APB Dead after less than 3 months

sja360 · 16 Sep 2010 at 22:39

when do the servers actually close down? has their been a date set or are the servers shut down already

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mart981 · 16 Sep 2010 at 23:17

I had some fun when playing with friends (then again I do in most multiplayer games), but the horrible weapon system (damage/accuracy/imbalance etc) and cheats ruined all fun after a week or so. Glad I never bought any extra Realtime points.

The customisation of character, clothes, music, cars and symbols was of course awesome and is defintely the high bar that any future mmo's should be aiming for.

ChrisJSY · 17 Sep 2010 at 00:50

Calabi said:
@ ChrisJSY

But it wasnt released to early, they've been working at it for over five years.

I'll just have to disagree with that, your point that it took over five years means nothing.
Some games take longer, what does that mean? Nothing at all.

'Wes · 17 Sep 2010 at 08:29

Seems like beta's [for MMO's] actually pave the way to whether it will be successful or not.

Marky · 17 Sep 2010 at 08:45

It was really buggy and laggy - I think they needed a bit more time in beta to be honest... It was unplayable when I played it

FNGsam · 17 Sep 2010 at 09:59

Swifty55 said:
It's just one of those things. I enjoyed playing APB when I played it, was a fun game to play.

£30 is nothing if you've hand some fun out of it, I spend 5x's as much when I go out clubbing...

£150 each time you go out clubbing....

'Wes · 17 Sep 2010 at 10:03

FNGsam said:
£150 each time you go out clubbing....

Hahaha!

Tefal · 17 Sep 2010 at 10:13

chipps101 said:
first Vis Entertainment and now Realtime Worlds there goes Dundee's computer games industry, something we were once world leaders at

Well i suppose when you can't go outside without galoshes and thermals there's nothing left to do but make games

Skully · 17 Sep 2010 at 10:22

I bought it within the last month, not terribly happy that it's died but oh well.

Insta · 17 Sep 2010 at 10:25

Its always a shame to see an MMO get shut down. I played this during beta and the first month, however it did seem unfinished and players cheating caused problems.

Strife212 · 17 Sep 2010 at 11:56

Shame, customization was pretty fun.

Jumblejug · 17 Sep 2010 at 12:07

FNGsam said:
£150 each time you go out clubbing....

Cocaine is an expensive habit.

CossackNoodle · 17 Sep 2010 at 12:12

bought it last week :/ just started to get into it aswell after unlocking some decent weapons etc oh well

DjchunKfunK · 17 Sep 2010 at 12:12

Is this the fastest collapse of an MMO ever?

'Wes · 17 Sep 2010 at 12:14

DjchunKfunK said:
Is this the fastest collapse of an MMO ever?

Does anyone have a period for Matrix Online?

Wang Computer · 17 Sep 2010 at 12:14

I thought it was terrible. A friend of mine enjoys it a lot so he'll be inevitably disappointed by this.

Bumhug · 17 Sep 2010 at 12:20

'Wes said:
Does anyone have a period for Matrix Online?

That went on for about 4 years.

Wish was a great game, never made it out of beta though

I rememberdownloading the client, logging on playing for 10 minutes then getting a server wide message that the game had been cancelled and would be closing down in a couple of hours. Those brief couple of hours I got to play only made me want it more

Nemeses · 17 Sep 2010 at 12:29

Surprised this game died so quick as know a few who play it, and they all really seem to like it, was not my kind of MMO so never tried it.

DjchunKfunK · 17 Sep 2010 at 12:32

'Wes said:
Does anyone have a period for Matrix Online?

Martix Online lasted over 4 years from March 2004 to July 2009.

Tabula Rasa is the only one I can think of that was rather short and that lasted at least 2 years.

EDIT: Scratch that Auto Assault only lasted 16 months.

robin66 · 17 Sep 2010 at 12:44

Hellgate London didn't last to long either.

Sad to see APB go under, as it had pricked my interest.