primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . december 2007 learn how and when to remove this template message cipsoft gmbh industry gaming genre video game developer founded 2001 founder guido l bke stephan payer ulrich schlott stephan vogler headquarters regensburg germany products tibia tibiame revenue 9 441 000 2015 1 number of employees 84 2 website http www.cipsoft.com cipsoft gmbh or cip is a video game developer based in regensburg germany which produces the online roleplaying game tibia . they also market tibia micro edition a cell phone based version of the game . 3 contents 1 company 2 history 2.1 2013 ddos attacks 3 products 3.1 tibia 3.2 tibiame 3.3 fiction fighters 4 awards 5 references 6 external links company edit in 1995 the four german students guido l bke stephan payer ulrich schlott and stephan vogler worked for the first time on the online role playing game tibia as a student s project . to be contrary to the text based games at that time they wanted to design a graphical game which gave players a realistic view of the virtual world . just two years later in january 1997 the first version of tibia went online on servers of the university . due to the huge success of tibia the four former students decided to found their own company . the year 2001 was the founding year of the cipsoft gmbh in regensburg germany . over 50 permanent employees and a dozen assistants work for cipsoft gmbh . in 2010 the company had an annual turnover of about 8 million euro . history edit 2013 ddos attacks edit during august 2013 the company s main product suffered from a long period of ddos attacks which led cipsoft to hire prolexic for increased protection against ddos attacks . to compensate the players for the attacks which made the game unplayable for a long time cipsoft distributed vouchers for premium time or double experience to the players affected . 4 products edit cipsoft gmbh offers two products to its customers 2013 . tibia edit tibia is one of the first online role playing games mmorpg ever created . 5 it is the main product of cipsoft gmbh . on the islands of tibia players discover a fantastic 2d world where they can go on virtual adventures . the main intention of the game is for the player to develop the character and to prove oneself as a knight paladin sorcerer or druid . the fact that tibia is still based on 2d has never influenced the growth of the number of players . in 2008 tibia was seen as one of the 8 best mmorpgs for linux 6 tibiame edit tibiame is the first online role playing game for mobile phones . 7 the story of tibiame is inspired by the pc game tibia . as a knight or a sorcerer the players develop the skills of their selected characters . by exploring large varieties of areas they will come upon exciting quests and dangerous dungeons where hundreds of players can set their forces together . communicating and interacting with other players in a diplomacy is only one attractive aspect of tibiame . the player can log out at any moment of the game and log in later . fiction fighters edit fiction fighters was a new product which became available in 2011 but was discontinued during its beta release due to massive lack of player s staying interest despite a massive marketing campaign . it was an interactive 3d comic where players entered a parallel comic universe . the players acted and interacted only in comic strips . 8 awards edit in 2007 cipsoft scores 4th at the deloitte technology fast 50 challenge 9 in 2008 cipsoft scores 3rd at the british telecom wi fi developer challenge with tibiame 10 references edit https www.cipsoft.com index.php en cipsoft https www.cipsoft.com index.php en cipsoft tibiame listed on makinggames . makinggames.de . 2011 . http www.tibia.com news subtopic newsarchive & id 2519 tibia among the first role playing games in the world tibia among best games for linux . 2008 . article about tibiame as the first role playing game for mobile phones . presskit of cipsoft . 2011 . winners of the deloitte technology fast 50 2007 . 2007 . cipsoft wins british telecom wi fi developer challenge with tibiame . 2008 . external links edit official cipsoft website official tibia website official tibia me website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cipsoft & oldid 732328748 categories companies based in regensburgvideo game companies of germanysoftware companies of germanyhidden categories articles lacking reliable references from december 2007all articles lacking reliable references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata 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