A few days ago Realtime Worlds announced that they were completely shutting down all the servers for it, effectively killing the game.

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AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 I KNEW THIS GAME WOULDN'T LAST!

/facepalm

I'm not suprised. Well doesen't bother me. I never played it as it was p2p.

I'm not suprised. Well doesen't bother me. I never played it as it was p2p.

Same. I was going to get my friend it a while back but then I saw it was p2p.

Being one of the early beta players of it, I thought it was a fun game (if not rather more inventive in it's subscription lay out, as paying for actual game time is more suitable for me than paying for a month I might play a week or two of), but they cost themselves a lot of cash in under-guessing just what hardware requirements they'd need from the start.

Don't know if it's the end end though yet, there's already some rumours of some potential investments to 'restore' it some, the game could kick off financially if it had enough time I think.

Being one of the early beta players of it, I thought it was a fun game (if not rather more inventive in it's subscription lay out, as paying for actual game time is more suitable for me than paying for a month I might play a week or two of), but they cost themselves a lot of cash in under-guessing just what hardware requirements they'd need from the start.

Don't know if it's the end end though yet, there's already some rumours of some potential investments to 'restore' it some, the game could kick off financially if it had enough time I think.

I wish I'd beta tested it or at least played it. It did look good.

If it does come back, I doubt it would be soon. If Realtime worlds didn't bring it back then there would be quite a few legal processes to hand the game info over probably. And I agree, given time and enough publicity, it could get very popular.

Well RTW themselves effectively bankrupted themselves spending too much in the initial development days, the beta was a blast even with what few people there were at first. I mean it wasn't really the kind of game with any 'story' to it, it was literally just a grindhouse shoot 'em up, basically it was GTA 4 mixed with some Saints Row 2, but considering how massive scale it was the latency was great towards the end of the beta.

I never ended up buying it, the $60 price tag at release was a bit steep for me, though I was planning to buy it recently. They already pulled it from steam as well though too, shame. And yes, chances are RTW is never gonna just hand over the code to anyone without basically licensing it to them.

Though they were pretty much bankrupt, (cost something like $50mil to develop and I heard only 10,000 copies were sold) I think if they'd kept it going longer, advertised it much more and even put sales on, they would have got so many more people playing and therefore earned the money back quicker. Sounds like a good game though aside from the latency.

As I keep saying, lower price (only a bit), sales, advertising = much more popular and money making.

Had to be more than 10k sold, the pre-order's alone were pretty crazy, I remember quite a few places who had their pre-order's sold out fast.

And I said the latency was great towards the end, not bad

There was a lot of lag in the earlier days, but towards the end of the pseudo public-beta (when they let all the fileplanet folks and stuff in) the game was running great, you'd have something like 80 people on an instance I think it was and barely lagged at all.

Had to be more than 10k sold, the pre-order's alone were pretty crazy, I remember quite a few places who had their pre-order's sold out fast.

And I said the latency was great towards the end, not bad

There was a lot of lag in the earlier days, but towards the end of the pseudo public-beta (when they let all the fileplanet folks and stuff in) the game was running great, you'd have something like 80 people on an instance I think it was and barely lagged at all.

Ah right, my bad. I really should pay attention to fileplanet too as they always seem to get access to early beta's and stuff on the good games.

Owning the game, and having ~30 hours of game-time, this sucks.

Owning the game, and having ~30 hours of game-time, this sucks.

Ouch. Well, was the ~30 hours good?

God thanks i didn't buy it. It feels like the game was a huge ripoff.

Monthly fee.

Game price.

And now they're just closing the servers.

The least they could have done is to give some refunds to people.

God thanks i didn't buy it. It feels like the game was a huge ripoff.

Monthly fee.

Game price.

And now they're just closing the servers.

The least they could have done is to give some refunds to people.

They shut the fucking forums down too, so you can't even complain.

They shut the fucking forums down too, so you can't even complain.

Ugh... Now that's just stupid. I feel for those who bought the game. Hopefully they atleast had some good time playing it.

I smell lawsuits and angry nerd mobs

I smell lawsuits and angry nerd mobs

I somehow don't.

Spent the past 2 mornings on APB blowing peoples cars up by fuck-ramming with a dump truck

For some reason they </3 me after :S