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Yes, it's horrible

12 (20.7%)

yes, it's bad

5 (8.6%)

Undecided

4 (6.9%)

no, it's fucking great

4 (6.9%)

Never played it

33 (56.9%)

Total Members Voted: 58

[Soulwynd]

I bet they go Free to Play with Item Shop.  It's the only method that can compete with WoW.

They don't have to compete with WoW. All they gotta do is have a profit. Like pretty much every MMO you can pick from right now.

[Saint]

So either I am lieing or didn't play the game.
Even though I have 8 hours of playing under my belt, I can even screen shot it if you want to see.
Seriously, the game blows, it was another over hyped piece of crap.
Maybe if they tried to actualy develope a game and not a hyped shitty GTA clone they would have a game.

[Soulwynd]

So either I am lieing or didn't play the game.
Even though I have 8 hours of playing under my belt, I can even screen shot it if you want to see.
Seriously, the game blows, it was another over hyped piece of crap.
Maybe if they tried to actualy develope a game and not a hyped shitty GTA clone they would have a game.

I have around 100 hours. I'm saying a lot of the things you said are wrong, most likely because you also played against newbies and didn't have time to find them out.

Not contesting that as of right now, it is bad. Because it is.

[fenrif]

So apparently, since the general buzz about the beta has been pretty negative the APB team decided to impose a press emargo on reviews. No reviews are allowed to be posted untill a full week after release.

They're trying to tell gaming journalists they can't go and by a copy of the game, and write a review of it that day.

Madness...

[Jay]

For the record, I didn't write that review, nor have I even played the game.
That was direct copypasta from another forum that I frequent.  The guy there was basing it off his own experience and that of most of the userbase of that forum...  Not so sure he's wrong, but whatever.  I never planned on getting this game, and I most certainly have not changed my mind.

[inteuniso]

It's a decidedly meh game. Also, there was a thread for this. Use the search button.

I loved the customization aspect, but there is a serious lack of weapon balance, and with the lag, driving sucks.

There are a few powerhouse weapons that are great, and the rest they don't hold a candle to. Combine that with slotted weapons, and you have a qq-fest like never before.

[Farce]

Bought for the editor...

And the issue I was having with just starting the thing I had when I was trying the beta hasn't been fixed.  It still downloads to 99.9% and then fails when I start the launcher manually (despite having already downloaded it via Steam), and Steam just gives me the "allow APB" Windows prompt, and then nothing happens ever.

So I lost $50 on something that refuses to work for me.

 

And Steam apparently tracks those failed startups, so now it's mocking me with "last played today".

[Grendus]

Called it.

There are some genres that don't mix well. FPS and MMO just don't work well together, every time an FPS plays online it's either a match based system or co-op (or both). And I can't think of any off the top of my head that tried to price like an MMO.

Besides, APB missed the market by about half a decade at least. The GTA clone wave has come and gone.

[Soulwynd]

Sure they do. APB would have been perfect, if it wasn't for the stupid mechanics they tried to push in. It was simply badly thought on a programming/performance point of view.

All the coolness aspect of APB makes me really wish for it to get better in 6 months or a year, so I can go play it.

[Neonivek]

I tried it, I didn't like it.

My Bro tried it, he hated it even more then I did.

The flaws are rather glaring when you play it, while the possitives tend to be bogged down.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

I wish Planetside hadn't been owned by SOE.  It's still a really great game in some ways, but SOE seems determined to ruin everything they touch.

[janekk]

I was lucky enough (actually it had nothing to do with luck, they selected especially helpful beta testers ) to be invited to public test world so I can pretty much play this game for free BUT I don't. Its just too boring, too repetitive, bug riddled, poorly balanced piece of carp. Sure customization options are nice but that's all this game has to offer. I'll check it in year or so, well if APB will still be around by that time.

[Soulwynd]

Same thing here, Janekk. It they had taken a mix of guild wars + TF2 approach, they could have done a much better game, in my opinion.

The bright side of the game, the customization, the music, the voip, all becomes meaningless when the gameplay is so crappy.

[Farce]

I really don't even care about the gameplay, I just want to mess with the editors.  I loev character editors, and APB's looks so sweet.

But the game just won't let me have them.  Dammit dammit dammit.  Nothing works ever.


It seems that even their login servers are down right now or something (clicking login on the forum gives me page-not-found; switching to EU login server gives me page-not-found), so I can't even ask them for help.  It's as if I've been conned, mugged, and then given a huge serving of delicious [whatever] and having it slapped out of my hands and stomped on when I try to take a bite.

[janekk]

The bright side of the game, the customization, the music, the voip, all becomes meaningless when the gameplay is so crappy.

No way voip is broken as hell. When I got into beta I bought headset for APB because ingame voicechat is so convenient but it almost never worked for me, sometimes it did but for few seconds, minutes so it wasn't reliable. I ended up not using it at all. I tried to set vent server for my clan but I have dynamic IP so it was too much pain in the buttocks. I had to type in everything anyway.

As for customization I have one negative thing to say: why can't I mirror sides?? It would be so much easier to do cars. Otherwise it is really good. Though its very boring to see that [insert large number] black nazi or other stupid, stupid immature thing.