Aeronaut Posted July 1, 2018 Posted July 1, 2018 will the price tag ever be announced? was it for a couple million? couple thousands? ...a bag of chips? ...did they pay YOU?
Aeronaut Posted July 1, 2018 Author Posted July 1, 2018 Just now, TrinityFSB said: Wat. when they bought g1. there had to be an exchange of something for apb to change hands. not that hard to understand.
Too_many_snowflakes Posted July 1, 2018 Posted July 1, 2018 Ah.... I though maybe you were asking how much is it costing them to upkeep the game. I'm guessing they got it for fairly cheap. (Somewhere in the tens of thousands)
Aeronaut Posted July 1, 2018 Author Posted July 1, 2018 8 minutes ago, BXNNXD said: 16 pretzels and an old beagle like a dog or the instrument?
vsb Posted July 1, 2018 Posted July 1, 2018 18 minutes ago, Aeronaut said: like a dog or the instrument? 1
Fr3e Posted July 2, 2018 Posted July 2, 2018 g1 prob had to pay LO to take the APB community into their hands lel
NotZombieBiscuit Posted July 2, 2018 Posted July 2, 2018 I have a feeling it went something like this.
SandyBitch Posted July 2, 2018 Posted July 2, 2018 Since APB wasnt G1's cup of tea, i assume it was a cup of salt in exchange
Doc Holliday Posted July 2, 2018 Posted July 2, 2018 Pretty sure the instrument is a bugle. not a beagle.
Aeronaut Posted July 2, 2018 Author Posted July 2, 2018 13 minutes ago, yaepes said: Clearly 3999 G1C LO hit em with a chargeback, the ultimate bamboozlement.
vsb Posted July 2, 2018 Posted July 2, 2018 12 minutes ago, Aeronaut said: LO hit em with a chargeback, the ultimate bamboozlement. i guess we can blame gayronaut for the removal of gifting
Deftonez Posted July 2, 2018 Posted July 2, 2018 4 hours ago, BXNNXD said: i guess we can blame gayronaut for the removal of gifting BigOof
Seedy Posted July 2, 2018 Posted July 2, 2018 (edited) would be very interesting to know what LO paid. I would think though that the monthly fees/costs for APB is probably not that far from the price they paid in total.. G1 got the IP for £500k if i remember correctly. they have surely milked that super dry and made a shit load more money than they paid so making a profit from APB, if purchased for very little would look like too much of an uphill struggle. I would say the community is priceless though Also I get that LO own the game servers we use, so they are not paying a rental fee. But they will still have to rent a space in a data centre. If you consider that you your self can rent a very decent gaming server for around £30 per month, how much do you think it costs to rent space in a datacentre for servers that have a concurrent user base of less than 3000 people? Now they I come to think of it, I dont get why APB doesn't have amazingly good servers if they are not super expensive to rent? Edited July 2, 2018 by Seedy
Salvick Posted July 2, 2018 Posted July 2, 2018 Game industry questions belongs to Game Industry forums...no wait. I'd like to think it is in the order of the 7 digits, it is a full package including two games, the portal and a bunch of stuff needed to run all that, and if everything goes well with the technical aspects of the game, as for how Matt managed to resuscitate this community and earn our loyalty back, the investment should totally worth it, no doubts. RTW investment to create APB was something around $70 to $100 millions and not sure because can't find the source but I think I've read that then Björn Book-Larsson bought it for less than 10 millions, maybe 7, but I can't remember right now.
SmokinPotat0 Posted July 2, 2018 Posted July 2, 2018 9 hours ago, TrinityFSB said: Ah.... I though maybe you were asking how much is it costing them to upkeep the game. I'm guessing they got it for fairly cheap. (Somewhere in the tens of thousands) Apb took like 25 million to make its up there with top expincive games like crackdown witch is just apb before apb
Seedy Posted July 2, 2018 Posted July 2, 2018 1 hour ago, Salvick said: Game industry questions belongs to Game Industry forums...no wait. I'd like to think it is in the order of the 7 digits, it is a full package including two games, the portal and a bunch of stuff needed to run all that, and if everything goes well with the technical aspects of the game, as for how Matt managed to resuscitate this community and earn our loyalty back, the investment should totally worth it, no doubts. RTW investment to create APB was something around $70 to $100 millions and not sure because can't find the source but I think I've read that then Björn Book-Larsson bought it for less than 10 millions, maybe 7, but I can't remember right now. 46 minutes ago, SmokinPotat0 said: Apb took like 25 million to make its up there with top expincive games like crackdown witch is just apb before apb APB took $100,000,000 to make (but im sure this also was spent on Project MyWorld by RTW). I was told face to face by a dev at RTW that G1 purchased the IP for APB for $500,000. I live pretty much 2 miles from the old RTW offices in Dundee. Used to go out drinking with the RTW devs and I was the wedding photographer for the lead Artist (who also told me before the game was announced as purchased who purchased it which I announced on my own APB Forums prior to G1s announcement back in 2010). The good old days (may return with LO) 1
Mitne Posted July 2, 2018 Posted July 2, 2018 I think around $100k-200k for APB but way more for whole company (G1) - probably around 1 mln $ and i'm not even joking. While game got bad reputation, it's still a lot of work of some people and usable piece of software. And company is trademark on it's own + all it's achievements.
vsb Posted July 2, 2018 Posted July 2, 2018 6 hours ago, Seedy said: would be very interesting to know what LO paid. I would think though that the monthly fees/costs for APB is probably not that far from the price they paid in total.. G1 got the IP for £500k if i remember correctly. they have surely milked that super dry and made a shit load more money than they paid so making a profit from APB, if purchased for very little would look like too much of an uphill struggle. I would say the community is priceless though Also I get that LO own the game servers we use, so they are not paying a rental fee. But they will still have to rent a space in a data centre. If you consider that you your self can rent a very decent gaming server for around £30 per month, how much do you think it costs to rent space in a datacentre for servers that have a concurrent user base of less than 3000 people? Now they I come to think of it, I dont get why APB doesn't have amazingly good servers if they are not super expensive to rent? pretty sure the reported price at the time of the g1 purchase was 1.5m euros
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