{"id":12500,"date":"2010-09-17T12:03:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T11:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-end-of-an-era-for-apb\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:10:21","slug":"the-end-of-an-era-for-apb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-end-of-an-era-for-apb\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of an Era for APB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game developer Real Time Worlds has gone into administration, taking with it short-lived MMO, <a title=\"RTW announcement\" href=\"http:\/\/eu.apb.com\/en\/news\/announcements\/2010\/09\/16\/end-of-an-era\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>APB: All Points Bulletin<\/strong><\/a>. The game never really had a chance &#8211; after five long years of development, it was released a mere two months ago. Real Time Worlds went bankrupt shortly after, and from that point on, APB&#8217;s future looked pretty bleak. Although Real Time Worlds reportedly tried to sell the game to another developer, they haven&#8217;t had any luck. The international gaming community had high hopes for APB, but ultimately it never had the commercial success needed to make it the backbone of the business &#8211; or to attract a buyer when things went south.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/09\/final1.png\" alt=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Times of crisis and recession are never a good time to launch a new business, but I have a feeling something else was at play in the APB saga. Despite that fact that other MMOs like <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/css\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CounterStrike,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quakelive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quake<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battlefieldbadcompany2.com\/agegate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Battlefield<\/a> are hugely popular, APB didn&#8217;t have the same pull. It&#8217;s possible that although Grand Theft Auto, the game that inspired APB, is a major hit, there is just <strong>no demand for an online version<\/strong>. Add this to the fact that APB critics argued that the game&#8217;s missions would bore a player to death &#8211; not to mention <strong>a whole host of bugs<\/strong> that would drive anyone crazy &#8211;\u00a0 it just wasn&#8217;t good enough to hit the big time.<\/p>\n<p>If you <em>are<\/em> one of the few people who played the game and are feeling a little bereft, never fear. There are loads of MMO alternatives and, if I dare say it, they&#8217;re way better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game developer Real Time Worlds has gone into administration, taking with it short-lived MMO, APB: All Points Bulletin. The game never really had a chance &#8211; after five long years of development, it was released a mere two months ago. Real Time Worlds went bankrupt shortly after, and from that point on, APB&#8217;s future looked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-end-of-an-era-for-apb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The End of an Era for APB&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334738,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500\/revisions\/334738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12500"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12500"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12500"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}