As I didn’t hear any reply from Smilegate last week, I emailed them on Friday asking for any update. They replied this morning.

The only news is that they are still sorting things out their end, and for us to be patient basically.

I wish I could give you a better update, but that’s all I have.

We’ve added a forum games section to the forum – if you want something to do, go have a browse around there!

Also, a few members are getting the wiki back up at http://wiki.turfbattles.co.uk and i’m sure they’d appreciate your help!

Aeriagames has removed the entire Turfbattles forum, website and wiki from their servers.

It looks like this is officially the end of Turfbattles for Aeriagames.

If you know of any players who had not signed up to the forums at turfbattles.co.uk, tell them they have a home here now that the Aeriagames site is down.

As I said in my previous post, I will post an update in regard to the game as soon as I get one.

On Friday June 18th, 2010, the Aeria Games Turf Battles servers were taken down.

Now we’re in the week following the Aeria Games Turf Battles closure, we hope to continue our conversations with Smilegate.

We’re going to have to play the waiting game now. The ball is in their court – we’ve just got to wait for them to make a reply. This could happen any time from now onwards.

I’ll post on the forum and the website as soon as I get any further correspondance from Smilegate.

Until then, notify all the players you know to sign up to the forums and post their interest in the game. Without a substantial amount of support, we won’t be able to get the game back.

Currently, this is how the support for Turfbattles looks:

Total signups to the forum as of 21st June 2010: 93

Average daily views on the site: 210

Breakdown of views by continent:

Asia: 66.5%
Europe: 20.5%
America: 13%

As far as i’m aware, none of the asian players have signed up to the forum or posted their interest in donating to the game.

Here’s a message for the Chinese players:
如果你想要玩TurfBattles,那么就来论坛注册吧。

In reply to my email, Smilegate have said that once they have sorted the situation of Turfbattles out with Aeriagames, we’ll continue our email conversations, and start talking about things more specifically. But until that’s all finished and sorted, we can’t really go into further discussions.

I expected this would be the case anyway – they were interested in getting my initial proposal to see if it was serious. Now that they see I am serious, hopefully they will continue email conversations with me once they’ve finished up with the current TB.

And as you all know, I wasn’t going to get into costs etc until TB had closed anyway, so we could get a proper idea of the user base (as per who signs up to this board)

That’s all for now – I probably won’t do another update until around the 18th of June when Smilegate restart our email conversations.

I recieved a reply to my previous email from Smilegate. The situation has changed again!

So, despite the fact that they wish to continue the Korean Sephiroth game, they’ve given me the option of either aquiring an EU license, or aquiring the game source code – and continuing the Turfbattles game as a separate project.

While the difference between just having a license, and having the source code is quite big – the cost will presumably also be quite different.

If we are to make this game exactly how we want, then we really need to work together as a community and see if we are able to obtain the source code.

Please if you haven’t already, post in this thread whether you are able to donate: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=14

The more people that post in there about their situation, the better idea we will have of whether this is possible.

Thanks everyone