Global Agenda wants APB "refugees"

By Robert Purchese Published 20 September, 2010

"We mourn our latest fallen colleague."

Global Agenda, the other shooter MMO, wants to hoover up APB "refugees" whose game was abruptly turned off last week.

In an open letter to "Shooter/MMO Fans", Global Agenda boss Todd Harris offered his sympathies before revealing an alluring 30 per cent discount for homeless genre fans.

"Today, we mourn our latest fallen colleague, APB," wrote Harris on the Global Agenda blog. "In making APB, Realtime Worlds had a bold vision to make an MMO devoid of traditional tab-targeting, cast bars, and die-roll combat. We honour their effort and innovation, and greatly mourn the game's closing.

"Sadly, the APB server shutdown leaves their entire community with nothing to shoot or blow up tonight! So between today and Friday, September 24, 2010, we are offering refugees from APB and other Shooter/MMOs an opportunity to join Global Agenda's growing community more easily and affordably than ever.

"We figure you deserve it," he added. "And you'll fit right in since you already know how to aim."

By entering the promotional code "LongLiveShooterMMOs", the price of the game drops to £13.12. There's no monthly fee, plus there's a free trial to test the waters with.

"We at Hi-Rez Studios believe strongly in the Shooter/MMO genre," Harris closed. "We celebrate and thank all developers advancing innovative Shooter/MMO concepts, as well as the fans that dedicate their time to playing and supporting these games."

Global Agenda was released at the beginning of 2010 and earned the same mark from Eurogamer as APB. Head over to Eurogamer's Global Agenda review for the full appraisal.

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About Robert Purchese

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Comments (9) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • NimbusTLD #1 2 years ago

    Oh. The news title made me think the dev wanted to hire the redundant RTW staff.

  • jebus #2 2 years ago

    Jesus - what a vulture.

  • tomjoadsghost #3 2 years ago

    I dunno, i kinda like the bit about already being able to aim.

  • Kremlik Verified Co-Founder, Crash To Desktop #4 2 years ago

    @jebus - not really, there is very few 'western' MMO shooters out there (most of them are actally just cashshop based fps games ala Guns or BF:Heroes), agreed GA isn't exactally heavy on the 'MMORPG' front, but between Planetside being 'dead', Auto Assult and TR shutting down a few years back, and now APB, and I don't know if you could class Fury or Spellborn as 'FPS' combat the MMOFPS crowd has really very little to go with

    As underhanded this tactic may seem Global Agenda is the only real option to go with atm, it's not like other compaines do the same, ie Blizzard releasing content/expantions just after a 'free 30 day' bit as been with another big MMO, at the end of the day thats how busness runs sadly
    Edited by Kremlik at 20/09/10 @ 09:24

  • iamian #5 2 years ago

    I don't see the problem. APB is closed so i't not like he's poaching people...

    and I thought the title meant they were offering jobs to dev's too. Shame.

  • Lord_Gremlin #6 2 years ago

    For some strange reason every time I try to read this article it reads "We want money!".

  • Freek #7 2 years ago

    I dunno if moving from one failed MMO to the next failed MMO is a smart career move.

  • ISmoke #8 2 years ago

    We mourn (celebrate) the fall of our colleagues (rivals) by giving you the offer to buy our game at a reduced price.

    So kind of you.

  • KDR_11k #9 2 years ago

    They added more MMORPG elements to GA with a recent patch, now there are open worlds to fight mobs in if that's your kind of thing. Of course you can still play the coop missions.