APB Insider: 'Realtime Worlds Lied To EA'

NowGamer: An inside source has told NowGamer about the problems facing Realtime Worlds: “The last 6 months was chaos and no one seemed to know what they were doing. The amount of lies told, especially to EA, was unbelievable..."

[Feckles]

If only APB had this amount of publicity before it was released... Maybe they would have sold copies and wouldn't have suffered the closure.

[Immortal321]

I didn't hear anything good about the 360 yet, besides halo reach......

[skyward]

Losing $2 million a month - way to put pressure on an untested game...

[nickjkl]

i think apb is the biggest failure in gaming

come on in development for 7 years and spending over 100 million for development and still couldnt get the game done thats gotta hurt for the people that gambled and put up the money for that

@ freckles not to mention gta4 was multiplatform

thing that makes me sad is it looked like a great idea but was poorly executed from the reviews ive been reading

[Feckles]

$100 million is GTA IV-type money. For that you'd expect a GTA IV-style game and GTA IV-style revenues. And to risk all that money on a new IP? Who on earth made that decision?

[00]

The same guy that started the GTA franchise.

[Conloles]

Try Duke Nukem Forever

[Trunkz]

At least the GTA-IV was on consoles as well, this was 100 million on a PC only title XD

[il-mouzer]

WOW costed around the same and it's a PC only game, it's not the platform thats the problem it's the game - the shooting mechanics were just horrible as was the driving.

[DelbertGrady]

Anyone know what Too Human cost?

[skyward]

Too Much

[Rybakov]

it cost the price of fail

[Dread]

Im sorry but i was under the impresison that APB begfan development after they finished Crackdown. Thus it could not have been in development for more than three years. Can you provide a link that states that APB was in development for seven years?

[Xx Ziyad xX]

both games development in same time , its simple !

[Zachmo182]

Ok but look at it this way then....In one week GTA sold more then this game on one Console.

[Apollyn]

The game really isnt THAT bad i still enjoy it theres far worst and better out there but the game still is enjoyable.

[DirtyLary]

Well, the aimbotters enjoyed it.

[Nodoze]

WOW. There is no WAY I would have invested 100 million from an almost untested developer. Sure they released Crackdown, which with the Halo 3 beta crutch went on to sell reasonably well. It wasn't a bad game, but certainly didn't break any ground.

To throw them a 100 mil budget to develop an MMO...not a chance. I can see 100 mil for the Star Wars Bioware MMO. I mean first it is Bioware, and next it is STAR WARS. People will pay!

APB never stood a chance. Didn't someone from EA question ongoing investment in this project during milestone meetings? If not it is EA's fault for not pulling the plug sooner.

[ZombieAutopsy]

They should of just done a cheap port and threw it on xbox/ps3 i'm sure more people would of played it on them than on PC.

[il-mouzer]

that's because console gamers would buy all the crap that's thrown at their face without even thinking :P

[Motion]

I really wonder what they spent that 100 million on. The game looks ok, but they didn't have to develop the engine, from what I hear there isn't a ton of content, so what did they actually do to spend that much money?

[belowradar]

Coke and hookers galore!

[NYC_Gamer]

This studio is really untested and never was fit to build an mmo title

[Rybakov]

maybe if the game didn't suck it might get sales and was free to play but oh wait it sucks

[koehler83]

If it wasn't for all the turmoil, I'd have no idea APB had even launched.

[Honest_gamer]

Well the changes are high and I mean VERY HIGH that these guys will NEVER make a game again or at least not as real time worlds heard on the radio they went into administration on august the 17th only around 50 people are left and thats to keep the servers going on APB it’s a bummer I planned to attempt to work there after I got out of uni >.<