Is it going to be able to be played offline? Like the original single-player?

[Mondo Zappa]

I love Hellgate London and would love to know if you can still play it offline cause I travel quite a bit and I love playing it and those sound like two great tastes that'd taste great together.(:

[Len's]

lol , wow what a big innovation to put it on steam by cutting is major player base that is online .

[that's what she said]

Originally posted by Peanuttoaster:

lol , wow what a big innovation to put it on steam by cutting is major player base that is online .

The only reason why they are re-releasing it as SP game is because NO ONE PLAYED it online.
Global was dead.
So it's a good thing that they are making it available to play again for people who don't want MMO and just want to grind a bit and enjoy style and story.

It was available for years as free online game. No one cared. So stop pretending like multiplayer is important.

I'd liked some coop actually, but the game's multiplayer component was designed as MMO from a get go, so I don't think it's possible that easily.

[Hazmat]

Originally posted by Eisberg:

Originally posted by Peanuttoaster:

lol , wow what a big innovation to put it on steam by cutting is major player base that is online .

haha, seriously? It was shut down because hardly anybody was playing it online, even when it was free.

Because few people bought it at all to begin with

[Hazmat]

Originally posted by Eisberg:

Originally posted by Hazmatbrigade:

Because few people bought it at all to begin with

It was free to play for sometime and it still failed. Obvisiously there is no money in the MP for this game, but as a single player most likely there is.

The Korean bastardization which was very very poorly marketed was free to play, sure. That's on Hanbitsoft being incompetent with the game.

[Twistit]

Yeah the first was awesome loved the Multiplayer, then the rerelease FP was horrid =( Now no multiplayer...

[Jaywizzle]

If you want to play MP of the original 2007 game, head on over to London2038.com

[Hikari.ws]

Just a note. I remember how this game was hyped on the day. It wasn't like today with so many game creators promoting themselves after working on a huge softhouse and asking for money.

Blixx had died when Activizzard owned it, and the guys that worked on the great Blizzard games were mad because they were being forced to make awful games that years later we learned about. So almost everybody from Blizzard North left and joined on this company.

Hellgate would be the reborn of the good old Diablo., while Diablo III development was just being announced. Then the game came out... and the hype turned into pure frustration. Everybody complained how the game was bugged, unpolished, lacking content, or just boring.

It was pure failure ever since.

So, don't come now complaining there's no online. It failed when it was FREE. It was shut down because nobody cared or played it.

[FireFox]

It's being re-released with all the content from the Original game and the new content from Hellgate: Tokyo.

[FireFox]

Originally posted by Hikari.ws:

Just a note. I remember how this game was hyped on the day. It wasn't like today with so many game creators promoting themselves after working on a huge softhouse and asking for money.

Blixx had died when Activizzard owned it, and the guys that worked on the great Blizzard games were mad because they were being forced to make awful games that years later we learned about. So almost everybody from Blizzard North left and joined on this company.

Hellgate would be the reborn of the good old Diablo., while Diablo III development was just being announced. Then the game came out... and the hype turned into pure frustration. Everybody complained how the game was bugged, unpolished, lacking content, or just boring.

It was pure failure ever since.

So, don't come now complaining there's no online. It failed when it was FREE. It was shut down because nobody cared or played it.

Everyone at Flaghsip Studios went to Runic Games and made Torchlight II so no it wasn't a complete disaster. Flaghsip Studios failed because they tried to pay the publishing costs out-of-pocket. Flagship Studios was literally being run out of the home of the CEO Bill Roper at the time and they pretty much ran out of money.