Shortly followed by Realtime Worlds itself no doubt, after their $100 million investment has proved such a spectacular flop.

Some very interesting blog posts from a RTW staffer as he tries to make some sense of the disaster-

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

And some goodbyes.

Biggest disaster in MMO history.

Even Matrix Online lasted longer.

APB Who?

Not surprised. It didn't do anything to make itself different.

Not unusual. Sudden change in either direction can be disastrous. Theres a lot of tales of people winning Millions of dollars on the lottery. Only to find that they go broke and bankrupt. There are different responsibilities and culture between the two.  RTW didn't consider the responsibilities of having to finance and manage. It's a pitty when it happens.

To be fair, it mainly distinguished itself by being shite.

Epic might pick this game up?

http://kotaku.com/5640623/gears-of-war-studio-to-buy-failed-mmo

APB came out? It would've helped if they advertised it more...and if they didn't release it in July when the competion was StarCraft II.

sad i liked the dev, crackdown was great. too bad they did not dev crackdown 2 or make APB a game that was not a monthly pay mmo... i would have bought it then

It would have helped a lot more if it'd been any good.