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FSS Senior Developer speaks out 2008-06-05 16:12:08 Not sure how we missed this before….but its very newsworthy. Heads up to Phil for finding it…he would have posted it but I think the heats getting to him. Anyway….Guy Somberg audio and gameplay programmer and self proclaimed senior developer on Hellgate writes in his blog about how Hellgate is a”not a huge [...]
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Hellgate Developer Blog Now Open 2008-06-07 04:37:32 Alright, another form of communication between the players and developers of Hellgate has been created… The Developer
Blog!
Well done FSS! First entry was made today, by Bogustus, The Flagship Studios Director of Technocracy, by providing a rundown of what he did at work, this past Friday, Dev Blog: Bogustus. Worth reading for the insight [...]
Hellgate Patch 2.0 Now Available On The Test Center 2008-06-10 06:08:58 Yesterday the much talked about 2.0 patch for Hellgate: London, The Abyss Chronicles, was made available for play on the Test Center
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[edit: Looks like the patch has problems, so it goes, patch possibly up on the test center sometime today]
While the patch notes contain no mention of infinite dungeons, more details are provided about [...]
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Damage control on aisle 4, damage control on aisle 4 2008-06-11 13:03:06 Kotaku has posted an interview of the damage control behind Guy Somberg’s blog post. Apparently Kotaku, on entirely noble intentions, proclaimed they were going to “see what was really going on.” A few highlights of the article:
We first heard back from Flagship’s marketing communications manager, web manager and writer Ivan Sulic, who said while he [...]
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Bill Roper apologizes to Korean Hellgaters 2008-06-10 15:34:47 Full story here
Hmm, funny how the Korean
Hellgaters get an apology from problems with in-game mail (looks like 1.3 borked things up for everyone) and down time, yet SEA Hellgaters continue to get the cold shoulder, especially since the main excuse behind ignoring SEA is that Flagship Studios has no correlation to the patching being [...]
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Mythos Guru Interviews Max Schaefer About Mythos 2008-06-12 15:45:08 MythosGuru.com today posted an interview conducted between them and Max Schaefer, COO of Flagship Studios (FSS), where they discussed many of the new features and direction of FSS’s second game, Mythos.
Much talk, in the interview, is made about the non-necessary but game play (time) extending features such as houses, pets, mounts, end-game goals and yes [...]
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Looks Like Bad News for Hellgate Players in Japan, Singapore and Germany 2008-06-13 21:02:17 From a post made on The Something Awful Forums, by a user of the name JosephStalin, brought to our attention by a Flagshipped.com regular Andrea (thanks yet again!), what appears to be bad news for players in certain countries in the way of localization and response is coming.
According to the poster, who works for Online [...]
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The Best of Flagshipped.com Hellgate London Fan Art 2008-06-15 04:10:33 While the following fan art isn’t new to this site, being already available in the gallery and forum, they’ve only received a few thousand views. For the many who have overlooked these gems, enjoy…
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Left created by Keffy. Center created by Iozeph. Right created by Noobicum.
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In-game mail purge leaves some players short on their luck 2008-06-18 20:11:13 After announcing that a mail purge was on the way for the server maintenance, a number of players stepped into the forum to express their troubles with items not being able to be unattached if they were mailed back to them automatically. At first the word was that Flagship Studios would look into the situation [...]
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Communication is a difficult subject. 2008-07-04 12:11:35 After a user by the name of Angelstandings2008 posted a chart representing the amount of communication Flagship employees have put out in the forums, it did not take long for people to try and shut down the purpose of the thread or say that it was a bad idea. However, MattN took the time to [...] Read more:subject
H Bomb Has Been Successfully Dropped on Japan 2008-06-29 06:43:02 According to reports, the recently released, zoned for Japan
, version of Hellgate: London is being very well received. Having achieved first place on Amazon Japan’s PC Game List based on sales. Now whether top placement on JP Amazon was due to lack of physical boxes being readily available at launch or the advertising campaign for [...] Read more:Dropped
Hellgate release rushed due to insider info? 2008-06-28 12:05:15 This is purely speculation but it makes sense….Did Roper and Co. know that Diablo 3 was going to be announced soon? Was Hellgate London released early to try to make some money before the long awaited D3 came to take over? We’re sure some of the guys with FSS still maintain friendships will people that [...]
“Thanks For Noticing Us” –Flagshipped.com 2008-06-28 03:21:16 After seeing the subject of speculation related to the amount of readers Flagshipped.com receives being recently discussed, along with comments from the fan boy peanut gallery about declining visitors . . . here’s some numbers.
Flagshipped.com has received 34,509 unique visitors since January 21, 2008.
For the month of June an average of 451 unique visitors stopped [...] Read more:Thanks
“Hellgate: London now has more than 1 million active subscribers” 2008-06-25 12:54:31 Microsoft VP John Schappert has released an open letter to all PC gamers talking about “growth and opportunities in PC gaming.” The letter goes on to talk about the “PC gaming renaissance” and how XNA Game Studio is the future and blah, blah, blah, blah, buy a Games for Windows title, blah, blah, blah, blah, [...] Read more:million
Hellgatelondon.com Alexa rating at an all-time low 2008-06-25 05:57:18 Hellgatelondon.com’s rating over at Alexa
has dropped in its daily reach to an all-time low, almost reaching the ratings when the site was first launched to public viewing. I wonder why this is? Don’t you, folks? There’s a new build of patch 2.0 on the test servers; we’re now up to Build 3! There should [...]
Hellgate forums are going down 2008-07-17 21:25:11 Link.
On Friday, July 18th at 11:59PM (CST) the forums will be shutting down. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of this wonderful community and we hope to see you all again soon.
-Tiggs
Well I guess that would explain why people have been reporting their temp bans have turned into perma [...]
Strap yourselves in boys and girls… 2008-07-17 00:17:12 HGG has picked up on an article from thisisgame.com, a Korean news site. I’ll just let it do the talking.
Bill Roper and Directors of Flagship Studios Bear Responsibility
- HanbitSoft making good progress in securing intellectual property rights for Hellgate: London
- HanbitSoft is preparing for a lawsuit against Bill Roper and the founding directors of Flagship [...] Read more:Strap
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The boat is still afloat 2008-07-15 20:21:37 Well, after four days of the silent treatment, we finally have an official response:
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Flagship Studios Still in Operations
San Francisco, CA (July 14, 2008) — Flagship Studios has announced today that despite rumors to the contrary, the company is still operating.
“It is with deep regret that I must announce that Flagship Studios has [...]
Flagship has been flagshipped? 2008-07-11 14:43:33 Well things have been hitting the fan quite a bit today. It all started from a news post from TheGames.co.kr, followed by HellgateGuru making a news post about the news. Here was the original story from HellgateGuru:
“In breaking news, Korean news website TheGames.co.kr reports that HanbitSoft is taking full control over the Hellgate: London intellectual [...] Read more:Flagship
Time to make things more confusing! 2008-07-31 13:13:37 Nearing three weeks of no concrete information of what’s really going on with Flagship Studios and Hellgate, we are currently on a new flux of assumptions and suspicions. First, the Ping0 staff all trade their Ping0 icons and Ping0 affiliation for Namco Bandai, which led to further speculation that Namco was taking over. Still not [...] Read more:things
Spin Doctor: And I thought we were good 2008-07-25 03:00:20 I know a lot of things have been blown out of proportion in the past two weeks, but I think the current “Namco is going to/has acquired the IP rights to Hellgate” really takes the cake. Even IGN has jumped on the bandwagon, going as far to say that the Namco Bandai representative, Zack Karlsson, [...] Read more:Doctor
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One Month Later, How Well is Hellgate: London Selling in Japan? 2008-07-22 03:22:44 A month ago, Flagship Studios issued an announcement that the recently made available for purchase (zoned for Japan
) version of Hellgate: London was the number one selling PC Game in Japan. This according to Amazon.co.jp’s weekly continent sale reporting. This achievement was met with great cries of fanboy joy.
One month later, the achievement of being [...] Read more:Month
“News will be coming soon” 2008-07-21 16:43:40 By the way, did I quote that correctly, Ivan? Send me your complaints via E-Mail if I didn’t.
Anyways, Tiggs has posted another bit of information regarding the current upheaval everyone is in about the state of the game. Here’s a link to her post in the lolcat spam thread.
“Since word spreads fast around here and [...]
Pissing away the money….and time 2008-07-21 16:24:30 Add this to the list of poor money and time management HGL received. It turns about according to a post by FSS10 they were actually were starting to develop HGL for the Xbox 360.
I‘m not joking this time.
There was a semi-working version running on a Xbox 360. Run, jump, shoot, monsters, etc. Sure it [...]
Bon voyage Mythos; Hellgate is now only a fathom away 2008-07-19 02:06:31 Mythos servers (and forums) are now officially down. Again, you guys know as much as we do about the final word on everything. Keep us posted if anyone changes their mind at the last minute.
“Travelers of Uld,
We, the ancient elders of Uld are issuing this warning to all citizens and travelers. Hurry! The great darkness [...]
Forums are not going down tonight 2008-07-19 00:08:00 Well it looks like Tiggs has changed her mind. The Hellgate forums are not coming down tonight. No word why. No word on anything else either. The Mythos servers won’t be coming down for another two hours, however. Let us know if anyone else would like to change their mind about anything else regarding Flagship [...] Read more:Forums
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RIP Mythos: Mythos Beta Going on “Hiatus” 2008-07-18 16:23:23 From a post made by the former community manager Tiggs, on the Official Mythos Forum, word has been given that the Diablo Clone know as Mythos will shutting down today at 11:59 PM CST.
Mythos Beta Going
on Hiatus
Bonus Link: Mythos Farewells and Well Wishes Message Thread
“Mythos was not the reason Flagship laid everyone [...]
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