Having played beta from the beginning and a few months at the start I am sad to see the game end. The concept and the novelty of the game was truly great, it just did not get the attention it needed. I know I leveled two seperate characters to end game in very little time, as with many games it failed to deliver to a broad audience at that point, this was very much a live fast die young sort of game.
I played it in beta as well. Reminded me strongly of the ol' PS1 game Twisted Metal. Like others have said it was fun in small doses but I just couldn't get into it for more than an hour at a time.
Plus rather poor advertising didn't help either, not enough people noticed the game to want to give it a try. Only EA's botched marketing of Earth & Beyond was worse.
I have no opinion on whether they killed AA for TR, I will leave that to the conspiracy theorists to hash out. NCSoft certainately could of supported AA and TR, unless there was some internal issues they didn't make public. Again, I will leave that to all you conspiracy types.
AA was the last CE that I bought prior to RIFT. The game had been such a blast during the beta, I thought a bunch of the pseudo Car Wars folks would give it a try; but when it launched, the servers were so freaking empty.
Remember when Statesman made the announcement that they were developing a Car Wars-like game in Austin, I began to drool at that point...
...bad advertising, too many servers, not given a chance at all.
Painful memories, painful memories of it closing down.
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
I bought this game, but didn't install it right away because I was trying to finish up some other things first. Then I got the wonderful news that I missed any opportunity. Too bad there wasn't the incentive to switch struggling games to FTP back then. *sigh*
All of my posts are either intelligent, thought provoking, funny, satirical, sarcastic or intentionally disrespectful. Take your pick.
I get banned in the forums for games I love, so lets see if I do better in the forums for games I hate.
I enjoy the serenity of not caring what your opinion is.
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Having played beta from the beginning and a few months at the start I am sad to see the game end. The concept and the novelty of the game was truly great, it just did not get the attention it needed. I know I leveled two seperate characters to end game in very little time, as with many games it failed to deliver to a broad audience at that point, this was very much a live fast die young sort of game.
I played it in beta as well. Reminded me strongly of the ol' PS1 game Twisted Metal. Like others have said it was fun in small doses but I just couldn't get into it for more than an hour at a time.
Plus rather poor advertising didn't help either, not enough people noticed the game to want to give it a try. Only EA's botched marketing of Earth & Beyond was worse.
I have no opinion on whether they killed AA for TR, I will leave that to the conspiracy theorists to hash out. NCSoft certainately could of supported AA and TR, unless there was some internal issues they didn't make public. Again, I will leave that to all you conspiracy types.
R.I.P. AA
What a necro - Sep 2007.
AA was the last CE that I bought prior to RIFT. The game had been such a blast during the beta, I thought a bunch of the pseudo Car Wars folks would give it a try; but when it launched, the servers were so freaking empty.
Remember when Statesman made the announcement that they were developing a Car Wars-like game in Austin, I began to drool at that point...
...bad advertising, too many servers, not given a chance at all.
Painful memories, painful memories of it closing down.
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
Explorer: 87%, Killer: 67%, Achiever: 27%, Socializer: 20%
I bought this game, but didn't install it right away because I was trying to finish up some other things first. Then I got the wonderful news that I missed any opportunity. Too bad there wasn't the incentive to switch struggling games to FTP back then. *sigh*
All of my posts are either intelligent, thought provoking, funny, satirical, sarcastic or intentionally disrespectful. Take your pick.
I get banned in the forums for games I love, so lets see if I do better in the forums for games I hate.
I enjoy the serenity of not caring what your opinion is.
I don't hate much, but I hate Apple© with a passion. If Steve Jobs was alive, I would punch him in the face.
I came in here incredibly sad thinking I could've been playing this whole time. Glad to see it was a necro.