Report: APB Developer Enters Bankruptcy

They never made a good game so it was going to happen.

APB could of been good if they put some game in to there fashion show sim.

As for crackdown it was a real poor GTA clone with super jumps boring boss fights and fairly lacking any thing to do.

If only they had just waited a LITTLE bit longer and moved onto Crackdown 2 instead of starting APB! They would have hit that one out of the park and APB either could have been made later (or scrapped all together). The basic idea for APB sounded awesome.. but I think it was too big of an undertaking for them. I played the beta but it just didn't excite me. It didn't feel like a shooter, it didn't feel like an MMO.. it didn't even feel like GTA.. it was kind of the weaker parts of all of those. Maybe the final product was a bit better... but it doesn't sound like it. This is too bad because there are some great developers in this team.

oh well, so i wasted a lot of money :(

I was really tired of getting into the All Points Bullet's zone map, but I kept disconnecting at all the times. That game was totally sucked.

I had pretty high expectations reading the somethingawful thread about APB all my fellow goons made it sound absolutely amazing. I was able to get a trial key from a friend and I think I played a total of an hour before I uninstalled it, outof the 7 hours you get for the free friend key.

This game is very not good. I wanted to play it just for the character customization, but guess what every thing is over priced so as a newbie you have no choice but to play the fucking game.

O hgod the game is so bad. There is enough words online discussing how bad it is so I will spare you my minor diatribe. The real problem comes from the fact that as a level 4 character I was getting teamed up against level 194-205 players CONSISTENTLY. I never once played anyone near my level.

They really, really fucked up this game. It is a shame seeing people lose their job but I am sure this will look good on a resume at least. These people aren't generally poor who develop games but damn, this game sucked hard.

Bioware and THQ need to halt development on their MMOs. Both of those projects have the smell that they were greenlighted under the expectation of netting a million+ regular subscribers. They will NOT hit or even come close to those numbers.

The Star Wars source material does not lend itself to, and is not suited for, an MMO. Bioware needs to fold up TOR, salvage what assets they can, and move it into KOTOR 3.

THQ/Vigil do not have the funding or the time to implement the Warhammer 40K universe properly nor do I believe that the tech is ready for it. THQ needs to stop funding the WH40K MMO and reallocate that money to other projects.

As seems to be the tradition in these events, there's an anonymous ex-employee post over on RPS: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/08/16/redundancies-at-real-time-worlds/#comment-491791

Some finger pointing, but otherwise it provides a bit more perspective.

I have an idea.

1. steam sale 20 bucks.

2. give the option to be 1 st person or 3rd person

So APB is the new Auto Assault?

http://www.develop-online.net/news/35649/Activision-attempts-RTW-staff-rescue

/cue Star Wars Soundtrack - The Imperial March

Working with Scottish agency Specialmove, Activision is flying six staff to Dundee (Phil Hindle – Technical Director; Mike Rutter – Art Manager; James Horn – Senior Environment Artist; Neil Campbell – Lead Programmer; Graham Watson – Lead Programmer and Nikki Cooper – HR Manager).

Develop understands that on Thursday August 19th and Friday August 20th Activision Blizzard will host a special recruitment event at the Apex Hotel, City Quay, Dundee.

Man, it would suck to have purchased this game. I bet it goes down and since the company is insolvent you couldnt even sue them. (I mean you COULD but you wont get anything).

170 staffers let go?

I know games are requiring more and more people to develop but what other games were they developing?

I thought APB was a lot of fun for the included playtime, but there was little incentive to purchase more as I had already seen the two action zones inside and out. For a game that took a long time to develop they didn't have much in-game real estate to play in.

I was considering purchasing more time down the road when they added more action zones but that has gone right out the window.

the beta was boring as hell. and pretty much every final review of the game said the same. their pricing plans were dumb. this thing might set a record for fail. has it even been out 2 months yet?

maybe they shouldn't have bought the crazy big pavilion at PAX East? Kind of saw this one coming when all they could talk about was the character creation portion of the game, and left out the game play parts.

Studios like this and especially Cryptic need to realize that a great character creator doesn't make a great game.

And another one bites it trying to grab the brass ring.

I'm sorry to see this happen to a talented development house, but this push to make everything into an mmo needs to stop. Hopefully the guys at RTW land on their feet, wherever they end up.

wow that sucks

Even though APB was a big pile of poop, its always sad when this happens. Crackdown on the other hand was awesome.

Crackdown was such an awesome game. It seems like APB was a big gamble, I wish they had gambled on making Crackdown 2 and having MS decide to pick it up. I'm sure nobody expected the platinum sales, but they really should have shifted gears and followed up on the success of their first project. I think the end result would have been a much better Crackdown sequel and a good video game company still making games.

thats no bueno =(