Life after APB: Global Agenda woos displaced players with special offer

Over paying even MORE money on the game's original price.

A deal is a deal, no?

I think what we are all missing here is a chronically ill MMO is welcoming players from a dying MMO.

Player base is always expanding and there is quite a good conversion rate from demo to full players.

I don't see the chronically ill comment fitting.

I never thought I'd say this:

I agree.

It's business, baby, business. That's all.

Two PvP centric online shooter games competing in the same market.

one of them goes down ... did you actually expect the other one to not tea bag the first one?

GA is just staying true to the genre.

Global Agenda has a free unlimited trial through Steam.

You can get to level 15, test out all the PvE, test out some of the PvP (meat of the action, super good PvP team based, and the maps are fun, pretty and some are HUGE), and you can test out every class in the trial... FOR FREEEEEE!

Sounding like an ambulance chaser who is desperate for any customers isn't good business.

lol

I have to strongly confirm this. I was in Alpha & (after some frustration, infrequently) in Beta. All the core advice taken was from quite young players, and their weekly in-house testers were all students from Alpharetta High School (a nice Atlanta suburb where they are located).

It's a great company and good game, and I bought it in a show of support, don't get me wrong. But, if they'd had listened more closely to some of us hard-core MMO PvP veterans more closely regarding the agency battles, they might not have launched with the structure or pricing scheme that they did....subsequently and significantly changing them to their detriment.

They chose their primary audience, and that's completely fine, but, as a businessman, I believe they focused too closely on a too-fickle, fad-focused audience that moves from "bright & shiny" shooter to "the latest thing" shooter. They're not Valve, and they can't afford to keep up with the substantial development money that Valve's thrown at TF2 (as essentially an extended market test).

If you want quick, jump-in jump-out online action for a very reasonable price, this is a really good game to check out. If you want persistent, meaningful PvP that generates stories you'll be talking about months to years later, skip it.

P.S. I think it's fine that they're respectfully offering an alternative to the APB players. It's not they'll have anything to log into in a few days.

I should add that I was also formerly a top COD2 CTF player...that's why I was in Alpha, i.e. no bias against either MMO or multiplayer shooter PvP.