HIDE YO’ KIDS! HIDE YO’ WIVES! APB is back from the dead.

{ November 11, 2010 @ 10:20 pm } · { Uncategorized }

There are many words to describe the week I had. Most of them are unsutable for print, but lets just say three exams and The Shaft’s server being down has put me in a grim mood. Sure, Black Ops came out, and while that’s been a blast it didn’t really bring my mood back to even.  So on a break from trying to understand what the hell “magenetic induction” is, I browsed the internet. While looking for naughty pictures, I happened to stumble upon Gamespot, and this…

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6283928.html

Needless to say I made a royal mess of my pants. I was hoping APB would be picked up in some capacity. I had given up on the full game being revived, but hoped some developer got the various technical goodies. Not only has the game been resurrected, but it’s now with the company that hosts Knights Online and WarRock.

K2N did not release a statement, but look for APB to re-release before 2011. Knowing K2N, it will likely be F2P with a heavy concentration on microtransactions. And don’t worry about them not making a profit. While RTW spent over $100M making APB, K2N only payed $2.4M for the whole thing. If that’s not a ROFL moment I don’t know what is.

Sadly it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. APB was a very technical game, and without the backing of EA Games’ cash flow, keeping the game up to par may be hard. Thankfully, before they imploded RTW was able to patch up many of the big issues. Granted, if it’s free I doubt many will complain.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go listen to a 10 year old scream expletives at me while running around with an AK47.

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