Rumor: Buyer Found for Defunct APB

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Though Realtime Worlds has been gutted and has been in bankruptcy administration, recent "patch" notes (via Massively) for its shuttered game APB declared:

"It's looking like there might be light at the end of the tunnel for APB. The end of the administration process is apparently close and there appears to be a buyer for the game."

Ben Bateman, the game's former community manager, retweeted the notes. He now works for Codemasters, though any connection between Codies and APB is pure speculation at this point.

The same patch notes page previously stated that "various companies are still interested in operating it as a live game," but this does not guarantee that the buyer would re-open the game's servers. It could be a technology or intellectual property acquisition. That character customization engine was snazzy. The actual game... not so much.

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    October 29, 2010 2:44 PM

    I thought the game was actually snazzy...as a normal 40-50 dollar PC title. It was the subscription that killed this game. There was absolutely nothing about this game that warranted a monthly MMO subscription.

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      October 29, 2010 3:02 PM

      Agreed.

      I want the game to survive because the technical hurdles were already passed (massive customization, etc)... it's just the GAME portion that needed work. Work that RTW didn't want to, or couldn't do. RTW I think was just a bad company. They did not listen to ANY user complaints. They tried to cover up complaints rather than admit them, and work on fixing. Any talk of even obvious hackers in the game, was surely deleted and the 'snitch' was warned. Hell, it took a full month before they even released a patch. And even then, no complaints were from open beta were even addressed.

      If the game comes back out, and I don't have to buy it again, and they work out a free-to-play model, I'm all in.

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      October 29, 2010 4:59 PM

      If you think that APB is worth $40 - $50 as a normal PC title, then where does that place Modern Warfare 2 ?

      Zing! *door slams*

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        October 29, 2010 7:34 PM

        I dunno man MW2 is about worth 0 to me, I haven't bought it.

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          October 30, 2010 2:16 AM

          How can you possibly rate it then... The singleplayer campaign was epic, but the multiplayer was shitty.

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            October 30, 2010 7:26 AM

            I didn't rate it. Just said what it's worth to me.

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      October 30, 2010 4:02 AM

      im hoping it gets back on its feet, awesome potential tbh. gl to the staff in their new jobs tbh :D.

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        October 31, 2010 8:41 AM

        "Good luck to the stuff to be honest"?

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