Flagship Studios - All Comments

"Flagship Studios" Speaks

hamor — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:47:13 GMT

This interview was one of the greatest I've seen. Real intelligence in both the questions and the answers. you can see that Bill's speaking from the heart.

T3 taking over Hellgate: London and Mythos?

ian_c_sully — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:13:28 GMT

I played HGL for about 2 weeks...and i have to say: its a diablo2 copy. nothing more. it felt like the same game to me (aside from obvious differences). There was even a "Decard Cain" type person in the game. if i wanted to play d2...i'd play d2, not a complete copy. i heard mythos was alright. i can see why their company nose dived into the ground after those 2 [epic fail] games.

T3 taking over Hellgate: London and Mythos?

souliisoul — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:13:27 GMT

glad people do not evaluate a game on just one opinion..lol

Flagship Studios is Still Operating, Barely

ciortas0 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:45:12 GMT

Anybody has any idea about why the heck, with such success of Hellgate: London, they had to lay off most employees?

Flagship Studios is Still Operating, Barely

Zyuu — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:45:11 GMT

Hellgate: London was not a success anywhere except for in Asia sadly.

Flagship Studios is Still Operating, Barely

SodiumNoir — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:45:10 GMT

Not surprising really, its an awful game. Very pretty but the gameplay seems to have ignored every trend and taste of modern gaming since around 1990. By including pretty much every flaw of the last two decades, game design wise, they sort of built their own gallows I feel.

Flagship Studios is Still Operating, Barely

BigBuddyWill — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:45:09 GMT

Yea Hellgate : London would of been a success if it didn't have the subscriptions base and now I know why they put it, cause they are close to closing.

Flagship Studios is Still Operating, Barely

Nightcaller — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:45:08 GMT

I imagine that few players are surprised by this, hellgate was decent for free until you got bored of it, but asking people to subscribe was a stretch, especially considering the fact that they did little fix the critical flaws in the game. You have to wonder if they expected this to happen when they made the founders offer on release.

Flagship Studios staff fired and company closing

Belaur — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:51:21 GMT

This makes me want to cry. This was a beautiful concept and pure quality attempt at gaming. But as the former employee said, aimed too high with too little time with too new a group. Given time, and patience this may well have rocked like it should have. I'm very sorry to see the self destruction of this group as its potential was massive. Sadly, potential doesn't carry the battle or save the day.

Flagship Studios staff fired and company closing

tony2077 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:51:20 GMT

*** i liked hellgate

Flagship Studios staff fired and company closing

Avangelon — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:51:19 GMT

Not true. Here's their official statement.
http://forums.hellgatelondon.com/showthread.php?t=101425

Flagship Studios staff fired and company closing

Have91 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:51:18 GMT

Blizzard was behind it /discuss (lol just messin)

Flagship Studios staff fired and company closing

punkmetalmage — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:51:17 GMT

When Blizzard announced Diablo III, I was a little confused because if I was blizzard I wouldn't attempt to make a sequel of a game who's "key people" left to start their own company. If anything, at this point Blizzard should at least make an attempt to gather back up some more resources for their development cycle of Diablo III, especially after they just joined Activision for financial reasons. Just my thoughts.

Flagship Studios staff fired and company closing

MurkinWaters — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:51:16 GMT

well, I am pretty sure that some of the hellgate people are already working on diablo 3. They said they made flagship not so they could completely leave blizzard, but so that they had their own company with no ties to previous obligations. (So they could make their own game how they wanted to.) Also, blizzard makes tons of money off of wow, so I don't think that they are hurting for money, and have plenty of freedom to hire and take the time to make their next great game (diablo 3).

Flagship Studios staff fired and company closing

Tombeater — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:51:15 GMT

wow that sucks. Hellgate was a very good game ( albeit easy but still.. ) and to see if go to the wayside is going to hurt. If HanBitSoft keeps it going that will be nice though