years: More than 14,500 reports, over 200,000 news and about 60,000 videos: The magazine thanks for your loyalty and says goodbye in autumn

In the last more than 20 years, the editors of years has written about 14,500 reports, about 220,000 news placed online and published more than 60,000 videos, while the community has written more than 5 million posts in the forum. There were countless constructive discussions in the last more than 7,500 days, a lot of polemics, praise and criticism. This encouragement has motivated the editors to always do their best - thank you to all who were involved!

Nevertheless, we must inform that with the deadline of 31 October 2021 the editorial care of the portal is set. Until then, the above-mentioned texts in the archive of course also add numerous other reports, news, etc.

This step was enforced by economic measures that impossible for a future-proof operation of the online magazine in this form with this personnel expenses as well as a changing marketing landscape impossible. At the same time, this is a consistent continuation of the corporate strategy, which has been increasingly focusing on the core business branches since 2017. All editors were informed internally in the preservation of appropriate deadlines about this step.

years thank the editors for many years of cooperation and wishes you much success on your further career path.

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The new era of the years GmbH is fully focused on the global GameServer service business 4Netplayers as well as advanced software solutions for gaming developers such as the ODIN communications software or the multiplayer toolset scill.

This Phillip Schuster, Managing Director of the years GmbH: This step is not easy for us. I accompanied the portal as a founder of the company from the first hour. years was a pioneer in many ways and has become one of the first online Magazines in the German-speaking market developed an enormous status. We do not only want to thank all the former or current editors, but above all the readers who accompanied the portal for years and partly decades and actively shaped. years will now be completely focused on the core business How to focus serverHosting, software development as well as other services. Instead of looking at finished games from the outside, we want to enable developers and games publishers worldwide to develop and operate more social, more interactive and more complex games by making turnkey, easy-to-integrating building blocks Offer for all game platforms.