GRTV caught up with Zombie Studios' Jared Gerritzen to talk about getting Blacklight Retribution onto PS4.
"About two years ago at E3 we got pulled into a big secret meeting by one of my friends from a previous studio that went to Sony. And they said that they got an initiative to start working with indie developers and he brought me in. And I met with some of their guys and a bunch of devs that all just happen to be doing PlayStation 4 games right now. It was really great getting brought into that, and the first thing that I said though was "if we're going to do this I want to feel the controller", and so a couple months later they had me come down to Sony San Francisco and I got to see the controller and I said absolutely. It's all history now. It's been crazy. We got the rights back for Blacklight on the console and so when we did that... you know, we talked to both [Microsoft and Sony]. And Sony said "we're doing indie development" and it was just kind of one of those things where we had to do it."
Blacklight Retribution PS4 operations will continue without official support but the game's PC version has been shut down.
Shut the servers down but let people host their own and keep these games active for those who want to play. Its bullshit when they kill a game completely when they could easy patch it for hosting / creating online content
Hardsuit Labs has mentioned that the Blacklight Retribution servers are shutting down on March 11 for PC, though PS4 version will continue as is. All items in the PC store are now free.
Remember playing this when I first got a ps4. Never good news to see games shut down I guess one day online only games can bite the dust
This is why buying into these sort of games are a bad idea.
That's like saying buying cod at 60 is bad..cause you know a new version is coming and you won't play last years
Not even slightly the same. I can still play Modern Warfare 2 because, guess what, it still works online AND it has offline modes. This applies to I think every Call of Duty game.
With Blacklight, everything you've ever purchased is gone forever after the servers are gone, and you can never play the game again.
Is there no other f2p games.....Apex legends just came out..play the new version
See this is why online mp only games effing sucks and definitely will never support them. ;)
Depending how much of a cult following it has, it could be revived by some mod team in the distant future. Similar cases have happened with games like 2142 and Star Wars Galaxies.
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