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Flagship Studios Going Under

Posted by kdawson on from the davy-jones-i-presume dept.

Lunatrik writes "In a not entirely unexpected turn of events, Flagship Studios, the producers of the bug-ridden (at release!) game Hellgate: London is going under, as reported by multiple sources. In addition, many current subscribers to the game are finding themselves unable to cancel their subscriptions due to 'technical errors.'"

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  1. A Good Thing by Naelok · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is not really surprising. I was in the game's beta and there was really nothing memorable about the thing. Just Diablo 2 in 3d with a ridiculous modern setting and crummy level design (if you've seen one office building full of demons, believe me... you've seen them all). I'm glad to see that that sort of mediocrity hasn't been rewarded.

    1. Re:A Good Thing by BJH · · Score: 4, Interesting

      The beta pretty much sucked, but the game's been in good shape since the Stonehenge expansion came out.
      A lot of people were looking forward to the 2.0 patch release, so I hope whatever deal Flagship works out covers it...

  2. Fuck EA by BJH · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1) Find a promising unreleased property
    2) Get your fingers in the pie via the back door by working a deal with one of the existing publishers
    3) Force an early release to get the cash from package sales
    4) PROFIT!
    5) Refuse to bail out the developers when they're swamped with bug reports
    6) Walk away laughing with money in your pocket

    Looks like WAR is their next target...

  3. Sounds like a job for Captain Chargeback... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Nice clusterfuck you got goin' there. Be a pity if the rats all filed chargebacks before they left the ship..."