And here is another great reason I think the game is gonna be well..bad 
 
Audio Ads..every..three...hours

Realtime Worlds should have just stuck with making amazing open world games like Crackdown. I see this game going the same route as Tabula Rasa.

Dammit, another reason to skip APB. it looked so good last year, too.

Audio ads. Pay-per-time. They should just go all out and stick in some random character animations of your dude chuggin a Dew after which he/she turns around and yells "Do the Dew!" all up in yer face!! 
 
...and then spams your inbox.
 
I can't remember many games that went from ten to zero on the anticipation scale quite like this one did.

Do the Dew, bro!

To me this is just going to far. And even showing they blew past their budget. That is why they changed from free to play. To pay to play 

" Do the Dew, bro! "

Did you hear that they tried to embargo reviews until a week after release?  I thought that was quite amusing.

Snap into a slim jim, Brah.

 One 30 second ad when you first enter a district and then you will only hear it again if you join another district after playing for 3 hours, hardly noticable. 
 
Hardly anyone worth mentioning is going to be using the ingame voip anyway. Vent/TS/whatever is always better than whatever MMOs offer.

"  One 30 second ad when you first enter a district and then you will only hear it again if you join another district after playing for 3 hours, hardly noticable.   Hardly anyone worth mentioning is going to be using the ingame voip anyway. Vent/TS/whatever is always better than whatever MMOs offer. "

Thats a bit ridiculous. My dislike for this game is steadily increasing.

My friend is Beta-testing and I gathered that there are specific problems with that game but nothing shocking.

It isnt really going to bother me but the problem here is Vivox. RTW is using them for voip and obvously its gonna cost them money to license the software.
 
Im guessing they think they wont be able to afford that without charging people a little extra?

It's too bad too since I had high hopes for this game. After playing in both the beta and the "keys to the city", I can safely say that this game is poo.

Like you're doing anything else while a district loads... Christ, don't you watch television? I wish I only got one 30 second ad every 3 hours. I don't even have enough spare time to hear a second one.

This game had so much promise..but well..playing the beta crushed my hopes. 
 
Not to mention what they tried with not allowing reviews for a week untill after release. 

I have fun with it. Maybe because I came from play CS for like 5  years then CS:S for another couple years. And that was without any cars, voice chat (first version of CS anyways) no new weapons, and ass holes with AWM's that snipe you through walls constantly.  
 
Then again, it was free all those years. 
 
That's why I like the idea of paying for game time. So I can chose between playing a whole month or just buy 20 hours and spread it out an hour here and there when I have the time. I think audio ads is cheap, but at the same time it won't bother me since it's just when you enter a district after the 3 hour mark.

I heard one of those ads was... 
 
I loves me some Trojan Condoms!!! I go balls deep son, BALLS DEEP!!!

I found the beta pretty weak myself. But i mean having to actually listen to the ads ingame is just a terrible idea, if anything it better be that slap chop remix commercial :l

Calling it now. This game has 18 months. It will 1. Go the way of Gloabl Agenda and drop the sub in favor a GW model 2. Go F2P with a cash shop 3. Keep the subscription and watch the number of players drop over time.

"Calling it now. This game has 18 months. It will 1. Go the way of Gloabl Agenda and drop the sub in favor a GW model 2. Go F2P with a cash shop 3. Keep the subscription and watch the number of players drop over time. "

I guess they'll squeeze  as much money as they can from this game before it fall flat on it's face.

if you're using the games own voip you're doing it very wrong anyway, all those complaining about adverts, remember that you live on planet earth, not in your magical dream fairy land. either nut up, or shut up.

" I can't remember many games that went from ten to zero on the anticipation scale quite like this one did. "

The beta turned me completely away and listening to adds would just make it ever worse 

I just want that character creation engine(?) licensed out to every mmo from now on. I loved creating a character in that game.

Played the beta, hated the game, do not want.

I'd give them some extra nails for their coffin, but I don't think they have any space left on that lid.

Well, the early access for pre-orders didn't have any ads. Atleast not the European version.

I've never even heard of this game until now, but that subscription system put me off right away. 

is a 30 second ad really that bloodcurdlingly awful? man up and just accept it. It would be a stupid to not buy the game because you don't want to listen to an ad. you could always turn down the volume! 
 
and I love the idea of buying time to play rather than paying a monthly fee, and doesn't APB offer both styles of payment plans? I hope i can test the game out before it comes out cus it doesn't look so bad, but based on all you guys saying the beta sucks i'd like to try an open beta or something

" I've never even heard of this game until now, but that subscription system put me off right away.  "

This is not cool and yet I'm not overly surprised.

" @Hourai said:

" I've never even heard of this game until now, but that subscription system put me off right away.  "

Why? I think it's a fairly good deal. Either you play a lot and pay marginally more than for a static amount of hours which will last forever. So if I play 2hours per week or so it'd be much cheaper than paying a monthly subscription. It's a good offer and I'll be making use of it. "

Yeah, everything about APB sounds like it was designed by people only a little bit smarter than the developers of CrimeCraft. Just a little bit.

Havnt heard a single add yet, not sure whats going on there. What i have heard though is everyone who has a mic, all the time. They dont realise it always on all you can hear is low quality music/tv, people mashing keys, some guys sniffing every 2 seconds and some french dude having an arguement with his roommate...

" Havnt heard a single add yet, not sure whats going on there. What i have heard though is everyone who has a mic, all the time. They dont realise it always on all you can hear is low quality music/tv, people mashing keys, some guys sniffing every 2 seconds and some french dude having an arguement with his roommate... "