Codemasters denies picking up APB

by Jef Reahard on Nov 7th 2010 3:00PM

MMO Industry, News Items, All Points Bulletin, Crime, MMOFPS

If you were holding out hope that the defunct urban crime MMO All Points Bulletin would be resurrected courtesy of the folks at Codemasters, Eurogamer has a little bit of cold water to throw on your fire. David Solari, Codemasters Online general manager, minces no words in a recent interview.

"We have not picked up APB, I can answer you definitively," he said.

Rumors circulated that the publisher might be picking up the pieces of the shuttered MMO, left scattered by the closing of Realtime Worlds, when former RTW community manager Ben Bateman updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect his new job at Codemasters. Epic Games has also been rumored as a potential salvager, and Solari says that someone will inevitably pick up APB's assets, if only for the innovative tech. "If they don't pick up the game then they will pick up the technology for sure, because the avatar and character customisation technology is incredible. Something will definitely be done to preserve that," he muses.

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Reader Comments (22)

i played all through the beta and then on live and what REALLY killed it is not any of the reasons mentioned here.

the fact is that alot of us initial testers left because they just couldnt control the cheating, the "aimbots" out there where very very advanced and didnt only offer aimbotting so its really not right to call em that.

and rtw was unable to stop it, they couldnt do a damn thing about it, all they did was have us record with fraps and send an email with the allegded cheater name + vid

thats not really acceptable for a fps mmo so alot of people simply got tired and stopped playing

thats why it started dying so fast and early on and no other reason, sure it wasnt perfect but most of the things you could live with. CHEATS however have a VERY large impact on a fps mmo and it really takes away the whole point. they should have been on top of the situation right away but they almost turned a blindeye to the issue

ive been arguing myself with the devs in testing where the developement of the aimbots started, but it seemed like they lacked the knowhow to stop it

in the end the cheating was so widespread it was silly, and the things you could do with the bots was incredible, you could change basicly everything. and that was a death sentence for the game

if ANYONE think it was because car controls/car hp (wich could be upgraded to get the car like a fuckin tank btw) or any other lame reason you are wrong, really wrong

if you dont believe me try and dig around a lil about apb cheating, its hard to find any complaints as official posts where SHOT DOWN by the devs to pretend everythign was ok (dont wanna scare new customers do we), but there plenty out there still

That's probably a relief - MMOs are likely better off being closed down than being run by Codemasters and being slowly killed - the only thing worse than that would be if GOA decided to buy it :p

I do hope APB gets another lease of life with a new owner though - I liked the concept but not the execution - with a couple of years worth of polishing it might have been worth playing.

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