When it stopped taking applications last night, the new owner of APB, the cops-and-robbers MMO, said it had more than 100,000 requests to participate in the beta for APB: Reloaded, a free-to-play reboot.
Those who signed up for the subscription-based MMO, which collapsed three months after launch, were invited back to the game by new developer Reloaded Productions. It’s a subsidiary of GamersFirst, which bought APB from Realtime Worlds, the original developer who went bust last summer.
GamersFirst publishes free-to-play titles that have done well in Asia; APB: Reloaded will follow the same model, releasing in the first half of this year. Its closed beta should begin February 28.
APB: Reloaded Receives Over 100,000 Beta Registrations [Gamasutra]
doubleDizz
Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 4:54 PMI think this could do better than people think. I signed up for the beta about 6 weeks ago
Joe Mama
Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 7:36 PMIt’s shaping up to be immensely better than the original APB.
steve
Friday, February 18, 2011 at 12:32 PMWhy not tell us about it before the signups close..
I would have signed up. Oh well.