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Post Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 7:40 am   
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All Points Bulletin (APB)
http://www.360-hq.com/xbox360/games/All_Points_Bulletin/2/

APB, the crime-themed MMO from Crackdown developer Realtime Worlds, is launching on PC in Europe and the US early July. But it will not be launching in Australia in early July. Why?

Electronic Arts signed up APB as part of its EA Partners program. This means Realtime Worlds is essentially the developer and publisher of the game, while EA is handling boxed product distribution to retail around the world.

EA told Kotaku that they will not be releasing APB in Australia.

The reason is local servers. Or rather, the lack of them.

APB isn’t your standard MMO. It plays more like a shooter. To make the game playable, players need a ping to the nearest server that is lower than needed by other MMOs. And that means a server based in Australia is essential.

But Realtime Worlds has no plans to host a server for APB in Australia. We don’t know why, but we can only assume they believe it isn’t worth the investment. As such, EA can’t release the game in this country.

Australian gamers willing to risk it could still import a copy from overseas, setup a US account with a US credit card, and try joining a US server. But you probably won’t have a very enjoyable time of it.

I’m curious to know if any of you were able to access the APB beta that ran from late last year. If you were, what was your experience like? How playable was the game in beta form?

News-Source: www.kotatku.com.au



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Post Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:04 am   
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Hobbs that game looks awesome...

I hate censorship... It is not game that make people violent plus all games have a rate for a reason...

What about movies, isnt SAW a must censure movie?

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Post Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:31 pm   
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This has nothing to do with censorship. The topic here is the fact that realtime worlds doesn't think Australia is worth the time of installing a server system there.

I haven't actually heard of this game until now, but it looks very cool. Maybe one of these days when I need a new MMO I'll look into buying this game.

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dartht33bagger wrote:
This has nothing to do with censorship. The topic here is the fact that realtime worlds doesn't think Australia is worth the time of installing a server system there.

I haven't actually heard of this game until now, but it looks very cool. Maybe one of these days when I need a new MMO I'll look into buying this game.


So this time has nothing to do with violence... better then

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Post Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:43 am   
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After looking at all the screens and new videos coming out about APB i am so jealous of all you guys once again.. hahah.. bastards.. I could probably import sure, but then i got to deal with lag and nothing but..

I hope it's good then they will bring out no#2 hopefully in oz.

till then i guess i better keep watching the vids.

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