Nailed it!

I always said from the beta that it wouldnt last long. Combined with the fucking idiots who play it, and the constant doubt RealTimeWorlds were not gonna last long, this is a joy to behold. I'm so so happy i didnt fork out for any gametime. booya!

I played the beta and it was really crazy how many people were giving poor feedback, yet at the time Realtime Worlds were acting as if the game was running perfectly. Even saying that though I'm surprised the game only lasted 3 months, this must be the shortest lived MMO ever! (Not even really an MMO)

Have your say here...

Is this a first?? I've never heard of an mmo calling it quits so fast......damn

I also saw this one coming...but I too was a fool and bought the game :(

I didn't believe it would actually shut down this fast, even if I said so multiple times before its release.

" 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/ "

Wow, that is very soon after launch. Has any MMO failed this fast?

Now I am a bit worried for Star Trek Online, I've had the impression that it has had more trouble than APB, especially reception wise - and I've been wanting to give STO a try, would it be worth the risk to invest in the STO client this far after launch?

MMO's have no chance in this world unless it's a WoW clone (meaning it'll survive for a year or two) or a really niche math game like EVE.

I'm glad I didn't put any more money into it. I enjoyed it for about 20 hours or so, but then I put it down and haven't picked it up again since then. Too bad... it could have been something cool, but it ultimately just didn't have a lot of staying power.

This is what happens when you release something half baked.  It flops and your company dies.

Wow, I'm glad I quit ahead of time..
This game wasn't for people bad at shooters, or with slow computers..
 
And I was both..
 
I now have a $70.00 souvenir of a game that no longer works.

Quickest out of door to doom MMO ever?

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Wow, that is very soon after launch. Has any MMO failed this fast?

Now I am a bit worried for Star Trek Online, I've had the impression that it has had more trouble than APB, especially reception wise - and I've been wanting to give STO a try, would it be worth the risk to invest in the STO client this far after launch?

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So, I'm guessing this means you guys are going to do another MMO Death Endurance Run?

game was hella gross so whatever!

Wow, according to Wikipedia the servers were shut down about 4 hours ago, or around 8 pm GMT. That's on the same day it was announced they would be closed down.

So, no 30 day notice or anything like that.

" So, I'm guessing this means you guys are going to do another MMO Death Endurance Run? "

to bad for those who bought it

thats a real shame apb had so much potential

" game was hella gross so whatever! "

I never purchased it or even felt like getting it even before it was released to negative reviews, but shutting the game down without even a days notice is really, really poor customer relations.

They had 130000 customers after all, probably a decent bunch of them who still had a lot of purchased game time left.

So is it safe to say that APB was the biggest failure in the history of Video Games? 
Hope RTW guys make it out OK, though.

" So is it safe to say that APB was the biggest failure in the history of Video Games? Hope RTW guys make it out OK, though. "

terrible when an mmo has a shorter shelf life than development cycle.

" Should have just made Crackdown 2. "

Some people gave David Jones a large amount of money. He did not live up to those expectations. Probably 5 years too late for this type of game.

Fastest closure of an MMO ever?

People are only going to pay so much a month for video games subs and WoW sort of has a monopoly of $15 of whatever that, probably small, number is.  I've only known one person who signed up for more than one of these things at a time.  It seems like a brutal market to crack so your game needs to be amazing and not APB.

Ha! Even The Matrix Online lasted longer than this! It is a little sad, because i thought that some of the concepts within the game were pretty interesting. They were just poorly executed.

Holy hell, that was quick. Sad to hear about another studio going under

Sooo,,, does this mean a mini-endurance run, Matrix Online style?

" @zombie2011 said:

" Should have just made Crackdown 2. "

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oh it shut down already? god dammit RTW, at least give me time to screenshot the desgins i spent so long working on

An appropriate end to an awful game. Any one invited into Beta testing knows what I'm talking about.  I was very much looking forward to this game, until I played it.....  
 
It seemed the only people who like this game are people who pre-ordered it years ago. I guess they couldn't come to terms with the fact that they waited years for a terd. 
 
No one should feel bad for Realtime Worlds. If you make a crappy game, then try to scam people into buying it, Chapter 11 is what you deserve.

It's too bad that people lost their jobs, but this deserved to fail.

not shocking in the least

Sadly, APB was busted like Hellgate: London was busted.  Too bad to spend all that scratch on a game and see it fail.

refund....lol

I'm such a horrible person; something deep within me is telling me to LOL.

A shame that we didn't get a 30 day notice, so that we could watch it die in a "Not Like This" fashion.

Yes, this will go a long ways to make sure people never buy MMO's...and the death of that genre cannot come quickly enough. It's amazing that all of them, save one, tend to be epic disappointments/disasters.

Hold on a minute. So an MMO that didn't have the words "World of Warcraft" in it's title has been unsuccesful?....I don't believe it.

Is this the shortest run for an MMO ever?

OK, who here signed up for the lifetime subscription?

3 months is pretty shocking, I'm more leery than ever to invest in an MMO not operated by Blizzard.