Realtime Worlds' All Points Bulletin (APB) will be released tomorrow with pre-order customers already causing chaos in the crime-filled massively-multiplayer shooter and/or socializing game. The game has a unique payment structure, which allows players to buy blocks of hours to play in the game's 'Action Districts' -- where all the shooting happens -- or simply purchase a monthly subscription.

An early purchaser noticed an interesting option (via Massively) in their account settings: the option for "VOIP Premium", which "removes ads from the voip for 30, 90, and 180 days."
As the forums began to work themselves up into a rabid fury, a community manager for the game clarified the program. Vivox, the company that provides the voice chat technology for APB, will serve advertisements over the VOIP system. Ads will be played at least three hours apart and only upon entering districts so gameplay isn't interrupted.

In a recent telephone roundtable before E3, lead designer EJ Moreland initially said that the game would not carry microtransactions, but later clarified to Shacknews that Realtime Worlds "will be developing and offering a wide variety of [in-game] points-based services to expand and augment APB after release." The option to remove these ads is most certainly in exchange for real currency.

The more I hear about this game the less I want to play it

" "Hey guys, look at my awesome ne-" "HUNGRY? WANT A GREAT FAMILY MEAL? FOR JUST $19.95 YOU CAN HAVE 2 LARGE PIZZA'S, A GARLIC BREAD AND A 1.25 COKE DELIVERED. ONLY FROM PIZZA HUT" "

" There is already a thread here. :( "

" @NekuSakuraba said:

" There is already a thread here. :( "

Damn. I wish people would name threads a bit better. "

They use a seperate company for Voip so to keep it suposedly free, they push ads through every 3 hours but only if you change districts. So you can  play for 10 hours straight in the action distsrict and not hear anything until you go to social.