Heh, blast from the FPS past... ;>

1. I liked Hellgate(:London) a lot, for its gaming concept: Diablo-like game-setting but an FPS gameplay-style. But sadly, the execution and management of the game was terrible. :(

- a. Tons of gameplay bugs ~ Many bugs of which were never fixed; there were bugs from opening day that never got fixed right up to the day the game was finally shut down.

- b. Mind-boggling scheduling ~ Server maintenance shut-downs and update-patching(s) on Saturdays and Sundays. Seriously, what online-multiplayer game shuts itself down on Saturdays and Sundays...?!?

- c. Idiotic subscription & DLCs ~ Players had to pay for each DLC, minor &/or major content in addition to subscription(s); whether F2Play, regular subscribers, &/or even Lifetimer subscribers {Thank the gods I was just a regular subber, not a Lifetimer sub.}. Additionally some idiot at Flagship Studios had it set so regular subscriptions would charge you every 30 days, so people would get charged twice a month. Apparently they were unaware that there were 31-day months during the year...
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2. Do not get me wrong, I wanted to like HG:Ld {The game appealed to the Diablo-fan in me.}, but the Cons overwhelmingly outweighed the Pros. :(

3. Though now I do wonder, what would HG:Ld be like with today's level of technology to work with. Perhaps a reboot is in order? ;)

Thanks for uploading this, Keksimus1234. :)

Last edited on 05 March 2019, 21:37.

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@H-Knight. EA would produce it, BioWare would create it. Nothing would change, except more microtransactions. Then, it would frag your whole system the second you breathed wrong.

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Look up London 2038. It's a revival (again, apparently) of Hellgate. You have to own a copy of the original Hellgate to play it though, which is on sale on Steam for like 10 USD.

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