Hmm. Never having played an MMO (besides a trial of Fallen Earth that was a disappointment), this makes me kind of scared of them...
APB Comes to a "Premature End"
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hazabaza1 said:
this. i thought it looked kinda interesting but i never got around to buy it. good thing i see.
No. I'm pretty sure it's not that.dathwampeer said:
It's a common practice when MMOs are shutting down - making them free that is. Since Realtime Worlds is dead anyways, there is pretty much no way APB is coming back to life.
This makes me sad. I bought the game and played it for a while before quitting due to balance issues and frustration to find out yesterday they'd added a ready feature and some toning that fixed a lot of my issue with the game.
Just picked it back up and had all my friends patch it to. =/
Unfortunately this'll be a big scary sign telling other developers to never do anything similar again. Perhaps the idea that customization to this degree matters will live on to something else.
City of X, Champions online were worse games by far in my opinion. I love mmorpgs and hate shooters/racing games sooo, that says something about APB's customization.
Well I'm off to salvage some more time online.
Just picked it back up and had all my friends patch it to. =/
Unfortunately this'll be a big scary sign telling other developers to never do anything similar again. Perhaps the idea that customization to this degree matters will live on to something else.
City of X, Champions online were worse games by far in my opinion. I love mmorpgs and hate shooters/racing games sooo, that says something about APB's customization.
Well I'm off to salvage some more time online.
Was this ever even considered a WoW killer?Mackheath said:
APB only ever looked like a bigger version of GTA/Saints Row online.
I am suprised to see it's given up the fight already. Most MMOs seem to at least try make improvements, like AoC, big hype, no success, released newer content to try put life into it.
I feel strangly depressed. It looked good, the customisation looked amazing. If only there was a free trail I would of got it...
You can't win a fight if you've no resources. I don't think this was something they wanted to do, hence "premature" and the announcement of it being cut the day after a patch was announced.Jesus Phish said:
It's a real shame for all parties involved. Those who put money into it, the staff of Realtime Worlds, everyone who worked on it and for the game itself. I never played it, but what I saw of the character builder was utterly stunning. I really hope that a developer (Especially an RPG developer or whomever is doing Saints Row 3) picks up on it and tries to match it. Such a shame.
They pulled the plug on it really fast. While I wasn't crazy about it when I played the beta it looked like it could have been decent if it had just been a little more polished. Oh well.
Now this is just sad. I actually wanted to get this game, due to the robust customization suite but decided against when I saw how poor the game mechanics were and a lack of variety with the missions.
I sure hope the customization will make it's way into other future games. At least games like Brink [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLOhOBfB3g8] are getting there.
I sure hope the customization will make it's way into other future games. At least games like Brink [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLOhOBfB3g8] are getting there.
