The saga of Realtime Worlds continues, this time with a happy ending for 23 employees of the MyWorld project that were laid off earlier this month. In a press release from business restructuring firm Begbies Traynor, administrator Ken Pattullo lays out the details. "As a smaller entity, MyWorld is attracting considerable interest from potential buyers and 23 members of the team who had been working on the project clearly add value to it as a standalone business," Patullo said.
In addition to MyWorld, a platform for creating social games announced earlier this summer, Realtime Worlds will continue to operate All Points Bulletin even as it looks to finish restructuring with an eye towards creating a company that can support the urban crime MMOFPS.
Reader Comments (7)
Posted: Aug 20th 2010 1:34PM dudes said
Tragic what happened. Hope the MyWorld thing takes off for them and is a success.
Posted: Aug 20th 2010 2:51PM jmerriex said
Good news! I'm happy for the folks that got their jobs back!
Posted: Aug 20th 2010 3:49PM Purkit said
Good to hear. Myworld seems like an interesting project.
Posted: Aug 20th 2010 4:04PM archipelagos said
Great to hear! Come on folks, you can make MyWorld work, get to it!
Posted: Aug 20th 2010 9:14PM (Unverified) said
APB > MyWorld
Posted: Aug 20th 2010 9:42PM (Unverified) said
Really happy for the guys who were rehired for MyWorld. I was very interested in the game after watching the trailer, so I'm glad to see it's back on the table for now (I hope).
As for APB, I just don't see how they can be successful with such a pricing model. This is the perfect type of game to use a F2P micro-transaction based system. Tons of customization, tons of options RTW could use to release onto a micro-transaction marketplace purchasable with RTW points. Fix some key issues, drop the pay-by-hour nonsense and I think APB will have new life breathed into it.
As for APB, I just don't see how they can be successful with such a pricing model. This is the perfect type of game to use a F2P micro-transaction based system. Tons of customization, tons of options RTW could use to release onto a micro-transaction marketplace purchasable with RTW points. Fix some key issues, drop the pay-by-hour nonsense and I think APB will have new life breathed into it.
Posted: Aug 22nd 2010 11:33PM (Unverified) said
Are these the same people that Activison was going to pick up?
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