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APB given release date, payment details

Critical Gamer writes: Realtime Worlds forthcoming cops and robbers themed MMO action game All Points Bulletin has been given a 2nd July release date in Europe, with North America getting the hotly anticipated title on June 29th.

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CyberCam5258d ago

is not for me... I'll pass thank you very much!

scruffy_bear5258d ago

I agree CyberCam, I'm going to pass too

chak_5258d ago

hm yeah didn't see the playment thingy.

well I guess it's an MMO, I'll for review anyway, they better be good if I have to pay

Jockie5258d ago

The sub is pretty reasonably priced and with 50 hours out of the box, if the game doesn't have masses of content that's more than enough to see everything it has to offer. Last game I spent more than 50 hours on must have been somethin like Dragon age.

DeadlyFire5258d ago

Well its the first game I have seen that gives you the option to convert in game cash into the fee though so really $10 a month isn't so bad depending on how much in game cash you can make and if you can make enough to cancel out that fee.

On average and big MMOs most charge $15 a month.

JohnnyMann4205258d ago (Edited 5258d ago )

If you were to take a 100 APB Beta players, about 80 of them would tell you this game is just fundamentally not fun. I'm in the beta and it sucked. The driving was awkward and not fun to the feel. the shooting was alright. the missions were boring and lame. Also it seems to lack structure even though there is a goal,etc.

At the end of the day most would agree APB is just not fun.

In it's current state I would give it a 6-10.

Don't expect it to be a GTA MMO experience...well.....done in a fashion that is fun that is.

LennyRodders5258d ago

@JohnnyMann420

I agree, I'm in the beta too, and it's really poor.
Nothing going for it, although the customisation is good and has a lot of detail, the gameplay doesn't follow it. It just sucks

Instead of me paying them, I'd rather them pay me to play

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Lirky5258d ago

you can have fun without paying "gaming bills". playing other online games that are not pay to play.

distorted_reality5258d ago

Can't wait - been in the beta and it's a lot of fun. The payment method sounds ok - not as good as I was hoping but good enough. As long as there's servers near me i'll be in for sure.

mauleriscool5258d ago

beta was alright. Pretty cool customization and concept. But not worth spending 10 bucks a month.

I'd rather wait for a GTA mmo.

jay25258d ago

You people should stop bi%$&^g and whining, I bet at least one of you (including people that post below) pay £15 a month for WOW without a second thought.

APB's very fun, I'm not going to hesitate to pay for it monthly.

scruffy_bear5258d ago

I'll never paid a monthly fee for any game be it WOW or APB

CyberCam5258d ago

I never have and never will!!

JohnnyMann4205258d ago

To each is own... but most people that have played APB think it sucks. Honestly im surprised they are trying to get away with a monthly charge.

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Why MMO Games Fail - DevilsMMO

From DevilsMMO:

'It occurs to me that the MMO, as it currently stands in the industry, is something of a hit and miss affair. The average gamer, equipped with a console and every shooter ever made, generally only ever hears about the very biggest MMOs or, failing that, the MMOs that manage to crash and burn the hardest.

This was brought back home to me last week when I received a comment on one of my articles in which the commenter believed most MMOs are destined to fail, and fail quickly. Rather than take that statement at face value, I’ve been thinking through why that would be; what makes a game that has had thousands of hours of development hours plugged into it just fail?'

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One Year On: Remembering Realtime Worlds, Scotland's Next Big Videogame Success Story

Scotland-based developers Realtime Worlds created the critically acclaimed Xbox 360 title, Crackdown. They seemed to have a bright future ahead. Unfortunately, that was not to be the case...

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Splitkick - Demo Dilemma

Splitkick: “What the hell happened?” That was my basic sentiment after playing about two hours of Brink on my PS3. I left PAX East 2011 proclaiming Brink my “game of the show” after playing a hands-on demo, and was hotly anticipating its retail release. So about nine weeks, and thirty bad reviews later, I was left wondering how something that seemed so promising in the recent past could now be such a sub-par product.

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