APB Reloaded enjoying success via Steam, coming to store shelves

i didnt really like the game from what i played of it, but i wish them the best. any added diversity in the mmo sphere is good for everybody.

Steam can give games quite the turnaround.

If you place it on Steam, gamers will try it...and when you toss 3 million darts at a wall, there's a high chance quite a few will stick.

I never knew this was out on Steam, thanks Schramm. Might as well download EQ2 free through Steam as well.

I wish joystiq would review it. If anyone who has played the game enough to have formed an opinion feel free to post an impromptu review :)

I'm pleased to hear this game is doing well, especially after all it went through. I think $30 might be a little expensive though.

I haven't played much, but it seems like a quite well put together game.

I haven't played since the re-vamped beta, but what I played was still the same trash it was the first time it failed. I can't say whether its gotten better since then or not, but my experience was negative enough to not make me care.

The game is largely pointless. It attempts to capitalize on the best parts of GTA, but that only results in an incredibly shallow, one-dimensional game. If you want an online 3PS, there are better options than this pseudo-MMO. If you want to just run around and shoot stuff, which is basically all the game offers, there are still better options.

And its got a huge cash shop. While that's not necessarily a bad thing, and the game has to continue making money to keep servers up somehow, even though a lot of people will argue its not pay to win, to some degree any cash shop game always is.

I'd play it, but I have a Mac.

Awesome job Steam!

I wish it didnt freeze during driving/ shooting though :/

But I overly enjoyed the game enough to put 34 hours into it within a week.

Does it support controllers now?

Last time I played this it was impossible to drive around with mouse and keyboard. It's fine for walking and shooting, but you need analog controls to drive a car, IMO.

If they added controller support, I think a lot of people would give it a try again, but as of now it's not really playable. Nice concept though...

The game surprised me quite a bit. I'm not sure how much content there really is (I feel like you could dig into the game for a month and get your life's fill), but I have to give the developers some serious props for all the little detailed things.

The customization is insane. The character creation is some of the best I've seen. The decal editor lets you pretty much design whatever the hell you want with clothes, tats, and cars. The song/jingle editor is an actual tracker program. They really nailed the customization part out of the park, I would kill to see other games go this all out like that.

The game might be fun but the devs and customer support are trash.

I tried to play APB:R but I constantly kept on getting disconnected by PunkBuster (PB) with different notifications. First it was about updating a server then it was about my drivers. Then the final one was a ban. WTF!!! I only got to play the game for 5 mins, after character creator (an hour), before getting banned indefinitely from APB:R.

I notified their customer service only to get an e-mail calling me a cheater and "all current/future tickets will be closed and no further action will be taken on this account." That means after I tried to contact them again I just got the same email. So I looked up a developer and messaged him only to never get a response back. I know he read my message because their system notifies you when a message has been read. I went to Steam's forums only to be harassed more by another developer there. Just like the e-mail, he called me a cheater. He told me to contact PunkBuster if I wanted to dispute the ban. Wow! This felt like a call that keeps on transferring you over and over and they don't plan on really helping you.

I am extremely angered by this. I have never cheated on any game before with the exception of (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, b, a, select, start), but that was a long time ago. Seriously, I don't even buy strategy guides cause I consider that cheating. I play many games online and have never been banned from any of them. Why? Cause I don't have cheating software in my system. As a matter of fact, I'm an active player on TF2.

I'm just trying to let you guys know before you invest time and money that if you try the game be very careful what you have in your system or what you download in the future. PB checks your WHOLE system not just you game files and it does have false positives. Once you get banned that's it. APB:R will not want to hear from you again. As a matter of fact they have a wall of shame with everyone that got banned and the devs like to call them douche bags whether it was deserving or not. I still don't know what program got flagged as a cheating software since APB:R never told me and neither did PB.

I used to play APB:R (for 5 mins anyways) but then I took a falsely ban to the knee.

http://forums.gamersfirst.com/topic/227928-we-miiiiight-have-banned-hundreds-or-thousands/
http://forums.gamersfirst.com/topic/183759-weekly-hacker-name-and-shame/page__hl__shame