JoWooD - Game Over
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lolozaur




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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 22:09    Post subject: JoWooD - Game Over
Several sources report that JoWooD's insolvency process is moving forward, unfortunately not in the desired direction. Cool Face

* Negotiations with possible investors, and with them the intended restructuring plan, have failed.
* JoWooD pulls back the application to pursue a restructuring plan.
* Thereby the insolvency with a planned restructuring becomes an insolvency without a positive continuation prognosis.
* This means the liquidation proceedings will start shortly.
* The daughter company JoWooD Distribution Services GmbH files for insolvency on April 21st 2011.
* Trading of the JoWooD shares at the Vienna Stock Exchange has been suspended.


http://www.boerse-express.com/cat/pages/952065/fullstory
http://steiermark.orf.at/stories/511571/
http://derstandard.at/1303291148630/Sanierungsverfahren-bei-JoWooD-gescheitert
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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 22:10    Post subject:
Give or sell rights of Gothic back to Piranha Bytes Mad
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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 22:11    Post subject:
PB already have the rights back Cool Face
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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 22:12    Post subject:
Gothic 5 is going to be by Piranhas, that was confirmed by PB. JoWood only had rights for 1 title.
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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 22:12    Post subject:
http://www.bluesnews.com/s/120603/piranha-bytes-getting-gothic-back


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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 22:13    Post subject:
The only game I remeber them from is Rally Trophy.
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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 22:14    Post subject:
Europa 1400 was nice
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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 22:20    Post subject:
I liked the Chaser. Too bad it was buggy as hell.


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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 22:21    Post subject:
tainted4ever wrote:
I liked the Chaser. Too bad it was buggy as hell.


I never had any bugs with Chaser, and yeah it was a damned good game, but man... one of only TWO games to ever give me motion sickness. That damned underwater ship graveard Vomit
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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 22:25    Post subject:
what about spellforce ;(?
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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 22:30    Post subject:
As far as I know JoWood never made a single game, they only publish (and ruin) games. Spellforce was made by Phenomic Game Development.


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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 22:31    Post subject:
Time to bump the epic Soldat thread.
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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 22:37    Post subject:
hope that Spellforce: Faith of Destiny gets released by someone else . Maybe Deep Silver??


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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 22:41    Post subject:
They did publish a few good games. Silent Storm being one of them. I actually bought Soldat on a whim many years back..Crying or Very sad
I may just load it up again one day to remind myself of how bad games could be even in the good 'ol days.
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snoop1050
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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 23:34    Post subject:
joewood was well known for buggy games with buggy ai and budget titles..

anyone lol remember that RTS they made about the time of the amd XP series of cpus, lol the AI were speeded up massively if you had a fast cpu Cool Face making the game unplayable for almost everyone who bought it until a patch was released how the hell does somrething like that get past QA?
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PostPosted: Thu, 21st Apr 2011 23:50    Post subject:
Maybe if they don't even have QA Cool Face
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PostPosted: Fri, 22nd Apr 2011 00:00    Post subject:
Silent Storm series was their best.Sure wish that series would get a 4th game.
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PostPosted: Fri, 22nd Apr 2011 00:41    Post subject:
Chaser was an excellent game!


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PostPosted: Fri, 22nd Apr 2011 00:57    Post subject:
well, i will remember jowood for strange funy game name :Neighbors From Hell

i remember myself waiting for the release of this one, years ago:D



i think that it's sad even if most of the games they made were bad...still:(


what a days Smile
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PostPosted: Fri, 22nd Apr 2011 01:07    Post subject:
Neighbors from Hell was also good!


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PostPosted: Fri, 22nd Apr 2011 02:00    Post subject:
Gothic 4 was so ......


[spoiler][quote="SteamDRM"]i've bought mohw :derp: / FPS of the year! [/quote]
[quote="SteamDRM"][quote="b0se"]BLACK OPS GOTY[/quote]
No.[/quote][/spoiler]
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PostPosted: Fri, 22nd Apr 2011 02:05    Post subject:
Neighbors from hell..

holy shit.. i totally forgot about that game
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PostPosted: Fri, 22nd Apr 2011 02:07    Post subject:
MannyK wrote:
Neighbors from hell..

holy shit.. i totally forgot about that game


Might as well download the pack .


[spoiler][quote="SteamDRM"]i've bought mohw :derp: / FPS of the year! [/quote]
[quote="SteamDRM"][quote="b0se"]BLACK OPS GOTY[/quote]
No.[/quote][/spoiler]
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PostPosted: Fri, 22nd Apr 2011 02:14    Post subject:
What does this mean for Dreamcatcher?


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Mister_s




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PostPosted: Fri, 22nd Apr 2011 09:58    Post subject:
I like Jowood. They didin't test the games properly, some games were released in an abominable state, but they did give a lot of new devs support to do their own thing.
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PostPosted: Fri, 22nd Apr 2011 10:51    Post subject:
Funny how everyone bad mouths Jowood, but then sits here and lists game after game they enjoyed

I also liked Jowood. Silent Storm is one of my all time favourite games. Heck 1 of only 2 games I've gone to the trouble of importing (space rangers being the other)


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PostPosted: Fri, 22nd Apr 2011 11:32    Post subject:
What? Seriously guys, don't you get it? JoWood never made a game. They just published games and ruined IPs from time to time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoWooD_Entertainment


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Mister_s




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PostPosted: Fri, 22nd Apr 2011 11:33    Post subject:
So who gave the money to make those games possible? The developers ruined the IPs, Jowood played a part in it.
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PostPosted: Fri, 22nd Apr 2011 11:39    Post subject:
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Piranha Bytes ruined Gothic, not JoWood who fucked them with their hunger for money, then fucking the franchise even more with the forth installment in the Arcania franchise. Oh yeah, don't you guys remember that great franchise named Arcania? Laughing


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