bummer perhaps the team can get together and make a proper sequel to crackdown.

The worst failure in the history of MMOs.

MMOs, guys. MMOs.

I feel sorry for the people who bought that game.

" What a tremendous failure that is. I feel bad for everyone that worked hard on the game. All those man hours wasted. What a shame. "

 
APB Closing Day: 
  

What a train wreck. 

It looked like shit from the beginning.

So glad I pre-ordered this from Steam.  :-/
I still have about 50 hours of gametime credit available to play. I only played about 5 hours and decided to wait a while for them to work out the bugs, etc...  should've spent that $50 elsewhere.
Crime Craft anyone?  Oh wait....

Man, that sucks.

Realtime Worlds is on a roll. Crackdown was actually more fun than APB, and it fucking blew. The Housers are laughing their way to the bank.

This blows, a lot. APB was one of those crazy projects that float on a wing an a prayer. It was supposed to be way huge and awesome but it was terrible. Just gunna result in more studios not taking chances on crazy wild projects. I predict another season of stupid safe sequels.

LOL

The weirdest thing is that I saw somewhere that they were going to roll out a new patch in a couple of days... 1.4.2 if I remember correctly. I NEVER would've expected this so soon.

" i wanted this game to succeed to badly. Then it came out and I knew it was going to wither and die, but I wouldn't have guessed so soon. Is this some record or something? Even the Matrix Online lasted longer than this didn't it? "

Cancelled faster than a Fox sci-fi series.
 
It's too bad, but this game was a big question mark from the beginning, and the billing situation just made it not worth the time for most gamers.

Is this a new record for high-profile MMO failure?

Ahahahahahahahahahahaha..... we'll kids this is what happens when you release a broken unfinished game and your company ends up in administration... yeah bet their kicking them selves having not just made crackdown 2.. 

Time to fire up that game for a Matrix Online kind of party.

I don't think I've seen a company crash and burn so quickly after releasing a new game before in my life. 

Don't think I've seen a flop go down this quick before.

This is really sad, the game had some promise. Just felt like by the time it actually came out it was already dated.

this is what happens when you produce a pile of dogshit.

"Together we were building an absolutely amazing game"
 
What were they thinking?  Every MMO that comes out nowadays is always janky and bad from the start, and then they expect players to fund their bad game long enough for them to build it into something better.  You can't do that.  
 
Hopefully the developers and players have learned their lesson about MMOs.  I learned my lesson after I got bored of WoW and started searching for the next big hit that would compete with WoW, but all I got was some bad games that charged me monthly.

"  
APB Closing Day: 
  

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" Is this a new record for high-profile MMO failure? "

I remember once being pumped for this game..o.o

I'm not going to pay a subscription unnecessarily and I'm sure alot of other people feel the same way.  It's like childish thinking, where you attach a crazy price to something in order to get more money.   E.g.  have no money?  Sell your PC for a million pounds.

Sad, but the game was bad; went out the door too soon. Well I hope all the R&D Realtime put in won't go to waste. I wonder if Rockstar was one of the interested party? If I was them I'd snap up that customisation shit pronto.

Three months...  wow, just wow. 

The game was doomed the second someone thought ''Lets make an open worldish MMO on Unreal Engine 3. I am smart!"

I will miss this. Havnt played much recently, got distracted and wanted to take a little break because i was playing nothing but apb. Dunno whats gonna happen with my 600rtw points, probably nothing.

I hear there is atleast 1 private server up and running out there somewhere, not sure if its legit or not, might give it a try, all my hardwork on the clothes ive already done though is just going to be lost :(

even though the gameplay was boring for the most part i still sunk a lot of time into this game, sad to see all of that go down the drain.

Surprise, surprise.

APB didn't even seem like a game, it was more like a system for micro-transactions.
 
It's always nice to see greed fall on its face.

Realtime Worlds is on my street.  The place is deserted.   As the OP said: Disaster.

The second "mmo" giant bomb can watch die1!

Someone posted this link in the slashdot article comments, and it's a pretty good read:
 
  http://lukehalliwell.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/where-realtime-worlds-went-wrong/

APB wasted a bunch of time and money making a bad game. Their development bubble kept them from seeing what almost everyone else could. APB wasn't a great idea, poorly designed, lifelessly executed and strangled by a masochistic revenue system. The means justify the ends.

3 months out and its already shutting down? thats record timing!

This game makes me laugh.

I feel so bad for people that wasted money on this crap.
 
i was one of the bastards that bought into the hellgate london fiasco... well at the very least that game had a single player element to it, but still...

Wow. I shouldn't have been, but I am a bit surprised. It may have been broken as hell, but it cost about 100 million GBP to make, so I expected it to stay supported for a while longer.
 
I feel bad for everyone who now has this black mark on their CV, but thems the breaks, I'm afraid. The phrases about 'putting all your eggs in basket' & avoiding counting them until they've hatched come to mind.

Sad story...

" And they spent like 100 million making this game? What a f-ing waste of money. When I saw it for the first time I new it would suck but many people were excited about it. It was weird to me... "

I bet that Human Avatar dude is happy now >.<

And mmo's continue to befuddle me. 

Not like this...