Bettysue Higgins of
Gardiner, a former administrative assistant, pleaded guilty last week to
embezzling $166,000 from the Maine Trial Lawyers Association, which a
prosecutor claimed much of it was spent on Facebook games.
An investigator found
that over the most recent 18-month period, Higgins had 78 checks deposited
directly to her personal accountant and paid out the funds to Zynga’s YoVille and Mafia Wars.
Defense Attorney
Ronald Bourget added that Higgins personal bank account record for February
2010 alone showed that she spent more than $4000 into the games.
“Apparently she was
buying virtual coins for virtual property in a virtual world,” said Leanne
Robbin, an Assistant Attorney General and prosecutor of the case.
*Source: KennebecJournal
Ahead of tomorrow’s
official launch date, 1.5 million players are already roaming the galaxy in Star Wars: The Old Republic, an analyst
estimates.
“Based on the numbers of servers now in operation, and the relatively high densities thereon, we feel fairly comfortable estimating that the game already has an excess of 1 million players, and potentially could have as many as 1.5 million with the official launch date of the game,” wrote Doug Creutz, an analyst from Cowen & Company.
Creutz’s methodology
is based on the number of servers in operation in comparison to World of Warcraft in North American and
Europe, the average player density relative to server capacity and the estimate
that World of Warcraft has 4.0-4.5
million subs in North American and Europe.
However, the analyst admits
that there are “missing pieces” in his analysis and he doesn’t know the “relative
capacity” of The Old Republic vs. World of Warcraft servers nor what the ‘full’/’very
heavy’/etc. labels signify.
*Source: CVG
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