Video game companies hope for more users in corona crisis

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Video game companies hope for more users in corona crisis

This includes how the purchasing power of the customers will be after the economic downturn or how well the game development will work from the home office.

"I’ve done almost 100 quarterly earnings conference calls and none have been marked by so much uncertainty about the future," activision blizzard chief bobby kotick told analysts after presenting the quarterly results. Currently, however, the popular title "call of duty" is one of the driving forces behind the company’s success. The use of the smartphone game "candy crush", which was also purchased, has also increased significantly since march.

In the first quarter, activision blizzard increased its profit by 13 percent year-on-year to 505 million dollars, as the US company announced after the US close on tuesday. Meanwhile, revenue fell two percent to just under $1.8 billion as subscription sales could not quite offset the decline in game sales.

Electronic arts increased sales by twelve percent to almost 1.4 billion dollars thanks to growth in digital business. The profit doubled to 418 million dollars.

EA benefited from interest in sports game series such as "FIFA" and "madden NFL", among others. For fans, it’s a way to keep up with their favorite sports while all the competitions are on hiatus, said top manager blake jorgensen. "But we don’t know what will happen in the long run if the championships are suspended for even longer," he admitted.

The big question for the industry now is how player activity will develop when the corona restrictions are eased and lifted. Activision blizzard expects a return to normality to take some time, said chief financial officer dennis durkin. This bodes well for the gaming industry, which can offer shared experiences at a distance. "We are already seeing this among the younger generation of users, for whom gaming has become an integral part of their entertainment world."

Historical photos of ludwigsstadt on a cd

Ludwigsstadt was first mentioned in a document in 1269. The 750. This year’s anniversary was celebrated with a colorful series of events. The historical photos shown at the festive reception were very well received. These are now available on CD in the town hall of ludwigsstadt.

A wonderful opening concert, a festive reception with a varied supporting program and an atmospheric torchlight procession, a large 750th anniversary market with many activities in the city center, exciting exhibitions with pictures and striking milestones in the city’s history – the series of events put on by the project group consisting of representatives of local associations, other committed people and mayor timo ehrhardt at the helm in cooperation with the city of ludwigsstadt was something to behold. The anniversary program attracted an overwhelming number of visitors to the city.

150 pictures and an accompanying text

An impressive highlight of the event was the festive reception on the 4th of march. May formed in the hermann-sollner-hall. The supporting program included in particular a performance by the theater group of the elementary school ludwigsstadt as well as an interesting slide show with many historical pictures, conceived by district local historian siegfried scheidig. The many visitors were deeply impressed by the exciting photo documentation, which – in response to many requests from the public – has now been recorded on a CD available for purchase. In addition to the more than 150 photos, the CD also contains an accompanying text with interesting information about each picture. The visual documents came from various sources, such as the state archives of bamberg, the city archives of ludwigsburg, the slate museum of ludwigsburg, the photo archive of siegfried scheidig from lauenstein, and private sources. The very time-consuming and laborious compilation of texts and pictures was once again the responsibility of siegfried scheidig.

The picture cd "750 years of ludwigsstadt – in pictures is in the city treasury in the 2. The first floor of the town hall can be purchased for 15 euros each..

It is the reception center for the remnants of forgetfulness: the kitzingen lost and found office. This is again richly stocked. The reason: "the fewest things are picked up," says andrea klinger, who has been hoarding the collection of lost things for a good six years now. A few hundred found objects, from small earrings to bathing suits to mopeds, are waiting in official custody for their owners or to be auctioned off.

The world must be rich, or it must be a world without borders: that’s the impression you get when you look at the list of things that were left behind in the lost property office last year: among other things, almost 50 bicycles, a moped, four necklaces, 13 pairs of glasses and about 600 to 800 items from the aqua sole swimming pool. And then there is the unknown who gave away his bridge.

Among the rude rats of humanity are also contemporaries who lose entire key bundles and do not put a fub in the lost property office. 75 keys, individually – among them a brand-new porsche key – and in a larger group, are in a box at andrea klinger’s home. Neighbor is a coarse bookcase full of books, even those with intellectual depth, like "the art of clear thinking", which probably made the owner fall in love for a moment.

Aqua sole is the best customer of andrea klinger and her colleagues. The many pieces from there go like the rest into the lost and found book. With the name of the discoverer. What can be worthwhile for the. Because there is the finder’s fee. For high-value pieces up to 500 euros, there are five percent of the value in it, from 500 euros three percent – payable by the owner.

But because the latter rarely appear in the lost property office, the collection of forgetfulness comes under the hammer once a year. Next auction date: 12. April at the kitzingen fire station, 9 a.M. According to klinger, whatever is not sold will be donated to poor people in the eastern european country via rumaniahilfe.

Some forgetful people also benefit from the fact that real research is done in the fundburo. For example, in the case of an expensive breitling watch (price: a good 3,000 euros), where the lady from the lost property office first tracked down the seller and then used him to find the owner. Several telephone calls were also necessary to find the owner of an EC card via the bank: "you have to try to do justice to your customers somehow," klinger emphasizes.

It doesn’t always have to do with lost causes. Sometimes the lost and found office can be a bit animalistic. Like not so long ago, when an attentive contemporary picked up a hedgehog wandering around on a traffic island and handed it in to the authorities. The "owner" promptly got it back – mother nature in a forest stump near castell.

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