Monday, November 12, 2007

Good article from Kotaku about Hellgate Asia's wipe

Article from Kotatku entitled "Asian Hellgate: London Servers To Get Wiped"

The best bits are the comments. Here are a few:
"Wow, that's terrible. I had such high hopes for this game until they finally released some gameplay videos. From that point I knew it would be a stinker. My friend has a 5000$ pc and he can't even play it because it's so buggy.

Now a full server wipe? Bad form...bad, bad, bad."

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"Hellgate is pretty addictive, but I have to admit it's been plagued with more bugs and issues than most MMOs."
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"These guys come from Blizzard, kings of the "...when it's done" mantra. I don't remember ever played any Blizzard game that had any catastrophic bugs like this, even right out the door.

I wish they would have gave this a little more dev time. It should have never made it's Halloween debut. If anything, this has just ruined the Flagship name in a lot of people's eyes."
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"i bought hellgate for my new pc. i can't even play it, the memory leak on load crashes my computer. Even after shutting the game down, it takes a tow on my pc. I recently finished cod4 on my pc(all high) and handle crysis med/high, yet i cant do hellgate.

Not only that, my items have been disappearing from my character. I could only wish for a refund that could never be granted. Diablo creator's sold the title, but w/o Blizzard, they're hopeless. Btw, nice tech support, no gm's and office is only up on weekdays."

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"Look, this isn't Flagship's fault. The players in Asia simply tried to move too quickly over the giant flaming pentagram tile in the chaos sanctuary--thereby causing the servers to hemorrhage real human blood and then collapse."

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