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So Interplay is alive after all.

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:35 pm
by TigerRaptor
Well so much for them staying dead.

http://www.interplay.com

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:03 pm
by Thenior
about 6 months ago I read about them...


The website said they owed a ton of money, and currently had only two unpaid employess.

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:05 pm
by DCrazy
They filed this notice of inability to file documents today. :P Herve Caen's phone number is right there in the filing. :)

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:06 pm
by Lothar
As of last quarter, it appears they have $547,000 in assets and $17,500,000 in liabilities.

Ouch.

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:07 pm
by DCrazy
They made $3 million over the past fiscal year, however.

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:09 pm
by Palzon
cool only 14.5 million in the red :roll:


:P

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:14 pm
by Pun
Heh. They're claiming to be developing MMO titles with Steam-style game download and interface. Pretty ambitious for a company that's broke.

oh and check thisout.

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:06 pm
by Iceman
punisher wrote:Heh. They're claiming to be developing MMO titles with Steam-style game download and interface. Pretty ambitious for a company that's broke.

oh and check thisout.
Huh? Interplay serving up D3 help? What's this world coming to?

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:38 pm
by Duper
Iceman wrote: Huh? Interplay serving up D3 help? What's this world coming to?

Uh.. another over inflated Stock exchange?

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:44 pm
by Krom
I like the mspaint logo, nice touch.

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:59 pm
by JMEaT
Krom wrote:I like the mspaint logo, nice touch.
++

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 11:36 pm
by Top Wop
Old Yeller is still croaking THIS LONG? Damn got any more bullets left in that piss-weak shotgun to finish off the job?

Just DIE ALREADY!!!!!

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:26 am
by Jeff250
Doesn't anyone else enjoy rooting for the underdog?

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:15 am
by Top Gun
Didn't we figure out that this site was most likely fake a few months ago?

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:43 am
by Diedel
Just find out the site owner:
Registrant:
INTERPLAY ENTERTAINMENT CORP.
100 N. Crescent Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
US

Domain Name: INTERPLAY.COM

Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :
Technology, Information
hostmaster@iply.com
100 N. Crescent Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
US
Phone: +1-123-555-1234
Fax: 800-555-1212

Record expires on 13-Dec-2006
Record created on 14-Dec-1993
Database last updated on 24-Oct-2005

Domain servers in listed order: Manage DNS

NS61.WORLDNIC.COM 216.168.228.33
NS62.WORLDNIC.COM 216.168.225.202

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:34 am
by Pun
Top Gun wrote:Didn't we figure out that this site was most likely fake a few months ago?
I never heard that. Where did you hear it?

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:35 am
by DCrazy
TG: no, the site is very real. After all, it's just a few links to their SEC filings and an email address for "investor relations".

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:44 am
by Top Gun
punisher wrote:
Top Gun wrote:Didn't we figure out that this site was most likely fake a few months ago?
I never heard that. Where did you hear it?
Someone suggested it in a similar thread a few months ago; I can't remember who. That person was of the opinion that whoever had done so had changed the frontend of the site (or some equivalent technical term which I didn't understand :P). I mean, it could very well be legit, but it makes absolutely no sense for any company to put up a website looking like that, even one in as dire straits as Interplay is. If it was legit, why didn't they just put back their old corporate site, or some other version of it?

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:47 pm
by Mobius
That site is for the creditors and receivers, nothing more I suspect. We did a similar thing for an energy company in New York when they went belly up.

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:51 pm
by DCrazy
TG: Bandwidth. When you're broke and you need a website, why would you spend tons on bandwidth for lots of images when plain text does fine?

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:02 pm
by Top Gun
I can understand that, but with the small amount of traffic they're most likely getting, I would expect them to at least be able to spare a few images that don't look like they were made by a 5-year-old in MSPaint. :P

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 7:36 pm
by Tricord
DCrazy wrote:TG: Bandwidth. When you're broke and you need a website, why would you spend tons on bandwidth for lots of images when plain text does fine?
I wonder how much you pay for bandwidth.

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:54 pm
by Aggressor Prime
I'm getting this: "No web site is configured at this address."

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:54 pm
by DCrazy
Tricord: Replace "bandwidth" with "data transfer". That better? IPLY probably no longer owns the server running their website, and if they do it's sitting on some crappy connection.

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:22 am
by Tricord
I mean, bandwidth or datatransfer or however you want to call it, is relatively cheap. It is certainly not what brought them down financially, and I'm sure it's the least of their worries right now if they are indeed trying to work something out.