Man, I will never play APB for the simple fact that I don't play MMOs, but judging from the intro video above the game has an immensely interesting idea behind it. What if we all just started shooting at each other in a completely legal manner? I mean, that pretty much sums it up, and yet there is so much behind that.
I think if EA handles the growth and development of the game and its world right, APB could not only be a blast to play, but a really interesting look at a different outcome of legalized vigilantism and gang warfare. Then again, I could just be over thinking it and it'll just be a great way to create a gang and shoot people in other gangs. Yea, that's probably it.
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6:00 PM on 05.22.2010 | 
grammar nazis, go nuts.
"create and gang and shoot people in other gangs"
Tsk tsk.
A penis behemoth?
Doesn't MAG even allow up to 256 players on one server for free? Sure it's not persistent or huge, but still. Any game billing itself as an MMO should offer servers that can handle hundreds (if not thousands) of people all at once.
Of course, I don't really know much about MMOs so I could be totally wrong. But I'll take Magnalon's word as truth.
Also, this game looks extremely fucking generic, but then what game doesn't these days?
So the short version of what I said is, don't write it off because it costs money to pay you bloody cheapskates :D
Some people just want good value!
That said, the game isn't a blast to play right now. There's a shitload of balancing to do. But it's beta, so we'll see what happens later on.
As for the 100 people in one server thing. No, it isn't really big enough in my opinion. There's a back-up feature that can be pretty damn useless sometimes because no one responds to it. This can easily be solved with more players in one server. While it is fun, they need to do some serious upgrading to make everyone happy. It's a game you play in short bursts - not a hardcore game you can play for hours on end.
I will not support pay-to-play on top of purchasing the game though. If it is a service with a membership fee, why am I buying the game at the start? Ridiculous.
I think personally, that no matter how rich you are, paying monthly, as well as the asking retail price, for one game makes you a retard. Nothing to do with money, if you are willing to do that for one game, you are an idiot. No doubt about it.
Why should I have to pay for a game, and then pay close enough to the retail price every month to continue playing?
if it was just a monthly fee, I might be willing to, at least for a while, with this and maybe secret world.
but I have never wanted to, for that basic reason, they ask for that subscription PLUS the same price as regular games, and if it ever went offline, it would be useless, with no single player mode whatsoever.
You think that maybe your subscription fee helps the developer upkeep their game, develop new content to keep people interested, and make a profit? Just a thought.
You can either pay monthly for unlimited gameplay, or pay for gameplay hours. Meaning, if you have 90 hours on your account, and on the first week you play 5 and then leave it alone for a YEAR, you'll still have 85 hours left.
You can even sell your ingame designs, tunes and more and pay the subscription fee with it. You get Realtime Points for selling those, and you can convert those to hours or the monthly fee. You can read all about the pricing plan here: http://www.destructoid.com/apb-up-for-parole-gets-out-in-june-172501.phtml .
And this video has been the beta's intro for a while now. I'm surprised it was released just now. (I'm in the beta. Sorry, can't say another word since I'm bound by an NDA.)
My lesson from this is: next time I decide to shell out money to pre-order a game, I should think twice, because the earlier you buy it, the harder you get screwed over.
Smart of them to use this as a way to get a little bit of positive marketing spin on the fiasco though, it makes people who get the minor refund to feel as if they were actually compensated, when it's actually less than the least they should do.
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