notice, seeing as it continues to the next year if not cancelled. I unexpectedly cancelled mine which they didn’t notice, and a month later my premium ended after only 9 months of use. When I noticed this and enquired about it to their so-called support team, they blocked my account. And that is after I have spent hundreds of pounds on their site. They didn’t like the fact that I discovered their scam and have covered their tracks by messing with my account.
DarkOrbit is running one big scam and their coders are useless, maybe the people at the top at bigpoint did or didn’t know about this but, I believe they do. I suggested they look into this, although, I know it will all be denied.
Their support team keep telling me to go away and get a lawyer, they know how difficult it will be for me to prove anything.
They have no respect for people whatsoever and whine like babies when we lose our temper with them.
How can a site that is so big and popular be so nasty to people?
I am very disappointed with this site, and it has made me very discouraged about joining any other sites.
Please don’t waste your time and money on this con of a site.
The people at DarkOrbit are running a con and I’m sure Bigpoint know about this seeing as the so-called support team are linked to Bigpoint.