Hellgate: London to shut down

[Majestic_Clown]

"Namco Bandai has announced that it is set to shut down all the servers for the struggling MMO, Hellgate: London.

The publisher will continue to support the title and offer it for free until the end of January, after which the severs will be shut down.

"Namco Bandai Games America... will continue to support customers of PC game Hellgate: London with online server support and play through January 31, 2009 despite the closure of Flagship Studios," the company said in press release on the game's website ('http://www.hellgatelondon.com/').

"In a further gesture of support, Namco Bandai Games will provide this server support free of charge to all fans and players of the game up until the shut down date."

Earlier this year, Hellgate: London's developer, Flagship Studios, closed its doors ('http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/flagship-studios-closes-doors') with some of the staff going on to form Runic ('http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/flagship-seattle-reforms-as-runic-games')."

Source: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/hellgate-london-to-shut-down
OWNED!

[Tehtsuo]

lol, bad game is bad

[Redbeard]

This is sad.

The game had a LOT of potential.

Ah well, what can you do.

[mmcookies]

flagshipped

indeed, the game had a lot of potential
too bad it had crappy management and EA breathing down its back

[Tehtsuo]

EA Games: Challenge Everything (Then make it suck)

[Redbeard]

Yeah I was so excited when they opened Open Beta.. got in started playing... personally I really liked the game play.. what I didnt like is that it was too much FPS and not enough RPG you know? I remember a guy beat the beta (got to the max level) without changing gear, wtihout allocating any stat points, and without training any skills. That was just wrong.

And the quest NPCs / story line was just so damned hoaky.

I promptly cancelled my preorder.

[Leon]

Tis a Shame
I never got it myself but played it quite a bit on my cousins account, had thought about getting it but it was always Priced at +$80 everywhere i saw it, all the time

[Gurblash]

This was the LAST game that I bought due to hype... I bought the collectors edition of the game... played for about 2 weeks and went "WTF!"

Never again will I buy a game due to 'hype' Good Riddance I say... Good Riddance

[thinus]

I got it free with my graphics card. Walking around in a post-apolyptic London sounded cool, in reality the levels had a very similiar feel and similiar look, well, you had about 3 or 4 different types of levels but it soon grew very old. It was a straight Diablo clone. Extremely repetitive. I finished the solo campaign just for completions sake but I wasn't impressed.