From xavier at antoviaque.org  Wed Mar  5 19:49:30 2008
From: xavier at antoviaque.org (Xavier Antoviaque)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:49:30 +0100
Subject: [Ryzom.org] Good and bad news
Message-ID: <20080305194930.7b2815b2@antoviaque-laptop>

Hello,

The bad news: yesterday, the Paris commerce tribunal ruled that Ryzom
should go to Spiderweb, for 213.000? ($324.000) without giving us a
chance to bid.

The good news: the liquidator has confirmed there has been a mistake
during the procedure, he should have informed us. We can thus attack
the decision, the liquidator is proposing to restart the procedure from
scratch if we offer more.

The issue is that, right now, we don't have enough to make such an
offer.


== Details ==

At the end of last month, we received a mail from the second
liquidator, telling us to reach the first liquidator; it meant the
fight between the two liquidators was over or soon over. We thus sent
an email and a mail to the liquidator, to warn him we would want to
make an offer.

The procedure is then to wait to be contacted by the liquidator, who
tells everyone when the offer should be sent. Aside from waiting,
G?raud (the lawyer who follows the case for us) was contacting the
liquidator directly, who was on holidays until yesterday. Thanks to
Sashimi, we learned that the court audience just happened, and we had
to make a deal with the liquidator to avoid being discarded.

The issue now: the offer we have to outbid is very high: we would have
to offer at least 230-250K?, and Spiderweb (SpiderWeb International
Limited, W1W 6NS Londres, 5th Floor 26-28 Hallam Street, not the
American gaming studio) would have the opportunity to increase its bid,
which is already too high given the current circumstances. There are no
more employees, no servers, a large portion of the player base has
already moved on to other games, and we don't know if we would be able
to get the server data (including the characters).

We are currently evaluating solutions, we have until tomorrow to have a
great idea. If you have one, be sure to post it on the boards:

http://www.virtualcitizenship.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=6488#6488

-- 
Xavier.