To all Studios,

Over the last three years The Movies Online has built an extensive archive of comments, thumbnails, ex-members and of course movies, movies and more movies. This year sees the third anniversary of the game and its website which is in my opinion a reason to look back on the years and tell you where we are right now. One other reason for telling this is that we’ve recently had some problems with the hardware of our servers. It meant that TMO was subject to some downtime.  You should see our servers a bit as the average pensioner; old, dusty, it’s going downhill and the inevitable will happen at some point.  Because the TMO servers are running on their last legs we wanted to strongly recommend everyone – in case you haven’t got a local copy anymore – to back up their online movies.  We don’t want you to lose any of your films in case the poop hits the fan.

That being said The Movies is still very much Online and running smoothly at this point. Over the past three years the system had to handle around 150 thousand movies which is the equivalent of 375 days of back-to-back video footage! o_O  In a combined effort all users have submitted over 830k of comments and we’ve had 29303 active Studios over the years. This is pretty impressive considering the game itself sold 29304 copies. The latter might be a slight lie but overall we’re very happy with the numbers all of you have produced on The Movies Online and we hope it continues for a long time to come.

And we have a cherry to put on this wonderful cake!  As part of the three years of online movies ness we’ve decided to splash out and treat every Studio with 20 MB of extra webspace to upload their movies!  So next time you login you’ll see that your upload space is raised for your new flicks. But as mentioned before, don’t forget to back them up!