{"id":7760,"date":"2010-09-15T22:09:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T05:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7760"},"modified":"2018-08-03T19:06:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T19:06:16","slug":"apb-locked-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/apb-locked-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Realtime Worlds APB MMO Locked Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9692\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9692\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9692 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/apb-cuffs-e1429246948846.jpg\" alt=\"APB has been shut down.\" width=\"390\" height=\"265\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">APB has been shut down.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SEPT. 15, 2010 \u2022 Only a month after Scotland-based developer Realtime Worlds went into administration \u2013 the British form of bankruptcy \u2013 its APB MMOG was shut down. The game had been live for less than three months.\u00a0 No buyers were found to acquire the MMOG.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Realtime Worlds and the APB MMOG show the risk associated with high end development.\u00a0 Over the past five years, Realtime had received at least $80 million in funding, the latest a $50 million round in 2008.\u00a0 Most of all that presumably went into development of APB.\u00a0 APB&#8217;s final epitaph is that there were 300 expressions of interest in acquiring the MMO, six of them serious. Of that number, none expressing interest believed they could make the APB viable from a business standpoint with only 130,000 active players remaining. Project MyWorld, Realtime Worlds other project, was acquired in early September by undisclosed investors.\u00a0 The fact that such an expensive product could be shut down after finally launching is simply a sign of the times.\u00a0 Putting $50 to $100 million into a high-end MMO is not enough.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEPT. 15, 2010 \u2022 Only a month after Scotland-based developer Realtime Worlds went into administration \u2013 the British form of bankruptcy \u2013 its APB MMOG was shut down. The game had been live for less than three months.\u00a0 No buyers were found to acquire the MMOG. Impact: Realtime Worlds and the APB MMOG show the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[313,78],"tags":[424,245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7760"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16765,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions\/16765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}