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Topic: APB: Finally, I Can Be A PUNK! (Read 545613 times)
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koro
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As you may or may not have already read, RTW has recently announced that it has entered into administration. When reading this news, you’ll probably be wondering what effect this will have on you, the players.
Well, the good news is that it doesn’t. APB will continue to run, receive updates and is completely accessible. There will be no disruption to the service. Hopefully that holds true for at least 3 more months as that is how much free time i've accumulated so far. I wonder how APB will "continue to run, receive updates, and be completely accessible" when "...the APB team has been "given until Friday to clear their desks"..." |
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schild
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Sucks, I liked RTW.
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koro
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As you may or may not have already read, RTW has recently announced that it has entered into administration. When reading this news, you’ll probably be wondering what effect this will have on you, the players.
Well, the good news is that it doesn’t. APB will continue to run, receive updates and is completely accessible. There will be no disruption to the service. ozmills #rtwadmin - can someone please confirm whether or not the Marketgait doors are locked from employee entry? I'm getting conflicting reports. Twitterprofilephoto_normal edfear Nice. RT @lvturner: RT @ozmills: #rtwadmin - WARNING - ALL PCS ARE BEING SHUT DOWN AND ACCOUNTS LOCKED OUT - GET TO YOUR EMAIL WHILE YOU CAN ozmills #rtwadmin - the administrators will be in at 9AM tomorrow (approx) with tailored PR1 forms for each individual. HR told me to come in then. |
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Nija
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On a personal level, I feel sorry for the people who worked there.
As a gamer, this is great news.
If you're going to make a game like APB, you only need 3 things working correctly for it to be fun. Driving physics, player physics, and combat physics. APB had 0/3 of those things. Why they spent time on clothing, cash shops, map sizes, and even MULTIPLAYER is beyond me. They were missing the entire core of the genre.
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Ironwood
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Lots of people Drinking in Dundee.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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On a personal level, I feel sorry for the people who worked there.
As a gamer, this is great news.
If you're going to make a game like APB, you only need 3 things working correctly for it to be fun. Driving physics, player physics, and combat physics. APB had 0/3 of those things. Why they spent time on clothing, cash shops, map sizes, and even MULTIPLAYER is beyond me. They were missing the entire core of the genre.
Agreed. I hate to see people out of work, but I love to see incompetence meet its deserved reward. |
When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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this was very quick
they just launched and went bust? Gawd.
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HaemishM
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The MMO industry is quickly becoming a parody of a satire of a caricature. Over-promise, under-deliver, sell blowjobs for a dollar under the overpass.
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Threash
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As you may or may not have already read, RTW has recently announced that it has entered into administration. When reading this news, you’ll probably be wondering what effect this will have on you, the players.
Well, the good news is that it doesn’t. APB will continue to run, receive updates and is completely accessible. There will be no disruption to the service. ozmills #rtwadmin - can someone please confirm whether or not the Marketgait doors are locked from employee entry? I'm getting conflicting reports. Twitterprofilephoto_normal edfear Nice. RT @lvturner: RT @ozmills: #rtwadmin - WARNING - ALL PCS ARE BEING SHUT DOWN AND ACCOUNTS LOCKED OUT - GET TO YOUR EMAIL WHILE YOU CAN ozmills #rtwadmin - the administrators will be in at 9AM tomorrow (approx) with tailored PR1 forms for each individual. HR told me to come in then. Don't this people have phones? |
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Outlawedprod
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Don't this people have phones?
They use them to tweet! =p In all seriousness most of them probably had their coworker contact info in their e-mail clients and if some of the tweets are right they are locked out of the office and their e-mail. The pressing question is Friday payday and is this loot n scoot time? In light of recent developments within the Dundee games community, Activision Blizzard have partnered with Specialmove to host a recruitment event in Dundee on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th August at the Apex Hotel, City Quay, Dundee. |
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« Last Edit: August 17, 2010, 01:27:41 PM by Outlawedprod »
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Ironwood
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Interesting.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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koro
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Wow, the Activision vultures didn't waste any time did they? "We're so impressed by how spectacularly your game cratered, please work for us!"
Glad those who are losing their jobs might have somewhere to go, but it's a shame that it's there.
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Ironwood
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Half a loaf is better than none, mate and, frankly, it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. IT Job market is brutal over here. Apparently.  |
"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Merusk
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My money's on Acti-Blizzard just need some more CS guys and saw a pool of folks looking to remain 'in' the industry. What, you didn't really think they were hiring these guys for design jobs, did you?  |
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Stormwaltz
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Wow, the Activision vultures didn't waste any time did they? "We're so impressed by how spectacularly your game cratered, please work for us we bet you'll work for next to nothing!" FIFY |
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UnSub
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From Activision's point of view, they can pick the cream out of a studio who has shipped a few games. It's a good opportunity for them. I bet the investors are wondering where their $80m went. |
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Lantyssa
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It's Activision. You think they care if there is talent or not?
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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UnSub
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The people they look at will have game shipping experience. And a broken spirit. It's win / win!
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statisticalfool
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The people they look at will have game shipping experience. And a broken spirit. It's win / win!
Yikes. How much of the scottish game development scene just got let go? <- has a friend currently going for a masters in game programming over there, no matter how much I want to try to convince her not. |
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Lantyssa
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Let's just say that a burgeoning tech capital might not be the best place to be for hopeful game devs when the economy of the country goes from best in Europe to one of the worst. APB isn't the first company to have problems there.
That doesn't mean she has to stay in Dublin though, and grads across various fields are having difficulty now. If she applies herself and can do some stand out undergrad or post-grad work, she can still find something.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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ghost
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Lots of people Drinking in Dundee.
Isn't this status quo? |
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HaemishM
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Let's just say that a burgeoning tech capital might not be the best place to be for hopeful game devs when the economy of the country goes from best in Europe to one of the worst. APB isn't the first company to have problems there.
That doesn't mean she has to stay in Dublin though, and grads across various fields are having difficulty now. If she applies herself and can do some stand out undergrad or post-grad work, she can still find something.
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Lantyssa
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I blame the meds for my lack of reading comprehension.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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WayAbvPar
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Best way to fix that is to share them with your internet friends!
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Lantyssa
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Heck no. My stash was almost gone from when I broke my toe. I'm hoping for a lack of emergencies requiring opiates in the near future. Maybe I'd share with one of the RTW guys. They probably need something right now.  |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Ghambit
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Is Bloodworth being pinkslipped too??  (sorry, too easy... you know I love ya MBW) |
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LK
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I'd buy their character creator with all options unlocked for $10. It's a powerful tool.
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hyuu
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I'd buy their character creator with all options unlocked for $10. It's a powerful tool.
Yeah, if I ran RTW, I'd look at licensing that creator/tech/models/know-how/etc. to other game companies. Imagine if your favorite hentai dating sim every game came with an APB-quality character creator... |
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Threash
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As great as the character creator and designer was unless you had some artistic talent you really couldn't do much more with it than with other games. My standard "mash the random button until i don't look retarded" character creating strategy is all i could manage in a couple months of playing around with it.
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I am the .00000001428%
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sam, an eggplant
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What I found most astonishing in all this is that APB sold under 10k units! How could anyone anticipate it performing so badly? Even Age of Conan initially sold through 600k; its problem was retention. Even the most cynical and hateful anonymous internet dickhole could never have anticipated APB would sell under 10,000 copies! |
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WayAbvPar
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That is pretty amazing. I wonder how much the open beta had to do with it? I was about 80% to buy it before I played the beta/heard all the complaints about it.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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HaemishM
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Had I not played the open beta, there was a good chance I'd have bought this game. The beta killed it dead for me - the fun bits were just too clouded over by the frustrating bits. 10,000 units? That's fucking cataclysmic for any game, much less one that cost over $50 million to make.
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Musashi
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I don't think anybody knew about it. Did they even have physical copies? All my internet friends were like, "wut?" when I told them about the beta.
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