March 20, 2012 | The 5 Oldest Blogs in BlogShares

While doing some maintenance today I happened to glance at the ‘blogs’ database which had ordered itself by BSID. Noticing that one of them had a 3 digit BSID (we’re now into the 10′s of millions in terms of BSIDs), I wondered if it was still alive…

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March 15, 2012 | The Great Crash of 2011

Firstly, welcome back to BlogShares! It has been a while.

tl;dr Version (for those who hate reading long blog posts)

• The game is back up
• We recovered all the data
• We think we fixed all the server move-related bugs
• A new game (‘BS3′) is coming
• 4 months free Premium for anyone who was premium when we crashed
• Please report any bugs/problems in The Forums

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November 17, 2011 | Blog SHARES

A couple of days back, the GIC was brainstorming ways to shift activity in the game away from cash and back into shares ownership and shares play. At the time, the total valuation of all blogs was about B$11.8 billion and the total market cap (share price times shares existing) was about B$ 960 billion. Players’ wealth had grown by B$ 4,990,450 billion in the past month, mostly from cash generated through corporate interest.
We would like to motivate you to play shares more vigorously. To start the ball rolling, we have made a small change to one of the game fundamentals that should make shares play more lucrative — we have increased the base value of blogs from B$ 1,000 to B$ 10,000. Since implementing this change, total blog valuation has increased by almost 14%. There’s good money to be made there, but it’s up to you to go find the opportunities and play shares!

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