Hexerin

Yes, I'm aware of who Ritual is. I've been here since the beginning of CBT, I've been aware of (and/or associated with) basically everyone over the years. That doesn't change my curiosity. When scaling back to a skeleton crew for maintenance mode (which is where APB is now), one of the first things you get rid of is the community-facing employees and volunteers. They no longer serve an actual purpose, because the game is intentionally stagnated, so there's no longer any purpose to keeping a finger on the pulse of the community.

I wonder if this bot is programmed to make responses.

It costs basically nothing to keep a game online in maintenance mode. Meanwhile, the new players that keep joining will spend money on ARMAS, where everything is egregiously overpriced. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see how what little skeleton crew is left at G1/LO will be continuing to turn a profit on this.

Plus, you know, RTW kinda up and died before they could finish the game.

Probably. Say what you want about the Ruskies, but they actually gave a shit and developed the game.

Reminder that this game has the perfect foundation for clan territory (city block) control, with mission-based warfare to try and take more blocks or protect those you already have.

Imagine still not knowing in 2022, that RIOT was literally the reason for LO to """buy""" the game (read: just another K2 rebranding). They just wanted to make a quick buck on the BR hype train, but failed to produce something that was functional on even the most basic level. Failing that, they switched right back into "milk the plebs" mode, albeit with some better PR smoke and mirrors this time.

It's almost like they were doomed before they started, because they chose to dev the game on an unstable alpha of a game engine. One would assume anyone who were to make an APB clone in modern day would not be an absolute bunch of brainlets like that.

There's nothing stopping anyone from creating an APB clone with a different aesthetic.

It tricks the simple minded into thinking there's actually active development / progress, thus causing them to spend money on ARMAS. It's a predatory, unethical, immoral, and just plain disgusting marketing tactic.

It amazes me that there are still enough people dumb enough to be spending money on the cash shop of a dead and abandoned game, to justify this ongoing maintenance mode. Then again, the world is in the state it's currently in because of people like them... so I guess it's not really surprising.

Same old shit, different brand.

They never will, either.

1) New players trying out the game, and then spending on ARMAS when they hit that initial high the game gives before they realize how hopeless it all is now. Yes, there are new players hopping into the game on a daily basis, despite what chucklefucks on the forum try to make believe otherwise. 2) Indefinitely. It costs next to nothing to keep a game going on maintenance mode, especially one with a playerbase as tiny as APB's. The only way APB shuts down from here is if MattScott chooses to shut it down, which he likely never will because it still makes him money (which he desperately needs after being clapped with those lost lawsuits).

Change consumables to mods with a cooldown, like they should've been in the first place.

Change consumables to mods with a cooldown, like they should've been in the first place.

Change consumables to mods with a cooldown, like they should've been in the first place.

80-100ms is the standard for any remotely decent online competitive shooter.

You can do the same with Flak (or just running without a green mod), and the results still dust Kevlar. Kevlar is a meme mod, it's actually useless in real gameplay. Always has been, although it wasn't as bad before they introduced the movement penalties to it.

Ya'll have nobody to blame but yourselves for that one.

Forever living rent-free in your head.

Change consumables to mods with a cooldown, like they should've been in the first place.

Brace yourself, that group is coming to tear you a new asshole for daring to suggest that particular quality of life improvement.

I'll take "He doesn't know how elo systems work" for 500, Alex.

Golds bring it on themselves. There's more than enough of them to fill multiple districts to capacity, they just refuse to hop in unless it's a bronze district.