APB developer Realtime Worlds entering administration

Sucks to hear, I love Crack Down. Good luck guys! Skills for Kills Agent!

But I have so much fun playing APB, it's a game that sort of rewards patience.

Looks like it'll need that zombie expansion to get out of its grave

Another UK dev on deaths door, thanks ruined economy. Who to blame? UK government scraps tax relief and mire jobs are lossed, who have thought it eh?

Honestly I am not surprised, both APB and Crackdown 2 are alright but with so many other great games out there to play its easy to over look these games.

Knew this would happen when I first played the beta. Sucks for these guys, but APB had no business being released...

It was fun for a little while, but I didn't even use up my 50 hours.

This doesn't come as much of a surprise. They poured so much time, effort and money into APB and it ended up not being very good. Apparently the Realtime Worlds management and leadership isn't terribly great, which can't have helped.

Somebody else pointed out that every company Dave Jones and Iain Hetherington have run or been involved with has gone to the wall. This seems to be no exception :(

Looks like this story is wrapping up how many predicted it would.

I thought it was official that they were gone completely now, with everyone fired.

MMOs really seem to burn these companies, don't they?

What did they really expect?

The game double/triple dipped the consumer
You bought the game
you paid a monthly subscription
and it had micro-transactions

It wasn't a true MMO that required a monthly service fee. Even if it was then there shouldn't have been real world micro-transactions if you pay for the monthly sub. If you do have the transactions then make the game free to play. Not all 3 at once.. that's an insane price structure.

that's not even taking into consideration the complete lack of story line or structure. Numerous exploits and poor level design. Lack of multiple locations since you're restricted to 2 action areas. The ballistics engine if any was absolutely horrid, there wasn't enough of a difference between guns to make them worth while. The driving physics was like from a cartoon. The game should still be in beta to this day, plain and simple.

It's no surprise that the game is failing. I purchased an extra month only to play it with my cousin since he liked it somewhat. LOL I say good riddance to a terrible game.

Realtime Worlds published 1.4.1 of APB today to the Test World.
Combat (shooting mechanics), Matchmaking, Driving, other stuff and finally there's some new content too. All improved based on the feedback received from the players and the largest GAMEPLAY CHANGING PATCH to date. APB needs your feedback, play on the Test World then shout for Live World. This is what you asked for.

A full feature set is available here - http://eu.apb.com/en/news/2010/08/13/apb-1-4-1-is-on-its-way

If you want this on the Live World, e-mail support@apb.com, write to APB/RTW on Facebook or if you think you know other ways, shout.