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Topic: Flagship Sunk? (Read 68556 times)
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Tige
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Signe
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I saw that and it made me sad. I'm subbed and play HGL more than any other game at the moment.  FSS is saying the HanbitSoft story is fake but who knows? Editedbecauseicantspellrite. |
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« Last Edit: July 11, 2008, 12:19:10 PM by Signe »
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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schild
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Oh right. I just want to say - who's laughing about my refund now?
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sam, an eggplant
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Don't care about HG:L but I sure hope Mythos isn't impacted by this.
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Simond
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Oh right. I just want to say - who's laughing about my refund now? The people who never spent any money on a fourth-rate Diablo-clone in the first place?  |
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Mrbloodworth
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Oh right. I just want to say - who's laughing about my refund now? The people who never spent any money on a fourth-rate Diablo-clone in the first place? /raisehand |
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Oh right. I just want to say - who's laughing about my refund now? The people who never spent any money on a fourth-rate Diablo-clone in the first place? Thank Christ for open betas. That saved me $50 at least. |
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photek
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Hellgate London should have never seen daylight. Mythos is where they should have gone all in.
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"I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away"
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Tige
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I liked Hellgate's premise. No elf ears and everything that comes with it.
I've had some really fun sessions with the game and was going to resub with 2.0 but now who knows if it will see the light of day this year. Besides, the forums are more entertainment than any other mmo out there right now.
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Signe
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I've been subbed for a few weeks or so now and it's much more fun. Some of the recent nerfs to MM have disillusioned me, however. Mythos is cute and okay but does not keep me entertained for more than an hour or so. I can go very long periods without logging in and I don't miss it at all. It is cute, though. HGL, however, has loads of potential for fun and I look cool in it.
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photek
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I liked Hellgate's premise. No elf ears and everything that comes with it.
I've had some really fun sessions with the game and was going to resub with 2.0 but now who knows if it will see the light of day this year. Besides, the forums are more entertainment than any other mmo out there right now.
I'll tell you honestly : I didn't give it more than 40-50 minutes, at best, during the open beta to figure it was shit. When your character looks and feels static and retarded after 15 seconds of movement, I'm there better be something else making up for it. And then I waited. After 10 mins and some combat with different classes I was ready to give up. I tried advancing and having fun, but a burdening feeling of suckage caused me to abandon all hope. Game was absolutely lacking in atmosphere, feeling, depth, interactivity, decent animations, particle effects, AI, interface and combat to name a few so why are people still rabbling about this piece of flamboyant poop. Just let it die. Diablo 3 is here Soon(TM). HGL, however, has loads of potential Yup, thats all it ever was. Potential. Unfortunately wasted. |
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« Last Edit: July 11, 2008, 02:07:35 PM by photek »
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"I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away"
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Oban
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Never fuck with a Korean company's money and expect to keep your job.
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NiX
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I linked all the way to that "rant" from their sole programmer. I genuinely feel bad for the guy because it seems like he really wants things to work out when he knows they won't.
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photek
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I linked all the way to that "rant" from their sole programmer. I genuinely feel bad for the guy because it seems like he really wants things to work out when he knows they won't.
Same. I also really wanted them to do well, being a huge Blizzard North fan and Diablo fan. I'm still looking forward to trying Mythos though and just think of HG:L as a project gone wrong. Trial and error. |
"I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away"
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Ratman_tf
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I want to have something to say about this, but I've already said it in other threads.  |
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Modern Angel
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I think Diablo 3 would've been the last nail in the coffin anyway.
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Signe
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I think Diablo 3 would've been the last nail in the coffin anyway.
That could be, I don't know, but Diablo 3 is Blizzard and they've just announced it so I reckon HGL would have AT LEAST five years to make a bit of dosh.  I do think, however, that if HGL had been in a proper state when it launched, it would be doing alright. Not WoW great or anything, but possibly decent. |
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Count Nerfedalot
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Too bad. Another decent game idea where the devs bit off more than they could chew, released too soon, and have suffered the consequences. THIS is why I think Mythic's pruning of classes and cities is a wise decision.
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Trippy
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Oh right. I just want to say - who's laughing about my refund now?
Some of us were smart enough to realize the game wasn't good enough to subscribe to it in the first place  |
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sam, an eggplant
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From the updates in the past couple of hours, it really does look like the koreans are going to end up owning HGL (who cares?) and Mythos (I care). What a total bummer. If travis baltree and co aren't developing it, I don't have much hope in Mythos ending up a winner.
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schild
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I imagine Travis would leave and make something better. Hell, he should.
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Ratman_tf
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"What I'm saying is you should make friends with a few catasses, they smell funny but they're very helpful." -Calantus makes the best of a smelly situation. |
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WindupAtheist
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Fuck 'em. They can take their "let's charge MMO fees for pseudo-MMO online play" business plan straight to hell with them.
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Simond
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Fuck 'em. They can take their "let's charge MMO fees for pseudo-MMO online play" business plan straight to hell with them.
Where "hell" means "Korea", right? |
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sinij
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Oh right. I just want to say - who's laughing about my refund now? The people who never spent any money on a fourth-rate Diablo-clone in the first place? /raisehand Same. Thankfully few funbois here took one for the team so I didn't had to. |
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sinij
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Fuck 'em. They can take their "let's charge MMO fees for pseudo-MMO online play" business plan straight to hell with them.
Can't agree more and for me this was top issue I had with Flagship. |
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eldaec
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Flagship Studios' Closure Confirmed, All Staff Fired, All I.P. LostHanbitSoft hopes to independently continue development of Mythos, to which it owns the rights thanks to a loan agreement enacted with Flagship. Comerica now owns the Hellgate: London rights through a similar loan agreement, and will likely continue Asian development with HanbitSoft. As for English-language releases of the two games, it is possible that the Asian companies would continue development, though in the case of Hellgate: London it is unlikely (Mythos has a far better business model and is attracting extremely positive press). Alternatively, the rights may be sold to Electronic Arts or other interested parties.
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UnSub
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Flagship Studios' Closure Confirmed, All Staff Fired, All I.P. LostHanbitSoft hopes to independently continue development of Mythos, to which it owns the rights thanks to a loan agreement enacted with Flagship. Comerica now owns the Hellgate: London rights through a similar loan agreement, and will likely continue Asian development with HanbitSoft. As for English-language releases of the two games, it is possible that the Asian companies would continue development, though in the case of Hellgate: London it is unlikely (Mythos has a far better business model and is attracting extremely positive press). Alternatively, the rights may be sold to Electronic Arts or other interested parties. Perhaps the lesson is "if you take a loan out on everything, be prepared to lose everything". It seems incredible, to me, that Flagship put pretty much everything they had in hock to afford to get their products out the door, including the IPs. Flagshipped indeed. |
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Aez
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Crap.
Anyone knows an other casual friendly game? Preferably with hordes of monsters and a decent loot system.
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eldaec
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Crap.
Anyone knows an other casual friendly game? Preferably with hordes of monsters and a decent loot system.
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Simond
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Crap.
Anyone knows an other casual friendly game? Preferably with hordes of monsters and a decent loot system.
Diablo 2  |
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lesion
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What is this "through sources" bullshit? Are there no direct goddamn quotes? Did they not take notes? Find me someone to choke!
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rk47
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i cannot believe Flagship only had one game to their name. Wtf seriously? That's IT?
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Colonel Sanders is back in my wallet
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