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APB: An innovation in the MMO world

I’ve been seeing a lot of different MMOs over the past 2 years crop up and fall to shit simply because there’s no innovation. Everything seems to be copying the same model and trying to throw own different little gimmicks that don’t ever mesh well with the trinity of MMORPGs (Healers, Tanks, DPS). I won’t go on listing the titles here but safe to say that juggernaut World of Warcraft is the only title that seems to have done things right enough to continue fielding new players and rake in the cash.

All Points Bulletin really has my attention. It had it a while ago during it’s announcement and even now it’s managed to go up a few notches. I’m already pretty cautious after the complete fucking failure that was Aion (let’s hope NCsoft changes things and give players more incentive to give them a second chance) so the idea of yet another MMO-type game has me leery.

Concerns not withstanding, APB looks like an interesting game. Here’s their latest podcast where you get to actually see some of the story behind the game, the lore if you will.

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The Deathknell for WAR

Well I can say now that WAR has been officially shit-canned.

Mythic was hit recently with about 80 layoffs reducing their development team by almost half. This news was rumored and confirmed earlier this week and personally, I’m thinking that WAR’s servers will be done sometime soon. The game itself never really held any appeal for me and I still stand by my statement that if they had released an MMO held in the Warhammer 40k universe that it would have been infinitely more successful than another supposed “WoW killer”.

To make matters worse for profits, you can now pretty much play WAR for free, forever. It seems that Mythic is trying everything they can to save face after the complete publicity shit-storm that went down during the early months of their release. I blame that British accented asshole in all those interviews and videos that seemed way too coked up to be talking in front of a camera.

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