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APB was total turd and I wish I'd never bought it. APB will very quickly die off now.
Really funny eh? I mean it's great news that there are 170 people out of work today through the no direct fault of their own. They don't even get paid this month.
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I'm sure the subscriber will be very upset.
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Such is the investment required per game in the industry, it's hardly surprising that it just takes one complete shocker of a title for a firm to go belly up 
Unfortunately it's facts like those that make high-budget, 'lets try something completely new' games virtually unheard of
Unfortunately it's facts like those that make high-budget, 'lets try something completely new' games virtually unheard of
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This.
I haven't played it after the first week. Impulse buy fail. Luckily I never paid for any game time or in game stuff as I've still got about 40 free hours left.
Haters gonna hate. Really, APB wasnt that bad, there was just a huge gap between what was promoted (free for all battles between cops and robbers) and the reality (juddery graphics, repetitive missions, huge hitboxes, no real character development). This might have been an ok game if the mp had been free but there was no way anyone was going to pay cash on a monthly basis.
PLUS the beta was a clown-fest with only a select group of players playing regularly whilst everyone else played 3 hours every sunday. THat turned me off immediately and made me bin the game and try fallen earth.
Anyway sad to see them go down, but you have to wonder about the choices some of these companies make.
PLUS the beta was a clown-fest with only a select group of players playing regularly whilst everyone else played 3 hours every sunday. THat turned me off immediately and made me bin the game and try fallen earth.
Anyway sad to see them go down, but you have to wonder about the choices some of these companies make.
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It's not really a shame though is it? If you make junk, you're not going to sell much. I feel sorry for the people that have lost their jobs, but no more so that the thousands of others that have also lost theirs in recent times. In fact I feel less sorry for them, because sometimes people lose their jobs because they are ill or the company has been mis-managed. In this case, they all chipped in to produce a massive pile of excretory waste.
Sleepless - you begin with 'APB wasnt that bad', and then proceed to list a host of reasons why it was complete dog doo .
Sleepless - you begin with 'APB wasnt that bad', and then proceed to list a host of reasons why it was complete dog doo .
Ah I quite liked it, for the 9 hours i bothered to play it. The good stuff was driving around a 'live' city ala GTA, the shoot outs were quite good, especially the co-op even if the hot boxes were bigger than my **** and there was no real accuracy to the guns... ah there we go again, into the bad points. The biggest problem though was promoting it as a crrrrazy shoot out game when it was GTA jiddery lite.
exactly
you can tell 99% of the time when they have a beta like that (only online for a few hours every week?) and a press review lockdown like they did (WAY over the line) that it's either a)pap and they know it and just want to hide it from consumers or b)pap and someone knows it and wants to hide it from investors
you can tell 99% of the time when they have a beta like that (only online for a few hours every week?) and a press review lockdown like they did (WAY over the line) that it's either a)pap and they know it and just want to hide it from consumers or b)pap and someone knows it and wants to hide it from investors
Actually the method used was to test specific things at set times.
Rather than let people play a game for free and not report bugs.
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