Acclaim shuts down all games and main site

Mortal Kombat, Double Dragon II, Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands, Crazy Taxi, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter...........

Despite not having any ground breaking titles in recent years, they were responsible for some seriously good games and deserve some respect. Its a shame there are so many that want to jump on the very old and very boring bandwagon to bash this company.

Acclaim has been around for decades in different forms; as far as I know, this latest incarnation had none of the company's former magic to it. But a sad day none the less.

Yeah I know people are going to say "but you should never be happy when a game company dies! D8" and while I feel bad for the handful of people who weren't completely sleazy that were employed with the company, I can't say I'm going to miss them at all.

It's a loss when a game company that has contributed something goes away, or one that at least tried. Acclaim 2.0, riding on the trademark of the somewhat noteworthy company of old was a lame duck reeling in F2P MMO licenses and milking them for whatever they could manage.

Top it off with how they completely botched the Spellborn launch and implementation so badly that the game never stood a chance and its pretty clear this company did nothing but damage. So yeah, so long, and good riddance.

sadly I saw this coming almost 6 months ago when i had days of trouble just trying to log into some of their games. Others had dead download links, or horrible installs. needless to say Acclaim has been plagued by trouble for a long while now. I will remember them foldly for thier older works, however I wont miss the last 5 years of rubbish they've shoved out at the community.

WHAT!?

I'm going to post here in the hope that someone will read it and send on the news to G1...

G1 is now blocked in China! You cant go to their website unless you use a proxy and you can't play their games with a proxy running so all my hard work on 9Dragons has come to a grinding holt!

Please let G1 know about this and see if they can't do something about it at their end.

HOPES UP!

Thats the problem with free to play games... they can go offline whenever they want... all your hard work on 9Dragons is gone up in smoke :S