Comments on: Flagship At Half-Mast But Still Afloat

By: Dreamhacker

Dreamhacker — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:10:17 +0000

We need to have a poll!

Q: Is Flagship “really” still running?

alt 1: Yes, they are dead
alt 2: No, they’re not alive

By: James Egan

James Egan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:07:17 +0000

HG: L has/had some good aspects to it. The quest and character dialogues were extremely cheesy, but the game itself was (is?) great for the occasional: drop-in, summon various minions, slaughter demon hordes. Good, clean fun, and the graphics (albeit glitchy at times) are nice. Personally I never subbed, and am now glad I didn’t pony up for the Founders Offer (lifetime sub). It’s not happening, but were HG: L to end up at SOE, it might be that little extra bit of incentive I’d need to get a Station Pass.

By: Phil H

Phil H — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:20:08 +0000

Yeah, we’re at that part of the movie where the main character is sailing midair over the cliff and you’re not sure whether or not they’re going to make it across, and its looking more and more like we’re in a Looney Toons episode than a Big Action Movie, not good.

For now, when I have the heart to play, I’m trying to finish up the bits of content that I haven’t quite gotten through, just for the satisfaction of having done them. And yes, I’m one of those poor souls known as Founders.

By: Nick Halme

Nick Halme — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:21:50 +0000

Argh. Hellgate was not a bad game; I enjoyed it much more than my time with Age of Conan. It just shouldn’t have tried to compete as an MMO.

By: amishmonster

amishmonster — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:36:25 +0000

The Mythos beta servers are still up, but we haven’t received any solid news on how long that’ll last (though we haven’t received any word that it WON’T last, either).

By: Xyzzy

Xyzzy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:23:22 +0000

But it is a shame that the whole Mythos team has been laid off as of now, including Travis (the project leader).

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:56:33 +0000

So what’s happening to Mythos? I was really looking forward to that game.

By: amishmonster

amishmonster — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:39:23 +0000

Yeah, if anyone out there looking to acquire Mythos, they’d be stupid not to. The game’s shaping up to be great, and the RMT/microtransaction model that they’d been working towards has legs, I think.

As for the management acting selfishly – did you miss the part where Roper and Schaefer paid their employees’ a month’s extra salary, out-of-pocket? They may have made some bad decisions along the way but that doesn’t mean they’re bad people.

Also, in some posts on the Mythos boards, the dev team made it sound like there was at least a hope of re-forming the team in the near-ish future.

By: KindredPhantom

KindredPhantom — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:13:38 +0000

They will have greater success with a free2play model, even one where you can buy cool weapons with real money ala Maplestory. (yes i forgot what the system is called)

By: Noc

Noc — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:10:20 +0000

Myros: By which you mean . . . looks like the captains are trying not to go down with the sinking Flagship? Eh? Eh?

…

I think I’m done.

By: Myros

Myros — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:53:54 +0000

Im tempted to follow along with the herd here and say something witty and cutting towards Flagship … but tbh Im sorry to see any PC centric dev studio run into problems these days.

By: Heartless_

Heartless_ — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:52:09 +0000

Someone call Sony Online Entertainment, another set of has-been online games are ready for purchase!