The end of OS
 

Just saw an announcememnt that Fiesta is being transferred to Gamigo effective immediately and other OS games are being shutdown. This should be interesting.....
:zomg:

It's definitely a bit jarring as I was actually still active-ish on the game. Glad it's not an abrupt halt unlike the other OS games though. I wasn't reading any announcements, so I definitely didn't see this coming.

What happened? x.x Did the company go bankrupt or something?

Have they been having server issues?

I'm playing this other game that has much more severe server issues than Fiesta, and that company is still alive... (the game is older than Fiesta too..)

Or maybe that's where they make money.. build a game up then sell it for good $$.

Nope their whole site is down x.x

outspark.com

When you go to the outspark site (not necessarily Fiesta), all you get is a letter from Gamigo saying that they'll be taking over Fiesta and all accounts, including spark cash, will be transfered.

All other OS games were shut down - only Fiesta survived, probably because it was the cash cow. I had been playing 7 Dragons for over a year, and it was drawing only 1000 or so active players worldwide. My guess is they just couldn't suck enough money from Fiesta to survive.....

Yep, Fiesta is the only survivor of all the OS games. The Luvinia players are absolutely enraged/depressed, and I can't really blame them. Supposedly OS had a discount sale for some highly coveted 30 day item 2 days before they got shut down... talk about bad business ethics.

Oh that's just cruel!!

It feels more than a bit weird. Despite the fact that not many of us play Fiesta regularly any more, it's the end of the company that brought most of us together, and I don't feel sorry for them. :zzz:

"Outspark" still technically exists, it's just now Gamigo US San Francisco. The companies merged. So if you have sparkcash, it's still there, it just transferred to the Gamigo equivalent. Same with your account, items, etc. And any money Outspark has been making as of late is likely already going to Gamigo.

lol

Ah, but the item I was talking about was for Luvinia, which is no longer available to play.

UASHuifdAHSifugAIPsugfas

My reaction to Luvinia being shut down ..
The game seemed to have a large enough population
to keep it going .. guess not though.

If anyone still plays Fiesta, let me know if you will have to transfer or patch the game. I know there are some differences in the US and EU Fiesta, such as names of mobs and such. If all of the names from US Fiesta are gone, the wiki may have to be updated.

it sounds like it's not a merge of server.. coz otherwise you'll have people with same character names...

Yeah it sounds like it won't be changing much... just company name. I was told they're still in the same building, same people, just no longer going by "Outspark".

No need for any transfer, just need to patch your launcher. Fiesta US is going to remain a separate entity from Fiesta EU with slightly different game mechanics and content. The game actually still says "Outspark" on the server selection screen.

As for the staff, from the forums, most people think that the GMs and technical staff are still the same while all the CSRs have been changed or something. Or that might just be what they were hoping for haha.

http://news.priorsmart.com/parallel-...outspark-l7zX/

dun dun dun.... the plot thickens..

Doesn't matter for the company suing them now. Outspark is completely gone. All of their employees and their office are now ran by another company.

Kind of amazed with this, but I guess it shouldn't be that surprising. My last few visits to the world of Fiesta haven't been very blog-worthy personally (crappy community, being absurdly poor compared to current players, etc). Plus there are a bunch of private servers that don't require thousands of hours to cap level or money for cool items, so yeah, understandable...

DRAMAAA~

Hopefully we get some other servers that go up now. OS had them like all shut down, other than project eden or the other "old servers" where players are rebirthed 239183278 times.

Our server Victus is coming back online soon. And Onson/OS/Gamigo rarely go for servers, only once or twice have they actually tried anything.

Also some of you might remember me as Kreain on here, it's been a loooong time.

Damn, I miss Outspark :/, I dont know why but for around 3 years its been a great memory with me.

so.. in short, os only popular game was fiesta /(the only one giving profit) and they reached a point where they could no longer mantain the other games, for this the whole site was taken over by amigo x.x

There are rumors around why Outspark went down. Many thing they over-invested in games that did not bring much profit. There is also the article on Outspark being sued for stealing a patented system for their cash shop system. And the company suing them was going to bankrupt them.

Either way, yeah, Outspark is now Gamigo. It's still all of the same people, same building, but a different company. I have a friend who works for Gamigo and he's over there training the Outspark employees. He might be done now actually.