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APB Insider Details Realtime Worlds Woes

By james_fudge

A rather salacious "inside the sausage factory" news article at NowGamer, citing a source close to Real Time Worlds, paints a picture of the company now in bankruptcy in an extremely bad light. We contacted Real Time Worlds to get its side of the story, but they did not respond at the time of this writing.

The NowGamer news story taps an anonymous contractor who claims to have worked on "various aspects of APB's launch" with Real Time Worlds. The anonymous source claims that Real Time Worlds was losing millions of dollars a month, and that the amount of lies it told publishing partner EA was "unbelievable."

"I think there was a realization early on this year that the economic crash had finally hit the gaming world and this game that had taken 7+ years to develop and in excess of $100 million really wasn't that different than the other games being released," the source said.

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 26, 2010 (boomark / email).