Author Topic: The fall of All Points Bulletin and Real Time Worlds! (Read 690 times)

KillSlim · « **on:** 13-08-2010, 05:01 PM »

Currently, I am reveling in the defeat of APB. I see the game's upcoming defeat as a Victory for the gaming industry; because an unfinished, bug-filled, cheater-filled, content-lacking, over-priced, repetitive, frustrating game needs to get what it deserves: A short lifespan.

APB's official forums were full to the brim with trolls, ban-happy moderators and 'Hammer-Leigon-Members' (People who defend the game no matter what). They disallowed constructive criticism of any sort, thus players headed over to the Steam forums in hordes, creating all kinds of complaint and suggestion threads.

The game itself, as I described in the first few sentences of this thread, is awful. Recieving a global-average score of 5.4 / 10 (All of the major reviewers combined and averaged), dropping from the Steam top 100 played games in less than 3 weeks, and losing 52% of it's playerbase in 2 months according to Xfire and Steam statistics.

RTW's upcoming project announced on the 28th of July, 'My World', has been completely dropped. All staff members of this project, approximately 60, have been made redundant.
Rumours of RTW attempting to sell APB entirely are spreading, however I doubt this would work (Who would want to buy a dead and broken game?).

Apparently a skeletal staff of admins and devs will be made, again, inspired by the rumours around the inside of RTW that the company had gone bust.
All of this information was provided by an RTW insider and given to a gamer blog archive named 'VG247'.

It's funny, APB was supposed to run for three years, apparently because of a 'deal' either between EA or the server providers. Can you believe that 100 Million dollars have been wasted on this? And Dave Jones, Executive of RTW actually expected APB to be as successful and as popular as World of Warcraft in an interview with Eurogamer.

I believe APB has taught gamers to stick to developers they know and trust. If I didn't buy APB, I would probably buy one of the better MMO's coming out fall 2010 / quarter 1 2011.
Star Wars The Old Republic, made by Bioware; World of Warcraft Cataclysm, made by Blizzard; Guild Wars 2, from NCsoft.
Plenty of better titles coming out soon.

Ravanger · « **Reply #1 on:** 13-08-2010, 05:03 PM »

APB Sucked...They made it look cool, but in the end it sucked... Proably what they wanted to do make it look cool but it failed ingame.

Dug · « **Reply #2 on:** 13-08-2010, 06:14 PM »

Played it a few days, got bored, deleted. The beta that is.

Last.Exile · « **Reply #3 on:** 13-08-2010, 06:50 PM »

Horray! Some justice.

Nargotah · « **Reply #4 on:** 13-08-2010, 10:36 PM »

I'm just glad I was able to play the beta and realize how shit it was, really.

KillSlim · « **Reply #5 on:** 13-08-2010, 10:45 PM »

Quote from: Nargotah on 13-08-2010, 10:36 PM

I'm just glad I was able to play the beta and realize how shit it was, really.

I was having fun for the most part at the beginning, but after 10 hours I saw it all and I did it all. There was nothing at all new.
I fucking poured myself a Gin in celebration when I read this, literally, I felt so badly ripped off and frustrated.

Zstan · « **Reply #6 on:** 14-08-2010, 02:27 AM »

I bought this game hoping for awesome shootan fun

I slighty mad.

Afromana · « **Reply #7 on:** 14-08-2010, 03:47 AM »

N-TECCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

Played beta for a few weeks.
Thought the customization and such were a good idea.
But the balance in this game was AWFUL.
Enforcers actually had more health then the criminals "lol realism".
And don't get me started on the N-TEC (Usually called the Nazi-Tec by me and my friends)

Last.Exile · « **Reply #8 on:** 14-08-2010, 07:39 AM »

Quote from: KillSlim on 13-08-2010, 10:45 PM

Quote from: Nargotah on 13-08-2010, 10:36 PM
I'm just glad I was able to play the beta and realize how shit it was, really.

I played the beta for less than a hour and uninstalled it. Nuff said really.
I was having fun for the most part at the beginning, but after 10 hours I saw it all and I did it all. There was nothing at all new.
I fucking poured myself a Gin in celebration when I read this, literally, I felt so badly ripped off and frustrated.

Someone should have played the beta

KillSlim · « **Reply #9 on:** 14-08-2010, 01:11 PM »

I didn't play BETA, I played Key to the City which allowed for 5 free hours, but in that 5 free hours you're having fun. After that short period of time you think that 'This is all? I payed £30 pounds for APB and this is all you do ...'

Comradebritish · « **Reply #10 on:** 16-08-2010, 06:23 PM »

APB is dieing? When will justin bieber follow?

KillSlim · « **Reply #11 on:** 17-08-2010, 12:22 AM »

Quote from: Comradebritish on 16-08-2010, 06:23 PM

APB is dieing? When will justin bieber follow?

After his fan base of pre-teen girls go through their first menstrual cycle.

Dutch · « **Reply #12 on:** 17-08-2010, 02:43 PM »

am i the only person who actually liked apb and still do, just can't be bothered to keep paying for it?

Last.Exile · « **Reply #13 on:** 17-08-2010, 07:44 PM »

APB have now gone into administration and are trying to get bought out by someone. Their fall is complete.

Dutch · « **Reply #14 on:** 18-08-2010, 11:47 AM »

Quote from: Last.Exile on 17-08-2010, 07:44 PM

APB have now gone into administration and are trying to get bought out by someone. Their fall is complete.

where does it say that

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