Really? GamersFirst says it's excited to have Jones around to "share his vast game design experience during critical design stages of the ongoing development of APB Reloaded." That sounds good, we guess. Everybody deserves a second chance, right?
Really? GamersFirst says it's excited to have Jones around to "share his vast game design experience during critical design stages of the ongoing development of APB Reloaded." That sounds good, we guess. Everybody deserves a second chance, right?
Reader Comments (16)
Posted: May 14th 2011 3:29AM Dlord said
You know what they say: if it wasn't fun the first time, make it free.
Posted: May 14th 2011 3:31AM mcnichoj said
Welp, so much for that.
Posted: May 14th 2011 3:38AM MarkcusD said
So they hired the guy who ran the company into the ground while making the first game. Makes perfect sense...
Posted: May 14th 2011 3:59AM DaveEllis said
They hired him on an advisory role. It's not like they are going to put him in charge of development or finances is it?
It's worth having the man who brought us Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings around, even if it is only for input.
It's worth having the man who brought us Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings around, even if it is only for input.
Posted: May 14th 2011 4:03AM onan said
It makes sense, in a way. The guy you should trust to get you out of a hole logically should be the one who dug it in the first place. David Jones is their personal Chilean miner.
Oddly appropriate considering I don't think there's much else he can do for them at this point except sit around in his underwear and wait for the rescue project to be over.
Oddly appropriate considering I don't think there's much else he can do for them at this point except sit around in his underwear and wait for the rescue project to be over.
Posted: May 14th 2011 4:28AM Dukk420 said
Wow, why all the hate for this guy? His record speaks for itself, and in my opinion one flop and several classics isn't a bad record! Besides, there were a lot more people working at Realtime Worlds besides him. He came up with the idea for APB, and in my opinion the idea was great, it was the execution that didn't work! smh...people are so quick to judge!!! :-)
Posted: May 14th 2011 4:47AM Decanus said
@Dukk420 yeah i wouldn't have thought he would be in-charge of the finances, just the games direction which was all that bad might have done better if they sold it off as private server software so peeps could host their own servers as well but hindsight is always perfect.
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Posted: May 14th 2011 4:47AM Decanus said
@Dukk420 yeah i wouldn't have thought he would be in-charge of the finances, just the games direction which wasnt all that bad might have done better if they sold it off as private server software so peeps could host their own servers as well but hindsight is always perfect.
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Posted: May 14th 2011 10:18AM xCameleonx said
@Dukk420 Agreed. Dave Jones' track record does speak for itself. Psygnosis, ran into the ground until bailed out by Sony. DMA Design, ran into the ground until bailed out by Take 2. RealTime Worlds, simply ran into the ground. I, as a developer, think that Dave Jones' day has passed and he should leave the industry before he has the chance to wreck anothet 250 developers careers.
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Posted: May 14th 2011 1:54PM Hunter141072 said
@xCameleonx
It´s funny how dave jones ALWAYS gets the credit for GTA and lemmings ando nobody remembers Mike Dailly who had more creative input on those games than dave, I think the only title that was 100% dave was menace, he had a lot of talented people around him and that helped DMA to be very successful, but by no means he was a one man army, and sometimes he gets more credit of what he deserves.....
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It´s funny how dave jones ALWAYS gets the credit for GTA and lemmings ando nobody remembers Mike Dailly who had more creative input on those games than dave, I think the only title that was 100% dave was menace, he had a lot of talented people around him and that helped DMA to be very successful, but by no means he was a one man army, and sometimes he gets more credit of what he deserves.....
Posted: May 14th 2011 5:00AM Acosta02 said
Sounds like Davy Jones's Locked on to this game.
Posted: May 14th 2011 6:17AM Faenix said
Knowing "someone else" was making your game what it should of been must of hurt
Ill try it day one and see how it is.
Ill try it day one and see how it is.
Posted: May 14th 2011 11:54AM (Unverified) said
@Faenix
You do know that the word "have" exists?
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You do know that the word "have" exists?
Posted: May 14th 2011 6:32AM archipelagos said
This is just depressing and yet, not at all surprising in the slightest.
Posted: May 15th 2011 3:12PM heyImWyatt said
It is good to see that this game will be free to download and free to play.
