End of a Line

[jdotmi]

Hellgate London is closing it's doors today in North America. The game, and company, sorta wound up being the definition of Epic Fail, but it's still no fun seeing it close. I enjoyed the game during Beta, and a bit after launch, but there just wasn't enough to it to keep people interested. Their planned business model really made no sense at all, either. So, the company folded and now a year later Namco is shutting down the servers.

I bought the Collector's Edition of the game. I'm not really upset that I did because I really did enjoy the game and think it had a lot of potential. The real reason it failed was the business behind the game, not the game itself.

Go google Flagshipped. Seriously. While the people on that site are very wrong about some things, they definitely got a lot of good information about what exactly happened to make the ship sink.

Comments

[blakesrealm.livejournal.com]

I bought two copies here, one for myself (CE) and one for the wife (Reg) and ... erm ... I was so jazzed and just had some into some money (which thankfully 95% went towards paying bills) I ... erm ... uh ... paid for a lifetime subscription.

*cries*

Now Roper is front and center being a face / talking head for Champions Online. For that reason alone I'm not going to buy that game. If it comes out and sounds like it's the best game ever I might look at it, once there's a free trial, but I'm so mad at him that I'm that petty.

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

I have mixed feelings with Champions Online. Roper isn't a complete moron (hello Diablo 2), and in this case he's working for others instead of being the man in charge. Plus, I thought it looked like liquid ass before he got onboard (I do not like the graphic style of the game so far at all), so his presence isn't really doing much more to hinder it than it already was.

On the other hand, it's Cryptic, and I'm a big ol' City of Heroes junkie.

[blakesrealm.livejournal.com]

Being that I really could never get into CoH/V, despite trying it many times, I think I'm going to end up being very cautious with the game. I just really have a big hate-on for Roper so will probably take it to stupid levels.

Then again ... I'm a big MMO dork and if I have even a little burnout going with WoW (or whatever secondary game I might have going) I'm sure I'll jump all over it out of desperation for my MMO fix.