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Okey Dokey...
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I know NOTHING about Gameplay, and this 'post' doesn't help...am I missing something?
Dan2K1 wrote:
> Okey Dokey...
I think he is insulting Gameplay. I used to use them alot they are ok but compared to other internet sites paticulary this one they are utter rubbish, im not just saying that i got tonnes from Gamepaly but i thought there was a catch to SR prices but i was wrong this is better!
> Okey Dokey...
I think he is insulting Gameplay. I used to use them alot they are ok but compared to other internet sites paticulary this one they are utter rubbish, im not just saying that i got tonnes from Gamepaly but i thought there was a catch to SR prices but i was wrong this is better!
I didn't think Gameplay was much competition for Sr anyway, Sr's chatrooms and discussion forums are much better than any webcam + you seem to be giving away 2 games and a DVD of the winners choice every day! surely you'd be loosing a lot of money aswell?
*Looks at Tony's speech and laughs*
Don't buy what you can't afford. That's the first thing they teach you. 1 pound? I'd have bought that.
Don't buy what you can't afford. That's the first thing they teach you. 1 pound? I'd have bought that.
(Hmm - thinks about removing this)
Gameplay was originally a sole trader called Dylan Wilk but he had no internet presence at all.
Along came Mark Strachan who used to run the publisher Domark. Mark owned the name Gameplay.com.
Mark agreed with Dylan to float and merge and also agreed a deal with British Telecom to acquire Wireplay and the domain Gameplay.co.uk.
Upon Floatation at Gameplay PLC paid about £5 million to Dylan for the old Gameplay and Dylan became the youngest Director of a public company. The also paid about £5 million to BT out of the £30 odd million which they raised.
Gameplay PLC began selling on the Sky's Open channel and Sky became a partner too. They quickly went through their first £30 million but because their share price was sky high they managed to raise another £60 million.
They made some acquisitions abroad and lost the whole bundle of £92 million in total, over a period of just 18 months.
As Gameplay the original was losing money they sold it to the management team (not including Dylan) for a crazy £1, fully inclusive of the web site, a chunk of other assets "worth £1 million" and a licence on the domain name (doh).
The new company (which is really the old company that they bought in the first place for £5 million) is now making bullishly impossible predictions about selling one in twenty of all games sold in the UK. It's trimmed back its costs and is trading "normally" and completely separately to the now defunct PLC of the same name.
Gameplay was originally a sole trader called Dylan Wilk but he had no internet presence at all.
Along came Mark Strachan who used to run the publisher Domark. Mark owned the name Gameplay.com.
Mark agreed with Dylan to float and merge and also agreed a deal with British Telecom to acquire Wireplay and the domain Gameplay.co.uk.
Upon Floatation at Gameplay PLC paid about £5 million to Dylan for the old Gameplay and Dylan became the youngest Director of a public company. The also paid about £5 million to BT out of the £30 odd million which they raised.
Gameplay PLC began selling on the Sky's Open channel and Sky became a partner too. They quickly went through their first £30 million but because their share price was sky high they managed to raise another £60 million.
They made some acquisitions abroad and lost the whole bundle of £92 million in total, over a period of just 18 months.
As Gameplay the original was losing money they sold it to the management team (not including Dylan) for a crazy £1, fully inclusive of the web site, a chunk of other assets "worth £1 million" and a licence on the domain name (doh).
The new company (which is really the old company that they bought in the first place for £5 million) is now making bullishly impossible predictions about selling one in twenty of all games sold in the UK. It's trimmed back its costs and is trading "normally" and completely separately to the now defunct PLC of the same name.
Saying how good Gameplay are on Special Reserve? Well I suppose everyone is entitled to their opinion. But this was going a bit to far, apologise to Tony and I'll think about forgiving you.
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