09/10 MAINTENANCE ANNOUNCEMENT

[MageLO 298]

Hello everybody,

 

Our standard weekly maintenance will be held this Wednesday (09/10) starting at 9 AM UTC. The game should be back up and running in 4 to 6 hours.

 

Thank you for your patience.

[EC2Jonathan 23]

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[Ardita 214]

14 hours ago, MageLO said:

Hello everybody,

 

Our standard weekly maintenance will be held this Wednesday (09/10) starting at 9 AM UTC. The game should be back up and running in 4 to 6 hours.

 

Thank you for your patience.

New contacts when?

[Victoria97 50]

4 hours ago, Ardita said:

New contacts when?

at this rate probably never -_- 

I assume they decided to wait out for Halloween event to make their big announcement. Sadly i had a lot of free time this august which wont be case for october and november. 

[Yapopal 204]

The popularity of the game has noticeably dropped recently. Perhaps this is due to the fact that developers are throwing dwarfs at the target in the office? The problems of the game are solved for a very long time, or they are not solved at all. Adding new content adds new challenges. The game is dying just like the Russian version of the game was dying. Exactly the same.

[ColorBauss 75]

More buffs to bad weapons! Better ARMAS+G1C purchase rewards! Max rank to 300! (eventually)

[Victoria97 50]

19 hours ago, Yapopal said:

The popularity of the game has noticeably dropped recently. Perhaps this is due to the fact that developers are throwing dwarfs at the target in the office? The problems of the game are solved for a very long time, or they are not solved at all. Adding new content adds new challenges. The game is dying just like the Russian version of the game was dying. Exactly the same.

The problem will be the same, after new content is added and grinded within week or two we ll go back to stalled nothingness. Solution is that new content in shape of new cars clothes weapons are added regularly every 3-4 months with more often events. Even if the event is not big it would still give motivation to people to come around and go by check what is new. 
The event can be simply 500 jts and maybe new title every 1st in every 3rd month. Anything really. 
This way we practically got only 3 events per year, Halloween, Xmas and Easter. And that is about it. 

Popularity of the game has noticeably dropped not recently but ever since february when APB was down for almost 1 month and when they added cross districts MM. 
Waiting half an hour for a mission just so you will get opposed against premade 4 golds, whilst your team mates are unfairly under capacity, makes you rq the mission and attempt to get 2nd mission which repeats itself and that ultimately makes you rq the game and simply move on to next game. 
Cross districts MM is ultimate last nail into the coffin of APB. Its time consuming, during wait all you can do is stare into the screen, the MM is still unfair with entire mission balance, you get three level 50 ranks against 4 rank 270 golds and that is happening non stop. 
At this time only more often new content and fix of MM can help the APB to maintain this 400 people. If this 400 people drop to <100 population I myself will stop bothering logging into APB and APB goes off my pc. 
 

[Yapopal 204]

5 hours ago, Victoria97 said:

The problem will be the same, after new content is added and grinded within week or two we ll go back to stalled nothingness. Solution is that new content in shape of new cars clothes weapons are added regularly every 3-4 months with more often events. Even if the event is not big it would still give motivation to people to come around and go by check what is new.
The event can be simply 500 jts and maybe new title every 1st in every 3rd month. Anything really.
This way we practically got only 3 events per year, Halloween, Xmas and Easter. And that is about it.

Popularity of the game has noticeably dropped not recently but ever since february when APB was down for almost 1 month and when they added cross districts MM.
Waiting half an hour for a mission just so you will get opposed against premade 4 golds, whilst your team mates are unfairly under capacity, makes you rq the mission and attempt to get 2nd mission which repeats itself and that ultimately makes you rq the game and simply move on to next game.
Cross districts MM is ultimate last nail into the coffin of APB. Its time consuming, during wait all you can do is stare into the screen, the MM is still unfair with entire mission balance, you get three level 50 ranks against 4 rank 270 golds and that is happening non stop.
At this time only more often new content and fix of MM can help the APB to maintain this 400 people. If this 400 people drop to <100 population I myself will stop bothering logging into APB and APB goes off my pc.
 

What do you think influences the players' interest in the game? New content? Not for ever.
The new content is a beautiful glowing invitation banner.
Newcomers come to this game thanks to a screaming banner about a unique customization system (which the developers have long given up on). The opportunity to express oneself through creativity, the opportunity to demonstrate this creativity to interested people is APB. Skirmishes, factional rivalry - all this is the background. I don't understand why developers put the background ahead of the main action. Perhaps a bunch of close "experts" can be blamed for this. The discussion on the number of rounds in the AP 45 and similar nonsense has been dragging on for years. 
APB is a very crappy online shooter. This worst part of the game has become the main one. An unoptimized, lagging piece of shit, the victory in which depends only on the degree of modification of the client, mouse settings and the conscience of the player. 
Developers openly support third-party applications that affect performance, and therefore advantage. This is the bottom of the swamp.

Twitch is a good advertising platform. What kind of ads do viewers see for the game? Developing a new fashion or car design (self-expression)? Team clan work (social component)? No! Viewers see another jumping idiot with potato graphics and Nokia 3310 phone screen resolution. This is the bottom of the bottom of the swamp!
New content, another anti-cheat will not keep players in a game where everything that can be broken has been broken. 
Adding a leaderboard and God forbid clan wars will destroy the game completely. It will begin with the harvest and end with self-devouring.