Stolen Pixels #228: All Points Bu

[PoweD]

I give it 1 month until a hacker group releases their own server

 

[Vitor Goncalves]

Imagine if this had happened to WoW? Imagine the alternate reality

That would cause such a disruption on the space-time continuum the whole universe would collapse.

OT: What was the reason for the game dying out, did they forgot to pay the broadband bill?!

 

[Optimystic]

Oddly enough, the people that are trying to "save" the word Irony have even less idea of what it means than people that misuse it sometimes. For instance, one of the definitions of Irony according to Mirriam-Webster is incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal expected result. That's not a new meaning to the word. Thus the original statement was actually a correct use of the term irony.

Also, it means that your statement is ironic, as you wouldn't expect the person complaining about irony's meaning being warped to be warping its meaning.

I don't quite understand what you wrote but it feels like win so I'm quoting it.

Also, APB, we hardly knew ye.

 

[Optimystic]

*ahem*
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/irony

No wait... THIS is the true win.

 

[Mechsoap]

Haha, oh the irony...

What irony?

The game was in development for longer than three years, but it lasted less than three months.

also, the comic cut at the end.

Irony is the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.

Time in development opposed to time in sale is in no way ironic. Neither is cutting the comic. It is funny though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2krXq8fw90

sorry i forgot how to link....damn my mind

it had potentiality, great potentiality, but wrongly done

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

Imagine if this had happened to WoW? Imagine the alternate reality

That would cause such a disruption on the space-time continuum the whole universe would collapse.

OT: What was the reason for the game dying out, did they forgot to pay the broadband bill?!

They went under, simply wern't making enough money to keep the game and servers running.

 

[syltman]

I never heard of this game, MMO GTA sounds good tho

 

[DrEmo]

Maybe someone on the APB development team found a way to get candlejack so angry th

 

[Orzene]

You know.. they would have made more money and probably had less hassle were they to have just stuck with Crackdown, not given it to Ruffian who FUCKED UP THE SERIES IN CRACKDOWN 2, and just let APB be the one that got away... on a shelf, in a closet, in a basement somewhere where nobody would ever see it..

 

[The3rdEye]

Old news but...

I have no sympathy for real-time worlds. They made a great game, had a great system for it, then when the opportunity came to make a follow-up/sequel they pass on making an innovative, entertaining sequel that would most likely have done very well, and instead work on an innovative (?) yet not entertaining MMO that requires exponentially more funds to develop, produce and maintain. There's a difference between taking a risk and making a mistake and there's no point crying when it's the latter.