GOA (computer game company)
| GOA Games Services Ltd.
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| legal form | Limited |
| founding | 1997 |
| resolution | 2010 |
| Seat |
Dublin , Ireland
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| Branch | Computer games publisher |
| Website | www.goa.com |
GOA Games Services Ltd. , GOA for short , was a publisher of computer games. The subsidiary of France Télécom, founded in 1997 and dissolved in 2010 (or division of the France-Télécom subsidiary Orange ), specialized in multiplayer games, especially online games. The headquarters were initially in Paris and in 2008 it was relocated to Dublin , the capital of the Republic of Ireland . Before the end of GOA, the company gradually gave up or abandoned the computer games it was responsible for.
Well-known massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) developed by Mythic Entertainment and distributed and supported by GOA in Europe are Dark Age of Camelot (2001-2010) and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (2008-2010) . GOA attached great importance to the translation and localization of the games for the European market (see also regionalization ). From 2009 to 2010 GOA drove the Defense of the Ancients -Alternative League of Legends by Riot Games in Europe.
The online portal goa.com focused on providing free online games. GOA also worked on the development of free MMORPGs, which were to be financed through micropayments for convenience functions without having to pay regular contributions .
Since the end of 2009, GOA has given up or given up one project after another. In December 2009, Warrior Epic , Kart 'n Crazy and Mytheon were abandoned. In February 2010 Dark Age of Camelot was returned to Mythic Entertainment, in May 2010 League of Legends to Riot Games and finally Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning , also to Mythic Entertainment, in June 2010 . In July 2010, the Asian anime golf game Pangya was also handed over to Galaxy Games .
Web links
- goa.com/de . Former official homepage. Archived from the original on March18, 2006; Retrieved February 11, 2011.
- Company Profile . In:cpl.ie. Archived from the original onAugust 22, 2008; accessed on February 11, 2011.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release on the release of Warhammer Online, September 18, 2008.
- ↑ Press release with the introduction of GOA, August 6, 2008.
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Official announcement about the Warrior Epic Server shutdown, December 1st, 2009.
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Official announcement about the Kart 'n Crazy Server shutdown, December 1st, 2009.
- ↑ Official notice ( memento of January 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the return of Dark Age of Camelot to Mythic Entertainment, January 7, 2010.
- ↑ Official notice ( memento of May 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the return of League of Legends to Riot Games, May 13, 2010.
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Official notice on the return of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning to Mythic Entertainment, June 25, 2010.
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Official announcement on the distribution of Pangya, June 29, 2010. Markus Rohringer: Pangya. Handover to Galaxy Games completed . In: Onlinewelten.com , July 24, 2010, accessed February 11, 2011.