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  1. On 8/2/2022 at 7:38 PM, MACKxBOLAN said:

    thats not a bot, its a retired player from way back in the day. I know him He was Cool, i believe he had to give up his account to get the job. So um, Leave Him be 

    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.


  2. 7 hours ago, glaciers said:

    i think you have a very strange definition of lucrative

    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.


  3. 6 hours ago, MrChan said:

    They could've implemented a persistent territory control map with the same effort and it would've been better.

    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.

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  4. 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.


  5. On 6/28/2022 at 5:41 PM, ZoriaDunne said:

    Half a year with 0 news, why did they even bother making this roadmap?

    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.

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  6. 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.


  7. 21 hours ago, a Pair of Socks said:

    My only two questions are;
    1.)How is LO affording to keep APB up as it currently is?
    2.)How much longer will they be able to financially be able to keep APB servers up before doing what G1 did?
    I really dont want to see APB die but I also understand that this game, as it is right now, aint worth the continuous loss of money keeping it """"alive"""" 

    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).

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  8. On 3/1/2022 at 3:15 PM, BlatMan said:

    - You can combine it with medspray,

    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.

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