Release Date, Payment Model

As per: http://apb.com/pre-order/

APB will be released in NA on June 29, EU on July 2.

A quick summary of all known information...

* Release Date: June 29th for North America, July 2nd for Europe.
* Price: £34.99/$49.99/€39.99
* Pre-order benefits: Exclusive content, early access, 60 hours of
action district gameplay, 100 RTW Points.
* On-going Cost:
It appears that action district time is limited, while
social district time is unlimited. You can purchase an additional 20 action
district hours for $6.99/£5.59/€6.29, or a thirty (30) day unlimited pass
for $9.99/£7.99/€8.99, with discounts for 90-day or 180-day purchases.
* RTW Points:
RTW points are going to be bartered with in the
marketplace in some form. RTW Points will be able to be converted into game
time or in-game cash.
* There's a new trailer for the pre-order bonuses.

Yes indeed. Thanks for adding that, Chainer - I was posting from class.

Action District Hours.

Hm.

interesting form of payments, I'll probably just stick to the 30 day unlimited plan like a normal MMO.

The twenty hours is nice IMO, depending on how much time one spends on the game and actually in the action district.

It's flexible which is nice, not seen before in any MMO I've looked at.

I like the model very much. I'll probably end up using the traditional 30-day model during the summer, but while away at school, I certainly don't see myself going through more than 20 hours per month in the action district.

Interesting, very interesting.

Through some things, I've noticed that a lot of people are complaining about it. But it seems their age-range is about 14-16. So hopefully this payment style will keep them out of the game

Thats a tad biased, seeing how a good friend of mine whos good at APB is 15.

People are smarter than that.

Just some can't fathom this non-traditional payment methods.

aka, ragefolk. which their age varies.

Don't forget the potential of playing for free =P,

if you're good with the designers, you can sell clothes and such for RTW points and convert it to free time in the Action districts. =D

Dario wrote:Don't forget the potential of playing for free =P,

if you're good with the designers, you can sell clothes and such for RTW points and convert it to free time in the Action districts. =D

This.

Thats exactly why dario is in my mafia.

Hes the cheapest man around. Which helps.

=3

I will be pre-ordering. It seems well worth it.

Thanks, Ricky... i think?

I've had it on pre-order for a while now, i'm going to miss playing it for free though >_<

So you're all aware, the 'Key to the City' event will begin on June 10th.

Thank you for letting us know.

I haven't had a chance to play in the last month or so did they ever fix the 32 bit OS problem with the low graphics even though its on high in the settings?

Not the last time I played, which was the end of May. (What I understand is that it was not a glitch, and is currently limited because they have huge memory leaks, and figure most people would flip out every time they run out of memory and the game crashes.)

Interesting, guess I may hold off a few months before I get this then, cause I cant stand playing that way

The client was under a forced limitations back in May. That has since been removed.

Some of the issues with the 32 bit OS were solve with the new NVidia Drivers that are custom for APB.

With the new unhindered engine, performance has improved all around.

Sadly because the Beta Boards are not longer up, I can't link for you the exact quote from the patch notes, but the PTW patch had a line specifically noting that low end res 32 bit systems should see improvement. Seeing as I don't have a system like that, I can't say for sure.

As of Monday, everything was running fine.

As always though, it remains to be seen... literally.

~SK.

Im going for the 10bucks for unlimited time a month. Not a big deal for me.

Okay, I'm stupidly not finding it on the main site. Does anyone know at what time the servers will be opened?

Was wondering this myself I will look in a sec, just finished messing around in GIMP with a Rain Dog's ferrari lol

There is a wide range of speculation and no confirmation. There are rumors from 10am EST to 10am RTW time and various options in between.

P.S.:

Nytewing wrote:...just finished messing around in GIMP with a Rain Dog's ferrari lol

For the life of me I could never figure out how to use that program... I have started contemplating spending the $650 for a full version of Photoshop.