[Eraser55]

"NOTICE: Today NCsoft is announcing that it will be closing down service for Auto Assault at the end of the summer. The service will close at midnight on August 31, 2007. As of today, any player currently in the service with an active billed account will not be billed again. If players have previously purchased time via multi-month billing or time cards that extends their service past July 31, NCsoft will reconcile these accounts appropriately. There will be more announcements coming soon regarding the shut down of Auto Assault and its impact on current accounts. Please check back at Auto Assault."


well well.. any1 playing this?

[Johnny_Prime]

Not me! It's always sad to see a game close, though. A community is always lost.

JP

[Radi]

Wow. That was quick. Only one year.

[Pyrophred]

how sad... I didnt see much hope for the game to begin with though. It was a hard sell from the beginning

[Jump]

Well, NetDevil got paid and I'm sure they did a great job on the code and the game. The concept and control of the game belongs to it's publisher and so does the responsibility for it's demise.

[vorlon31]

I only played for a few hours and never 'connected' with the game. Now, lets go invade their forums and advertise Jumpgate Classic and Jumpgate Evolution

[Eraser55]

I always wanted to try.. but at first my comp wasn't good enough.. then when i got new one, i downloaded it for free trial and the file was corrupted so I gave up.

you see how easily people give up... Maybe i would enjoyed the game, who knows..

[Powo]

Wow... I'm surprised that the mmo was short lived.

Tell NetDevil to give the former paying AA players a free 30 day trial for Jumpgate.

[GrimGriz]

You have to be careful with using Jumpgate Classic like that. Apparently it was a big turnoff to a lot of folks. You don't want to scare the folks that will love Jumpgate Evolution off if they're the same type of folks that couldn't deal with the learning cure of Jumpgate Classic.

[Powo]

That is what I forgot to mention.

[TexMurphy]

People have said over years that ND dont care about Jumpgate.

NCSoft shutting down a game after just one year that (I assume) in fact does have a player base (at least over 1000) is not caring about a game.

A publisher like NCSoft is always gonna look at margin of profit for a game as soon as it drops below a certain point (still makin money though) then they are gonna axe it. The GM resources and the tech staff and the development cost for a update arnt worth it if the profit margin isnt high enough (or if the player base isnt enormous).

A game that isnt a success within the first year isnt gonna be a hit in its second or third year running.

Tex

EDIT: Funny though that Jumpgate will outlive AA.... interesting how things work out sometimes....

[Eraser55]

Originally Posted by TexMurphy

EDIT: Funny though that Jumpgate will outlive AA.... interesting how things work out sometimes....

I guess its something to do with Space theme.. Space themes always survive longer then other type of themes. Just look at Tv-series...

[Johnny_Prime]

I was at Staples this weekend, and saw copies of AA still on the rack. I told the staff that they may want to check on if they still should be selling the game. Can you imagine buying a game and finding out that it was no longer online?

JP