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It looks like MMO maker Realtime Worlds is in some real trouble. The company, whose last release was crime-centric MMO APB: All Points Bulletin, was placed in "administration," which in Scotland means it is in the hands of a company that specializes in corporate rescue. That company (Begbies Traynor Group) will look for a "white knight" investor or three to invest in the company. If that effort fails, APB will most likely be Realtimes' last game.
If you're one of the people actually playing APB, Realtime is keeping your world open. Reportedly, 50 or so employees left at Realtime are working on maintaining APB.
Even if Realtime does shutter its operations, it seems likely to me that some other publisher would pick up APB, and continue on with it. After all: Mixing Grand Theft Auto and World of Warcraft is a good idea for an MMO, even if the execution hasn't been to everyone's liking.
Who would have thought five years ago, when Crackdown was a surprise monster hit for Realtime, and everyone in gaming was excited about the company making an MMO, it would come to this!
Source: Develop
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RelicCastle
I thought this game was advertised as a really great game on par of a Grand Theft Auto game...I thought this was going to be the killer game of an mmo... I mean MMO and Grand Theft Auto like game....what could possible go wrong....I guess the developers are retarded to screw up a great concept of a game....shocking Im indeed...I guess I wont buy this game...I will wait until some company comes around and actually does a competent mmo grand theft like game....SHAME ON YOU REALTIME WORLD...YOU DESERVE TO GO BANKRUPT....RETARDS....
cheesypoofs
They should've stuck with Crackdown; no one is going to dethrone WOW anytime soon.
mil77
There is more behind this than "one failed game", recent General Election brought a change of Government which scrapped the tax breaks the UK industry had been crying out for. Without that help studios and staff will continue to emigrate abroad in search of a better deal, and sad stories like this will appear more often.
kiohto
I definitely understand the frustration with APB, the game lets you purchase gear with real money so a lot of the people you're matched up against are seriously overpowered against you. That said, the game has gotten A LOT better in the recent patches.
hathur
APB honestly, I think it deserves to go under... it's not a game worth saving. Played it for 2 weeks and grew tired / irritated of it after 2 or 3 days.. and I'm a huge GTA fan.... you spend so little time actually fighting other players and so much time doing Fed Ex quests.. the shooting mechanics feel very poor and the fact most fights are 4v4, you can't actually call it a MMO .. there aren't any actual fights even half the size of fights in Battle field bad company 2 (if anything, that's more of a "mmo" than APB).
Bad execution, bad gameplay... let it die.
fyrestarter00
I've got to agree with chantler, I was amazed by the possibilities that this game implied would be possible; when delivery time game I was just completely let down by the results. I hope the company doesn't go down though, I love the Crackdown series (I had my Halo 3 beta reserved long before the reserve thing with Crackdown) and would like to see Realtime get it together and hopefully produce a 3rd in the line.
chantler
As a person that was looking forward to and then let down by APB, I must say that I'm not surprised by this news. I really wanted to get into this game and the reviews plus the word of mouth were awful. I hope they make some epic last ditch effort to improve and save this game because that is how bad I want to like this title... odds are I would have given up on it after Old Republic released.
wolfman01
It's a shame how one bad game can ruin your whole company, while numerous bad movies flow through the mainstream. Just look at the SY-FY channel.
LocoCabasa
How could the winning formula of box delivery in a pointlessly violent world populated by edgy corporate cliches go wrong?
Arkanthiel
It could still be saved you know. If they added some real gameplay and not just FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF FFFFFFFFFFF all the time.
Also if they expand the battlegrounds.
Luck702
Its sad.
vaajtswv
This game has conflicting demographics. People who play mmo tend not to play crime games (ie GTA). People who play crime games tend not to play mmo. They were banking a lot on a risky niche.
Jimi0088
@macross2012
You are a ignorant @#$%. I hope you loose your job because you most likely suck at it!
Now to the article.....
I hope that they can turn the company around. There are still a lot of great games still to come. It would be great to see an investor that knew something about gaming and took them to the next level.
plasticgiantcatbear
I hope they get their act together because this game has potential, even if the beta, launch and addressing balances and exploits were colossal failures.
macross2012
Did anyone think this game was going to make a dime? What a joke this company is.. Will be glad to see them go under for making a stupid choice that even a monkey knew would be a bomb
Nub Salad
I know everyone says that crackdown was actually a good game, but didn't that game only sell well because of the halo 3 beta? So it's not surprising that it was a monster hit with halo 3 attached to it. Also, I'm skeptical of what people classify as a good game when it comes to a game they only bought so they could beta test a different game.
mattgindago
i bet they're regretting not doing Crackdown 2 now. oh well, i hope they get out of trouble
XwingVmanX
Maybe the should of made it an actually mmo if they wanted it to sell well.
ki11er1egend
That Suck
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