HSX Forum

Movies

Reply Topic List All Forums

September 6, 2000...

Posted by: RazorHawk on Nov 10, 17:36 in response to ~JPV~'s post Can't remember exactly, but there was a lawsuit involved.

Dear Movie Boss members,

Since its conception over three years ago we, the creators of that game you've all come to love, have maintained our optimism over the many hurdles we have faced. Not created as just "another way to make money," Movie Boss came into existence for one main goal: to give the internet community a different type of movie game that was not only fun but strategic and intelligent.

From its concept, there were many late night meetings among us on how exactly to put together the game. The rules took many hours to lay out. The coding at times seemed extremely overwhelming. Startup and legal costs needed to be acquired. Beta tests needed to be conducted and maintained. Bugs needed to be worked out.

We overcame these hurdles.

Debuting in late February of this year, Movie Boss experienced almost overnight success. After Entertainment Weekly ran its favorable review of the game, we scrambled constantly to keep the game online and operational despite the technical determents we had been faced with.

We overcame these hurdles.

A little over six months later, the creators of Movie Boss face yet another hurdle. Over the past 60 days, we have been working hard to secure advertising revenue to not only keep the game operational, but to expand the game technically. Despite reaching the golden goal of over 100,000 web page views per week and an impressive 10% click-through rate on our banners, companies have been reluctant to expose themselves to Movie Boss players and advertise within the game. Economics of the theater business and weariness of past dot-com failures have been the primary reason behind our inability to make many strides in acquiring the revenue needed to continue Movie Boss.

We are now facing our most challenging hurdle of all.

It is with deep and disheartening sadness that as of September 14th, 2000, Movie Boss will be forced to close its doors to the internet gaming public. Despite its pretty looks and simple concept, Movie Boss is a complex game to maintain and needs more than just a simple web page server to operate. Any monies generated since its debut have been use exclusively to keep the game in operation. Lacking any foreseeable options, we simply have run out of funds to keep Movie Boss going.

Until September 14th, we will continue to work as hard as we can to keep the game alive for not only the next 30 days, but for many months to come. We cannot guarantee success. Knowing our closure may be inevitable, we felt it was important to give our players notice now rather than to simply shut down overnight without any warning at all.

Each of the creators at Movie Boss would like to not only extend our deepest apologies for this unfortunate event, but we would also like to warmly thank each and every player who has made Movie Boss what it is today: a great online movie game supported by many wonderful players. Thank you all very much helping us realize our goal of being part of a great game and a great gaming community.

Alan, Bruce, Gerd and Linda
Movie Boss, Inc.

Sincerely,

The Movie Boss Administration