Hellgate: London Goes Offline in February

Why can't just Namco or EA release the server executable, so anyone can host the online service?

I had such high hopes for this game. Being a Londoner I loved the fact i could play in recognisable locations, but then I got onto the beta and it all went pear shaped.

all the hype and talk by the developers about how great it was, turned out to be complete cobblers.

Hellgate was very good. I spent hundreds of hours on it months after the release. I´m very sad to see it go. They should ahve polished it more before its initial release I guess. On the other hand I guess it was the fact that the "old diablo guys" worked on it kinda made me like it even if it wasnt a top notch title.

What a terrible game !!!

I enjoyed Hellgate, and I played quite a bit of it, but only in the single-player mode. It's too bad they didn't keep it going, but there's much better stuff out on PC right now, so that makes sense.

Just to correct A LOT of you who categorize Hellgate: London as a MMO, IT'S NOT A MMO. It's just a game that has a single-player as well as a multi-player component to it. For example take COD4. It's not a FPS MMO, it's just a game that has one hell of a multi-player component to it.
Now that I hopefully got that through to you, Hellgate: London didn't really do much for me when I played the singl-player part of it. I could never "get it". Something felt out of place as if something was missing etc. Could never put my finger on it. It didn't keep me hooked on playing it.
For all those who enjoyed the multi-player part of it.....sorry.

Oh well, byebye then hellgate.

Hellgate was hardly a MMO and it was hardly a good game either. I still remember how disappointed I was when this was released. It could have been so much more.

The game is fun, I paid for the subscription for me and my girlfriend, too bad that the bugs ripped holes in the ship. I loved a lot about this game, and the patches finally started to see the game take shape.

Shame on Roper.. It bothers me to no end when a developer says that he would rather be making music.

This game seemed decent enough I'm surprised it got shot down so soon.

Hellgate was alright and there were some things that worked very well. However a lot of the mechanics which are supposed to make games fun never really materialized or were severely underdepveloped. Like with so many games these days, excluding LAN options was a huge mistake.

there are wayy wayyy too many MMOs out in the market - there has to be some sorta quota or something lol

well. it wasn't technically an mmo. i mean. it still has an offline mode. and online mode was more like guild wars. big lobby way stations where you could hook up with people to quest with. so really it was just had a fancy online multiplayer lobby.

owww, poor ol' MMO #64

when will publishers learn that theres no point making an MMO unless you are going to make it awesome....

Any game that has a single player portion is not an MMO game. Yes that includes Phantasy Star Online.
Too bad for some dudes, I've never played the game so don't really care much.

It's sad to see any game fail, but honestly this game wasn't really the best. When there are so many MMOs out there, you can afford to release buggy and broken games like Hellgate.

Was the single-player shit worth playing?  Maybe I can pick it up in a bargain bin. Hell they should give it away on their website now.

Absolutely. Now that I know it's ending, I don't want to touch Hellgate: London's multiplayer at all. It's just going to disappoint me if I end up actually enjoying the online.

Well, I was totally unaware that this could happen!! How dare they?? The game's so brilliant!

Poor Bill Roper.

He was trying to do good leaving Blizzard back when it was uncertain of their fate (a little before WoW's colossal success was cemented) when Vivendi was talking about selling their game division off.  He left along with, what?, 9 others?  And started Flagship.  But without the ability to take as long as they could and without the team that they had at Blizzard, they just couldn't quite get Hellgate to look or play as well as the Diablo games him and his team were most famous for.  It is too bad.  I would like to see him and his team back with Blizzard, working on Diablo 3... but let's face it, the chances of that are slimmer than 2 SoJs dropping in a single game.

It's too bad for the subscribers that paid the $150 at release, this game has hardly been out for a year and is already being put to rest.

Hmm, that's a shame.  I was looking for something to tide me over until Diablo 3.

I was never a big fan of this game or its online subscription model, and I can't say I'm surprised to see it die so quickly.

Shame.

Hellgate: London wasn't 2 bad, but it wasn't 2 good either :(

Hellgate london was not an MMO it was a diablo clone

*salutes*

This is the problem with the MMO market. Too many games, too many servers, and not enough people to play them all proportionately.