They sent me an email begging me to beta test for them again and swearing they'd changed like a girlfriend that realized dumping stability for drug addled guitar players for bands nobody cares about is a really bad idea.
I laughed and deleted the email. Some things will never change. I'm confident that APB is a flat out flawed concept and needs to be completely re-made from scratch.
I guess i missed the point of the thread a bit. The original APB was a terribad clone of GTA where bad guys who are people played 5 missions over again fighting against good guys playing. The cars handled like the road was made out of melting ice cream, weapons were samey and irrelevant, missions would send you halfway across the city and by the time you got there with your ice cream jetski of a car it would already be over. Apparently character customization at character creation was great, however progression past character creation literally did not exist. You could dress yourself in some clothes with cash you got if your side accidentally won a mission while you were around.
All in all, lone independent programmers running off donations have created games infinitely better than this steaming pile of crap. There's a reason that the servers were shut down before the game had even sold out in stores.
Will APB: Reloaded polish a turd into gold? It's plausible, but so is Bill Nye the Science Guy kicking down my door and bringing me one of those giant plastic checks for 9 million dollars. Realistically, no. They probably did some work on the four wheeled ice cream jetskis or removed them, made a few more guns, and put some quickie rpg system in. They'll eke by on microtransactions until eventually shutting down again.
