Industry News: Playnet = Bankrupt... WW2OL to follow? Posted by Steve "Spike" Wyatt @ 3:41

In this little piece is the news that Playnet has filed for bankruptcy. A sad loss for the industry, as they were willing to take a risk... but unfortunately one that didn't pay off.

However, the questions about World War II Online continue. Pie4Foo did some investigation and turned up the fact that the game servers are remaining on-line. He spoke with a former Playnet employee and affiliate, who told me that the site was simply down because they were moving their web servers to different ISPs.

Obviously, however, the company IS in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy (reorganization NOT liquidation), so there are some significant hurdles to bypass. Right now its livelihood is perhaps more on the short-term. So the game still works, but...well...who knows for how much longer?