HGL revivied

[KingOfPain]

Just got this email from incgamers.com

Hanbitsoft have taken a U-turn with the action RPG Hellgate London
and revealed the game will continue.

Hellgate London was set to close down at the end of this month with
Hanbitsoft pulling all online support. This evening Hanbitsoft issued
a statement announcing the game will continue with full server
support and future content updates.

Hanbitsoft are now citing the developers as Redbana US Studio
following the demise of Flagship Studios and they will be in charge
of developing future updates.

Focus will now be placed on "strengthening community features while
maintaining the speedy and thrilling action game elements"

A large patch is planned and HanbitSoft plans "to combine the two
game play modes, unifying the split two communities into one. Also
planned are class balance improvements and differentiation of each of
the 5 acts. Gamers who attended the conference applauded this
announcement".

Sensibly Hanbitsoft will be turning the game into a free to play
model. This will please many players who thought the game should
always have been based on a free to play model but may upset those
who paid for a lifetime 'Founders' subscription when the game was
originally released.

Time to check where I have left off...

KoP

[FoxBat]

Yes, Hellgate will be shutting down on February 1st, 12AM, as it has always been planned. However, Gamasutra caught wind of a Redbana US press release and decided that month’s-old news was new to them. Gamasutra’s insight offers that HanbitSoft will eventually start making updates to Hellgate. I’m sure in a few more months Gamasutra will also learn that HanbitSoft has already been doing so. What’s most interesting about Redbana US’s press release is that it says nothing about keeping up US/EU server support like Gamasutra has been leading on (and now Kotaku as well). Apparently everyone is still forgetting that Namco still owns the distribution rights of Hellgate in the US.

So will Hellgate servers shut down on February 1st still? Yes, they will. Will the game come back to the US later? Maybe, but maybe is all we have to actually go on.

http://www.flagshipped.com/