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Realtime Worlds’ failed crime MMO APB has been purchased by online games localization company K2 Network for around $2.4 million.
As GamesIndustry.biz reports, now that K2 (War Rock and 9 Dragons) owns the rights to APB, there’s a chance the failed online multiplayer game, which was officially shut down this past September after being live for less than three months, might be back up and running by year’s end. Whenever it does go live, it appears that APB will abandon its subscription/micro-transaction model in favor of free-to-play.
Around the same time Realtime Worlds killed APB, it sold its social media inspire virtual space Project MyWorld to Kimberly Operations, a company founded by several former Realtime Worlds’ directors. We haven’t heard anything about the project since then, but there are apparently a dozen or so Realtime devs still working on it, so perhaps something will come of it after all.
Source: GamesIndustry.biz
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sirrogue2
@Stellerman: The game did not require a subscription fee at all. You could essentially play for free by selling in-game items for game time. The subscription fee was there in case you didn't want to play with the economy (which, admittedly, was horrible) and wanted to concentrate on PWNing noobs.
That being said, if this game to F2P, I will probably not pick it up again. APB was a decent game in its day, but i had too much going against it for it to really be fun and profitable.
Mathew_Elric
Would be pretty cool, if it didn't end up as a "You pretty much have crap equipment, unless you pay real money for overpowered items" type of F2P.
TreFacTor
They should have made this for consoles also. I never thought this would be a successful subscription based game when it was initially announced.
scorcher117
Wait so they are fixing all the issues that made it crappy by making it free?
Liem
Well you shouldn't have to pay for a bad game but free it would be cool
TeroLost
I would actually play this, if/when it gets relaunched as Free-to-play.
The Monkey King
Free-to-Play MMO's are getting more popular, lately. (Vindictus, FireFall, Fantasy Earth Zero and now APB.)
Stellerman7
I didn't get this game in the first place due to subscription fees, but now I'm interested.
PiMD360
Free to play with micro transactions works well for some mmos, and even those with vip subs.
Knives39
i think this might actually work as a free to play mmo
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