Game-Hosting sues GGL for $40,000

Crossfire.nu reports that the Global Gaming League is facing legal action from Game-Hosting after allegedly failing to pay its page hosting bills.

GGL announced in January 2006 a deal with Game Hosting, which saw the Swedish-based game server provider become the host of ClanBase's website.

However, GGL stopped paying its hosting bills just a few months into the deal and allegedly owed Game-Hosting a fee in the region of $30,000 by April 2008.

As a result, Game-Hosting has filed a lawsuit against GGL for $40,000 in unpaid bills, and, according to GH sales manager Eirik Pedersen, a Swedish court has ruled in their favour.

"Since GGL is a US company the Swedish ruling must now be transferred to US courts and enforced there," Pedersen told Crossfire.nu. "GGL has owed us money for over 1 year now and counting.

"We have several times tried to resolve this before taking it to court but GGL didn’t even reply to our emails, letters or phone calls. Even when presented with court proceedings they chose not to reply/appear.

"GGL has turned out to be an extremely un-professional organization and we have to warn all other companies out there to not do business with this company."

However, this may not be the end of it, as GGL is known for failing to pay out prizes from several competitions, and Game-Hosting is calling on affected parties to join the cause.

"I have also talked to other parties that GGL owes money to and they would like to take their claim to court but unfortunately they do not have the resources to take their claim to court," Pedersen added.

"It sometimes looks like GGL is planning on not paying out money since they know they most likely do not get sued. However there is good news for those parties, in US you can get affordable help in suing such companies as GGL as long as the claim is not to high.

"If other parties are interested in taking their claim to court, contact me and I will try and help. There may be a way that you can get the money you have rightfully earned."

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Sweden Vilseledd
why didnt they just cut the servers when they didn't pay the montly fee? then there wouldnt bee such huge sums of money involved :P
2009-10-02 18:16
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United Kingdom seb500
agreed, that is stupid...
2009-10-02 18:21
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Sweden visken
duh so you sue them and get more money of course.
2009-10-02 18:21
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Finland Nasdaq
i highly doubt that the game-hosting company is benefiting from this sue (much) at all, probably they are going minus on it. so yeah, it's kinda weird that they didn't cut the servers, but i guess game-hosting is a nice company who doesn't just do that, but it's really weird that they let it go this far tbh.
2009-10-02 18:59
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Sweden visken
Of course they are losing money from the deal but, they will benefit from the lawsuit. And they obviously deserve it.
2009-10-03 03:58
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New Zealand threat :D
Because they signed a contract...
2009-10-03 01:02
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United Kingdom Beasway
Game hosting gets some nice money from hosting servers :))
2009-10-02 18:33
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Malaysia Alpha_Tay
becoz ggl.com has traffic.
2009-10-02 18:38
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Germany CALM_BAITER
FUCK GGL !!!
2009-10-02 18:38
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Sweden BLiXTY
Language please.
2009-10-03 00:01
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Portugal Sweet Kill
Just sad........ God luck in the Us.....
2009-10-02 18:47
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United Kingdom Big Lighthouse
Who are GGL? im fairly noob when it comes to this, what events and stuff have they hosted??
2009-10-02 18:58
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Kyrgyzstan eKlipSe
Clanbase I think
2009-10-02 19:54
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Germany CALM_BAITER
Global Gaming League organization located in the US and organizing events under GGL name, also bought ClanBase in 2005/2006 when all CB problems started if you remember. It's what they are talking about in that text, unpaid prizemoney etc, is the main reason why CB hasn't been doing any big tournaments recently.
2009-10-02 20:30
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i suppose its a good thing that game-hosting are standing up and claiming what theyr owed. but its slightly depressing to think that in the process it will probably end clanbase, even if it is a bit of sham these days
2009-10-02 21:02
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Germany CALM_BAITER
I don't think CB will end because it was always ran by volunteers and will remain that way. It's just the quality they will hardly ever regain because of GGL fucking up everything.
2009-10-02 23:12
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maybe we can hope that with GGL removed CB could improve itself again
2009-10-02 23:18
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Germany CALM_BAITER
Will be hard but let's hope so :)
2009-10-03 01:51
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United States FODDER
Its sad to see GGL was slacking. But hopefulyl this will show how bullcrap does not fly anymore unpunished in the E-sports industry. :)
2009-10-02 19:14
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Sweden kheffy
hope it ends well for game-hosting. best servers ever!
2009-10-02 19:29
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Finland Rosma
Hope both parties in this case get what they deserve.
2009-10-02 19:48
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Sweden AgiaT
LOL..
2009-10-02 20:56
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Bulgaria bobo_tr
CB no prize money :)
2009-10-02 23:29
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