: As you will have seen from the banner on the main page the site has been shut down completely.

: I paste below the email that was received with regards to this.

: I am sorry to say that we do not even now have the option of this being aa Pay to Play site.

: As you will have seen from the main page all Case's Ladder members can use the Account Move Tool in order to move their entire account to another Case's Ladder.

: The following sites have Cribbage - Pogo, Yahoo, World Gaming Center, GameDesire and Renaissance Games - and I am sure that the ladder members on all these sites would be pleased to see new players.

: As this is my HOME LADDER the sites I personally favour would be:-

: www.igl.net/wgccrib
: at
: World Gaming Center
:
: www.wgcenter.com

:
: AND

:
: www.igl.net/rengames
: at
: Renaissance Games

: www.rengamesonline.com

:
: I will request that a Newsletter is sent to all members with regards to this also

:
: Viv

: A-la-Viv, OpManager
: Case's Ladder

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:
: I have some really bad news to pass along. We have been contacted by Activision and have been told that they own the rights to the gaming software at Hoyle Online, and they want the site shut down immediately.

: Encore owns the rights to the Hoyle name/brand, but the rights to the gaming software were not included, so Activision/Vivendi still owns the gaming software. The rights to use the gaming software have expired and cannot be renewed. We (along with Encore) have tried to work out a deal with them so that we can keep the site up, but we have been unsuccessful.

: Inquiries from players can be sent to [email protected]

: Please do not encourage players to contact Encore or Activision, because unfortunately, the decision is final this time.

: I'm really sorry for this sudden notice without any advance warning, but it was completely out of our hands. The programmers are in the process of replacing the gaming site pages with a message to the players, but the Hoyle forum will not be available.

: Sincerely,
: Rhonda