All Points Bulletin: GTA, the MMO

heh u make it sound even worst if u put it that way ender.

that is like the company telling the players i have no faith in the game earning more profit over time so i am ditching it soon so i can cash in on my profit now.

lol.

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/3722253#3722253

lol another good article read.turn out even their ex-staff think the marketing model kills the game and should have been f2p model or just b2p heh.

in a way its really important what model the company adopt for release i think.
like ffxiv will fare badly in the long run if it goes f2p.my view is p2p for ffxiv is the best suited model for it.and apb should have went f2p like gunz ^^

APB Has 130,000 Players
24 Aug 2010 at 11:53:18 by James Chalmers

The administrator team in-charge of financially troubled Dundee-based developer Realtime Worlds has revealed the third person shooter MMO APB has 130,000 registered players worldwide.

According to the figures the average player logs in four hours of game time a day amd spends on average $28 USD a month through subscription fees and marketplace trading.

Paul Dounis who is one of the joint administrators commented the numbers for APB “are healthy” and that they “reflect positively on APB as a ongoing concern.”

Mr Dounis added, “They prove this is a very enjoyable game, which is shown by the average player daily playtime and an ARPPU (Average Revenue per Paying User) that is highest of any game out there.”

Realtime Worlds entered administration last week however the company has promised to continue to support APB while it restructures and looks for potential buyers.

Labour politician Ed Balls and TIGA CEO Richard Wilson have both called for tax breaks in the UK video games industry so it can prevent things other businesses from financial ruin.

A look at 1.4.1








As many of you are aware we recently posted a list of features that
are scheduled to be included in the 1.4.1 patch on the EU forums.

This patch is currently destined for the EU PTW server and I wanted to take a moment to explain why this is the case.

Put simply it comes down to time. A this time our NA PTW isn''t ready
for players to test out of latest patches and we didn''t want to have to
push back the release of 1.4.1 while we waited for the NA PTW to get up
and running.

While it is unfortunate that you, our NA community will not have early
access to these quite frankly fantastic changes, it does mean that 1.4.1
will be hitting the live service sooner than it might otherwise had.

If you have yet to see the feature list in question then please find it below:


Combat and Gameplay has been updated!
Gameplay has been improved to produce a smooth, immersive, and skill-based combat.

• Vehicle handling has been improved.
  
• All weapons have been rebalanced and now include recoil.
  
• All weapons fire out to 100 meters.
  
• All weapon audio has been updated.
  
• Audio in marksmanship has been altered subtly.
  
• Crouch is now client-side predicted.
  
• Accuracy modifier on sprinting.
  
• Accuracy now regains over time rather than instantly.
  
• Weapons can be switched during the re-fire timer.
  
• Default mouse sensitivity is lower.
  
• Time for open world vehicle break-ins has been lowered from 10 to 3 seconds.
  
• Arrest and Rescue times have been lowered.
  
• Vehicle husks now block weapons fire.
  
• Field of view is now weapon specific.
  
• Hit VFX should now align with the direction of the weapons fire correctly.
  
• Upon purchasing a new weapon players are offered the option to auto-equip that item.
  

Matchmaking
Accepting missions and backup has now been replaced with a Ready/Not
Ready setting which anyone who plays online games will be fairly
familiar with. Each individual group member can toggle their status to
''Ready'' and when all players in the group are ''Ready'', the group as a
whole is considered eligible for a match. The matchmaking system will
then select a suitable mission/dispatch and automatically put the group
on that mission. At the end of the mission, all players return
automatically to ''Not Ready'' to allow time to re-supply, re-spawn cars
etc. The group can then set themselves back to ''Ready'' for their next
mission, allowing the group to set its own pace.

• Players can no longer deliver open -world items during missions.
  
• Players who are low threat and playing solo will receive no
  dispatches against them and will instead join the group who are being
  dispatched against opposition. The exception being that solo players
  can still be dispatched against when a bounty is placed on them.
  
• Bounty Missions are only generated as a result of witnessing by Enforcers
  
• Criminal vs. Criminal Matches have been disabled
  

Information

• The /Help command has been added. This will now display the full list of slash commands available to players.
  
• A new set of dynamic tooltips have been added to the loading screens
  in order to remind new and old players alike of some of APB''s more
  subtle features.
  

Mirroring Garage Decals
Players are now able to mirror decals on both sides of a vehicle.


Advanced Graphics Options
An advanced graphics menu has been added to the video settings page of
the options menu. This sub-menu features the following graphical
options:

• Dynamic Shadows
  
• Environment Shadows
  
• Ambient Occlusion
  
• High-Quality Bloom
  
• Distortion Value
  
• Anisotropy
  
• Anti Aliasing
  

VOIP Improvements
We have made further improvements to the in-game VOIP system in order to
address some of the issues players have been experiencing during play.
These include:

• An issue where players lost VoIP when district switching has now been resolved.
  
• PTT functionality has been improved.
  
• Various VOIP related crashes have been resolved.
  
• The accuracy of the VoIP status indicators has been improved.
  
• Player- controlled microphone sensitivity options have been added.
  

Improved HUD Messaging
We are reworking the way in which PvP kills are conveyed to the player.
This will supply players with valuable information as to what weapons
both opposing and friendly players are using, without the need to
manually enter the scoreboard.


New Content
We have introduced some fun new content for players to use in the form
of clothing items, clothing presets, vehicle kits, vehicle presets,
symbols, instrument packs and new songs. These additions comprise of the
following:

• Trilby hat
  
• Cowboy hat
  
• Beret hat
  
• 8 New preset outfits (one outfit per gender, per organization)
  
• Pet Vet Shop symbol set
  
• Zen Pack symbol set
  
• Funky Beasts symbol set
  
• 4 New vehicle body modding kits
  
• 4 New vehicle presets (one preset per organization)
  
• 4 New original songs created with the new instrument packs
  
• New original song composed and produced by the UK music producer ‘Nocturnal’
  
• Nocturnal Instrument Pack: Bees Synth, DrumKit, Drum/Lead,
  Orchestra, OrchestraHit (OrchHit), Rise Synth, Bass, Sub Bass, Synth
  Arp(Arpergiator), StacString (Staccato String)
  
• Wilson LeBoyce Instrument Pack: Guitar, Drum Kit, Organ, Bass, Clavinet
  
• Simon Tran Instrument Pack: Bass, DrumKit, Harp, Lead synth, Strings, Synth
  
• Double B InstrumentPack: DrumKit, Guitar, SFX, Synth_Bass, Synth_Lead
  
• Britney BloodRose InstrumentPack: DrumKit, Bass, Guitar, Strings
  

Dont even bother , the game jsut got worse LOL , The recoil is not yuo gun shaking but rather your whole PC screen SHAKING alot.

rofl.that sux then haha