Amun-Re Leaving SpielByWeb
On March 17, 2010, SpielByWeb’s Mikael Sheikh announced that the online gaming site’s license to Reiner Knizia’s Amun-Re would not be renewed. As a result, after March 22, no new games of Amun-Re can be started, although all games that have begun by that time can be played to completion.
Knizia designs have been disappearing from a number of online gaming sites of late, with Ra being removed from BrettSpielWelt and Samurai from MabiWeb. At the same time, many Knizia designs have been released as iPhone apps over the past six months, so don’t be surprised if Amun-Re and company show up there, too.
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Mar 17, 2010 at 10:00 PM in Game News, From Cardboard to Digits / 924
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And don’t forget Shotten Totten on Yucata.de. This is really getting bad. Posted by Kevin Rutherford on Mar 17, 2010 at 10:44 PM | #
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Good on Knizia I say - congrats to be taking his successful and good quality board games to a broader audience through a new medium! I’ll be interested to see what plans he has for the i-Pad… Posted by Giles Pritchard on Mar 17, 2010 at 11:33 PM | #
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I don’t see how it’s a broader audience. Everyone has a web browser; not everyone has (or wants) an iPhone. Posted by Doug Orleans on Mar 17, 2010 at 11:35 PM | #
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You may well be right - perhaps more people visit MabiWeb, spielbyweb and Yucata.de etc than will play the games or have access to the games through i-Phones or i-Pads. Either way - congrats to a man turning a profit from his ideas! Cheers, Giles. Posted by Giles Pritchard on Mar 17, 2010 at 11:46 PM | #
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I haven’t played anything on MabiWeb for a while, I might have to jump back in and start up a game or ten this weekend. It is a nice implementation. I will miss it. Posted by Fraser McHarg on Mar 19, 2010 at 02:58 AM | #
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Congratulations to Knizia for making a profit, but it does seem a little mean-spirited to remove the online alternatives. I do not think they reduce his sales in other formats - they might even increase them. Posted by Iain Cheyne on Mar 19, 2010 at 09:37 AM | #
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