If the price was right, sounds pretty low risk. Marginal costs are low, and incremental revenue from virtual goods may make it worth the bet.

#1 APB was not a bad game, Playing it from beta to flop, the essential element that killed it was the lack of communication from the employees in RTW. The employees responsible for reading the tech forums were not communicating properly with the employees responsible for correcting issues. On top of that their roles got mixed and fogged causing certain technical errors to snowball to the point of game managers going on the forums and saying things were fine or not responding to player's complaints at all. The game itself had pioneering content; 1) If you like to customize your character, this game had unparalleled content. 2) If you like your graphics sharp, the unreal3 engine had you covered, 3) If you want quick and conclusive PVP matches, this game had that to a science 4) and If you like VIOP that would make you laugh, this game had voice activated mic (that many players forget to turn off, which made it even more funny). It was a legit and functioning title without support basically, its pay model originally was pretty unorthodox (ex: buy the title, pay for hours, use in-game content to purchase or sell more content or more hours) which, even in the first week, allowed players to exploit it to its fullest before a patch. Switching to a Free to play but pay for toys model could possibly save it. This would also allow players to sample the game without inuring the risk of it flopping. Vouching for myself, when the game died, something was missing in my games until COD Black Ops came out, but you still cant make your own (completely your own) soldier or vehicle when you get bored of twitch shooting. I for one will be following this game closely and I am excited for its return because it was a shame it died so shortly due to bad managing.On a final note, comparing the original game to WoW is not a fair assessment. WoW is of the fantasy genre backed with a budget and staff from many previous successful titles. RTW had one success; Crackdown. Too many online RPGs are compared to WoW, and its not to say its a good example of a successful model, its just being used as a common standard to rate all games that move online for the past decade. For many players like myself I see WoW as a pioneer of a original and successful model, but risk adverse in providing innovative content that changes the way games are played.

Honestly, this is amazing to find out, though in a bad way. My computer crapped out and all of a sudden I find I can't play the game for the whole summer since it comes out. I upgrade and come back and suddenly I can't sign on to the game. “Odd,” I think to myself.Then a little bit a snooping around leads me to this article. What the crap? This game was fun because it didn't have mindless grind! As soon as I got in the world I barely had time to get ammo between being chased by the Vigilante Cops or going on the next mission because someone asked for back-up. That's just the fan bit.From a logical sense, the game doesn't have priorities to higher-maintenance thinkers, like critics, these people are nit-picky if they're peas aren't on the same side of the plate. YES… All games have bugs, this is a batch of 250 people we're talking about. This is not Blizzard, who have half of the world working for them. They didn't have the experience to sign-up more than enough overseers and this is what they got in return.If this game goes free-to-play, I believe we'll have just as much fun while it's out. I wonder if people who bought this game will be able to keep their weapons? For anyone who hasn't tried it, when it goes free… Why not?

i actually really wanted to play the game but after i saw u had to pay and play i said f**k this.but if it does go free to play then i will definitely play it and i'll get my friend to play too.

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