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Posted on 26 November 10 at 00:48 |
Maximum score cap will also be removed
Some of you may remember an announcement back in May regarding the charitable status of XBLA game Chime. According to a SentUAMessage video on Inside Xbox with Andy Farrant, UK Xbox Live producer, and Dan Maher, Xbox Live editor for Europe, the proceeds from the game would no longer have been donated to charity after June 3rd, 2010. Well, to put it bluntly, they were wrong. Zoë Mode quietly continued to donate 100% of their royalties to OneBigGame, who are raising money to benefit children worldwide.
Well this is a public service announcement to warn you that the extended exclusivity contract is finally coming to an end. From 9.00am UTC on December 1st, 2010, only 5% of royalties from the game will continue to be donated to charity. Ed Daly, general manager at Zoë Mode, is urging people to buy the game before the contract ends:
“While 100% of our royalty is donated we feel we can freely encourage those who have not had a chance to purchase Chime to use this last opportunity to fully support the OneBigGame initiative. We have very much enjoyed working with OneBigGame on this unique venture and although this marks a change for Chime it is far from the end of the relationship.”A title update will alter the in-game statement regarding the charitable contributions. However, this will also remove the cap on the maximum score that players can achieve. The cap resulted in the leaderboard being topped with identical scores. Brynley Gibson, game director, explains the decision:
“Now that this cap has been removed it will finally be possible to discover the best Chime players in the world. This fix has been a long time coming and is absolutely one made for the fans; we hope it tides them over until we can announce our plans for where we are taking Chime next.”Here is a link to the Games Marketplace for those of you who want to purchase the game before the exclusivity contract runs out. |
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 00:52 |
Well that sucks.
But since they've been doing it for this long, I suppose it's still awsome of them to donate all that money. |
Message me if you know anyone who will sell me CE and LE items. |
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 00:56 |
Wow, well done to Zoe Mode for continuing the good work!
You have to buy this game people, one of the greatest puzzle games made...if only it had more levels.... |
Last post: 31 May 12 at 06:00
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 00:57 |
| At least they donated quite a lot of money. |
Last post: 14 Apr at 09:58
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 01:13 |
| Finally got round to picking up Chime last week and it's a great little game. Took a couple of plays to work out what I had to do but very easy to pick up. |
Last post: 07 May at 16:52
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 01:14 |
| Didn't buy into the whole 'charity' thing, though it was a fairly mediocre puzzler. |
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 01:15 |
| its very easy to pick up, but its very difficult to complete |
Sunny-fish melon jelly ballin' the jack! |
Last post: 11 Feb at 23:16
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 01:18 |
| If people want to donate im pretty sure they donate anyway. I would donate money for a good cause. But im not buying this shitty game. |
Last post: 06 Apr at 05:51
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 01:22 |
| Sucks it is no longer 100%. Still, it had a good run. |
Last post: 28 May 12 at 14:04
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 01:55 |
| First off, it's awesome that they donated 100% for as long as they did, not to mention longer than they were getting credit for it. Second, the game isn't shitty it's a very decent puzzler which is fun to play but a beast to complete. It's well worth the $ you pay for it, charitable or not. |
Last post: 16 May at 17:31
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 01:55 |
I'd recommend that anyone who doesn't yet have this gets it NOW!!!
Seriously, it's only 400 points, the music is great and chariddee gets some $$$...
Plus the "hardest" achievement is glitched so 100% isn't unrealistic;.
Everyone wins!!! |
Crikey there's some freaks on HUKD misc... |
Last post: 18 May at 12:46
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 02:07 |
| I picked this up for 400 msp. It's an okay game. Just confusing and difficult. |
Last post: 06 Oct 12 at 01:36
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 02:46 |
| Never heard of this game before... any good? |
Last post: 14 May at 01:51
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 03:26 |
| Great game if you enjoy electronic music. Some big names in the genre contributed tracks to this. |
Last post: 11 May at 02:36
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 03:44 |
| It was a great game and awesome that they donated all that money to charity. Such unappreciative achievement whores on this site. |
Last post: 16 May at 14:49
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 03:47 |
| Great game! Go buy it. |
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Last post: 13 May at 05:40
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 03:50 |
| Well then I can feel good and say I bought it when all the proceeds went to charity. :) |
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 04:09 |
| At least they made donations for a while.. |
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 04:20 |
SickboyWPG said:Never heard of this game before... any good?Yes. I would call it a cross between Lumines (graphics) and Rez HD (music). It's a "mellow" puzzle game, if there is such a thing. 
The price is right, and knowing that they're still donating the proceeds to charity until the end of Nov. is a big plus.  |
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Last post: 16 Sep 11 at 05:26
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Posted on 26 November 10 at 05:54 |
I love this game and I'm glad I picked it up before the charity contract ran out. In a time where the XBLA price point is rising, this game remains at 400 points ($5) and has still given proceeds to charity.
I got 200/200. It's certainly not impossible. Anyone who likes puzzle games should enjoy it and achieve points fairly easily. You get a 50 point achievement just for starting a game and another 100 points is easily obtainable in an hour or two.
The only marks I have against this game is some control issues and a lack of levels, but for 5 bucks, I can overlook these small qualms! |