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I hope HGL doesn't fail

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{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-07-11 05:06:29
July 11 2008 05:06 GMT
#1
So there is this game called Hellgate:London made by the popular developers who left Blizzard to form their own game company. A whole lot of the gaming community was hyped up due to the Diablo type of game play being mixed in with FPS style combat. Well we all know what happened when it was released, total bomb.

On the first night of launch the servers as well as the website crashed for about Eight hours. And it just seemed to go downhill from there. Negative reviews, bugs upon bugs that made the game unplayable and crash. Players being billed multiple times, pretty much pissed off players everywhere.

But FSS patched the game constantly which fixed some things but also introduced more bugs. The game since then has been out for some eight months I think and has already had new content introduced, Stonehenge. But the player base it seems to be pretty much nonexistent at this point.

Well tonight I was bored and was just randomly webs surfing when I went to the HGL forums and went into the Test Center discussion and tried to read the longest patch notes I have ever seen for any game. It is 2.0 which has apparently been on the Test Center for about a month and half now, I think.

Maybe this patch will get rave reviews and many more players will come back and subscribe giving the company a big boost to help them. Because in my opinion independent game studios are the companies that keep making better games.

Patch 2.0 Notes, which has already gone through 4 builds.
http://forums.hellgatelondon.com/showthread.php?t=100789

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Elite00fm
Profile Joined January 2008
United States548 Posts
July 11 2008 05:36 GMT
#2
This is how the game should have been when it was released
FR4CT4L
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Australia697 Posts
July 11 2008 07:27 GMT
#3
When a company says "yes we screwed up, but here is how we intend to fix it" followed by a godly change log.

Reinstalling HGL and giving em a second chance.
Veni, vidi, vici!
poilord
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Germany3252 Posts
July 11 2008 13:00 GMT
#4
will most likely be too late though
Goosey
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States695 Posts
July 11 2008 15:20 GMT
#5
On July 11 2008 22:00 poilord wrote:
will most likely be too late though


This. Bioware gave a very good presentation at AGDC07 about how an MMO company only gets one launch. If you have to push back release date, do it. If you have to hire a second team do it. Do everything in your power to make the launch as flawless as possible, because the player base never will forgive you otherwise.

That said, maybe I will check out HGL now.. I am more in the buisness of playing MMOs a year after they launch anyway, when all the kinks are worked out.
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