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迪士尼旗下Playdom关闭了Acclaim公司的所属游戏

发布时间:2010-08-31 14:46:07 Tags:,,

五月,当Playdom首次收购Acclaim Games公司时,人们很惊讶Playdom为何收购一家发行大型多人在线游戏和休闲游戏的公司,而并不是人们普遍认为的Mortal Konbat类社交游戏公司。而最近更令我们吃惊的是这家公司即将关闭旗下的所有游戏,置其1500万注册用户于不顾。

acclaim games

acclaim games

在Acclaim Games的官网出示了一条简短公告:“自2010年8月26日起,所有的Acclaim游戏将暂停服务。”虽然如此,但RockFREE和该公司正在开发的大型多人在线游戏Kogamu似乎仍在运营中 。此外,该公司还提出会对未使用的虚拟货币“Acclaim Coins”和上个月游戏9Dragons中的交易行为进行补偿。

如果Playdom仅在收购的几个月后就决定关闭Acclaim Games的所有游戏,那当初又为何要收购它呢?这或许与上个月Playdom自身被迪士尼公司收购有一定的关系。也许是Playdom公司的母公司觉得该公司并没有预计的发展潜力,又或者是两家公司都认为Acclaim的真正价值是于公司员工和将来的发展潜力,而并不在于该公司目前的游戏。不管是何原因,我们都将持续关注这一社交游戏联合的下一步发展动态。

acclaim

acclaim

Back when Playdom first acquired Acclaim Games back in May, we were surprised that the company published MMO and casual games, instead of games like Mortal Kombat. We were almost equally surprised recently to find that the company will be shutting down all of its games, leaving 15 million registered users out in the cold.

A short note on the Acclaim Games web site notes that “all Acclaim games will no longer be in service effective August 26, 2010,” though as Gamasutra notes, games like RockFREE and the company’s still-in-development MMO Kogamu seem to still be available. The company will be offering reimbursements for unused “Acclaim coins” virtual currency and for purchases made in the game 9Dragons over the past month.

So why purchase a company if you’re just going to shut down its games a few months later? Well part of the decision might have to do with Playdom’s own acquisition by Disney last month. Perhaps Playdom’s new owners saw less potential in the company’s games than the original purchasers did. Or perhaps both companies simply agreed that the real value in Acclaim was in its employees and its potential for future hits, not its current game catalog. In either case, It will be interesting to see what comes next for this piece of a growing social game conglomerate. (Source:games)


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