If Blizzard is smart, and they are.. they'd try to draw in Flagship members to work ON Diablo 3. Both for PR reasons towards the fans/players and to include experience from these tallented individuals.
Why would they do that? The reason Blizzard disbanded Blizzard North in the first place is due to THEIR choice on Diablo 3, if they come back then they would probally remake Diablo 3 in their own version AGAIN, which is not bad in my opinion but is bad to Blizzard somehow
The people who are in Blizzard North is no longer at Blizzard currently. Some were there for a while but up to date, no one from disbanded Blizzard North currently exists there
It is possible that some of the guys from flagship studios move over to work with D3, im sure the blizz team currently working with d3 wouldnt have anything against it.
Lol, I already stated why Flagship won't join Blizzard: If Flagship AKA most of former Blizzard North joins Blizzard, they will make Diablo 3 into their own version, which is why they were disbanded in the first place. Nothing wrong with this to the fans but probally it will effect most if not all of Blizzard's franchises in a negative way
EA is pratically the Anti-Christ of the gaming industry....the games will be garunteed to be on teh shelves, but will insue total chaos. Plus I really doubt Flagship would want to make a second 'Hellfire'
EA did force them to release early, also the biggest flaw in HGL was forced private instances, I didn't like that at all because I never saw anyone unless it was in-town. I pretty much solo'd to max level.
Meh, didn't like the company anyways. Always trying to copy Diablo... Why couldn't they just come up with there own game ideas? Lazy? Quick buck? Well I bet they learned there lesson. Diablo 3 developement started before Hellgate: London ever existed. Yet hellgate:london was released a year ago. And Diablo 3 is still in developement. You can tell just by that they didnt put any thought into it. They just took abunch of Diablo stuff and tried to rehash it. Put it together and threw it out there.
Mythos is the same way but a lil more closer to the Diablo world and well even a lil funner. But yet again same thing as hellgate:london.
UM wtf??? lol, copy diabloe make there own idea for a game?, you fool they made Diablo and Diablo 2. they had a good idea for a game just buggered it up by trying to make it different from wows style of MMO.
Now that this has happened heres my idea, Blizzard rehire Bill Rouper and get him to fix what needs to be fixed in D3 gore gore and more gore that stays on the floor and doesnt vanish and fix the lighting effects, come on blizzard DO IT.
Also isnt it true that activison own blizzard now?, from my memory they make childish dumb down games under the age of 15 rating SIGH SIGH SIGH.??
UM wtf??? lol, copy diabloe make there own idea for a game?, you fool they made Diablo and Diablo 2. they had a good idea for a game just buggered it up by trying to make it different from wows style of MMO.
Now that this has happened heres my idea, Blizzard rehire Bill Rouper and get him to fix what needs to be fixed in D3 gore gore and more gore that stays on the floor and doesnt vanish and fix the lighting effects, come on blizzard DO IT.
Also isnt it true that activison own blizzard now?, from my memory they make childish dumb down games under the age of 15 rating SIGH SIGH SIGH.??
There are many things wrong there... But I am too tired to actually point them out now. Nice try though
No, sorry, I'm not saying that the entire article is false. I'm just saying he's a liar. I'm just much more inclined to believe one of the developers themselves. The man he's referring to have said none of the things he says he said in the article.
You are incorrect. Mr. Balbi had misinterpreted what Andrew said. Andrew said he heard from a source. Balbi thought Andrew was claiming to have had the conversation with Balbi himself. So he denied ever having a conversation with Andrew. Balbi never denied anything else but that.
I'm very sure Flagship is dead and gone. Otherwise they would've made an official statement saying that people are insane.
I think that's a logical conclusion. I think they're holding back on making any official statements until everything has been decided.
Yeah, so true. I feel that BlizzNorth would've done a much better job at preserving the flavour of the universe, since they were pretty much around from scratch. Just the fact that they wanted to make all-new classes instead of rehashing the old ones is good in my book.
I know that some like it, but I just can't swallow the sheer retardation of the 20-year-older Barbarian coming back with a beard, an axe, and 20 years of mental degeneration.
Haven't you ever heard the expression "Ignorance is Blizz"?
I think the barbarian was one of the least interesting of characters in the previous games. I would have liked to see the return of the Paladin, moreso than the Barbarian. That's just me though. I guess everyone has their own preference. I don't think that the old blizznorth would have "preserved the flavour" anymore than the current blizz employees.
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UM wtf??? lol, copy diabloe make there own idea for a game?, you fool they made Diablo and Diablo 2. they had a good idea for a game just buggered it up by trying to make it different from wows style of MMO.
Now that this has happened heres my idea, Blizzard rehire Bill Rouper and get him to fix what needs to be fixed in D3 gore gore and more gore that stays on the floor and doesnt vanish and fix the lighting effects, come on blizzard DO IT.
Also isnt it true that activison own blizzard now?, from my memory they make childish dumb down games under the age of 15 rating SIGH SIGH SIGH.??
U AREZ like totalli stupid.
I'm not in the least bit disappointed in the position flagship is in. They produced a lousy glitch infested game with very little creativity. They have finally reaped what they sowed.
San Francisco, CA (July 14, 2008) -- Flagship Studios has announced today that despite rumors to the contrary, the company is still operating.
“It is with deep regret that I must announce that Flagship Studios has laid off most employees. However, the core management and founding team members are still at Flagship.” said Bill Roper, CEO of Flagship Studios. “The past five years have been an incredible experience for us, but unfortunately, we couldn’t sustain the size of the company any longer.”
Flagship Studios owns the rights to all its technology and IP, including Hellgate: London and Mythos. Due to the current situation, Flagship will not be taking any new subscribers for Hellgate: London, and all current subscriptions will not be billed.
Flagship wishes to extend their heartfelt thanks to those that have supported the company and games over the past five years.
I'm a bit sad Mythos won't be continuing development anytime soon, if ever.
Hellgateguru.com has picked up on an article from thisisgame.com, a Korean news site. I’ll just let it do the talking.
Bill Roper and Directors of Flagship Studios Bear Responsibility
- HanbitSoft making good progress in securing intellectual property rights for Hellgate: London
- HanbitSoft is preparing for a lawsuit against Bill Roper and the founding directors of Flagship Studios.
Last weekend, Flagship Studios announced that former employees were fired and HanbitSoft mentioned that all measures were proceeding as planned to the benefit of players (in Korea) to ensure that continued service of Hellgate: London would be seamless despite the current problems at its development studio. In addition, HanbitSoft holds the executives of Flagship Studios fully responsible for the incident towards the rights and interests of the users and stakeholders, including shareholders and other parties involved. HanbitSoft is considering taking strong legal action against Flagship Studios in order to take them to task for their responsibilities.
HanbitSoft does not expect to have any difficulty in securing the exclusive intellectual property rights related to Mythos.
HanbitSoft is prepared to deal with Comerica bank in a local visit to them next week in order to secure and acquire the intellectual property rights of Hellgate: London.
HanbitSoft believes that the game has nothing to do with the aforementioned bank as HanbitSoft already holds the rights to the game in Asia. HanbitSoft believes it has a strong possibility of acquiring the intellectual property of Hellgate: London in the United States and the rest of the world.
HanbitSoft stated that they will be devising a plan to continue work on the games with local (Korean) game developers in order to see the game through.
HanbitSoft’s CEO Kim Ki-Young stated, “Hellgate: London has a strong possibility of being ‘reborn’ into an excellent game with an outstanding product life,” he continued to say that “With more than 500 people at its disposal, both in-house and outsourced contracts who are veteran developers of every genre ranging from casual games to hardcore MMORPGs, we are ready to recreate Hellgate: London into an excellent game.”
He continued, “We don’t have to recruit existing developers, however if we could do so, we could shorten the time for analysis and developing for users. Although we are trying our best, since Flagship Studios doesn’t want to cooperate, we have no choice.”
According to HanbitSoft, they offered several methods and the means to keep Flagship alive in consideration of the users, but Flagship majorly lacked in effort. Hanbitsoft already has offered large amounts of investments but Flagship replied with ridiculous counter-offers and the negotiations went south. Even so, HanbitSoft continued to make investment offers which were all rejected, leading to the lay-offs of all of the Flagship employees.
HanbitSoft also stated, “Flagship not only lacked effort, but were only looking for personal gain. Firing all of the Flagship employees in order to protect the personal interests of its founding members only shows how selfish and irresponsible they are.”
Flagship Studios is an incorporated company. Hence if any problems occur within this company, it doesn’t affect the finances of any of Flagship Studios’ founders.
HanbitSoft said they are going to take legal proceedings as Flagship Studios is legally responsible for a serious breach of duty in not protecting their stockholder’s rights. The legal proceedings will be done against Flagship’s founders and management people for their intellectual property. HanbitSoft currently owns a 9.5% stake in Flagship Studios.
so what if Wayne Gretzky was "The Greatest", if he tried to play today, he wouldn't stand a chance
and that is exactly what happened to flagship
That analogy is completely off, irrelevant, and stupid. Waddlez you get an F for failure.
I really hope Hanbitsoft gains the IP rights to Flagship's game. An ideal situation would be for Hanbitsoft to use their local developers to rework HG:L as stated, and rehire the Mythos developers since they have the right idea going.
I'm really interested in how this will play out.
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Why would they do that? The reason Blizzard disbanded Blizzard North in the first place is due to THEIR choice on Diablo 3, if they come back then they would probally remake Diablo 3 in their own version AGAIN, which is not bad in my opinion but is bad to Blizzard somehow
Having de ja vu here...
ignorance is bliss. you should read up on things a bit more before spouting off about something you know nothing about.
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The people who are in Blizzard North is no longer at Blizzard currently. Some were there for a while but up to date, no one from disbanded Blizzard North currently exists there
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Lol, I already stated why Flagship won't join Blizzard: If Flagship AKA most of former Blizzard North joins Blizzard, they will make Diablo 3 into their own version, which is why they were disbanded in the first place. Nothing wrong with this to the fans but probally it will effect most if not all of Blizzard's franchises in a negative way
-XxL2PxX, New Generation Forum-Basher
Don't know about you, but I consider above 40% of Blizzard North employees as one organization as most. The other percentage is divided
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the game wasn't rushed.
they had more than enough time to make the game good.
they just didn't spend that time well.
as i posted before FSS with HGL had the longest development time and resources of any indie titie released last year.
CD Projekt Red Studio had much much less and they made a AAA game in The Witcher
UM wtf??? lol, copy diabloe make there own idea for a game?, you fool they made Diablo and Diablo 2. they had a good idea for a game just buggered it up by trying to make it different from wows style of MMO.
Now that this has happened heres my idea, Blizzard rehire Bill Rouper and get him to fix what needs to be fixed in D3
Also isnt it true that activison own blizzard now?, from my memory they make childish dumb down games under the age of 15 rating SIGH SIGH SIGH.??
There are many things wrong there... But I am too tired to actually point them out now. Nice try though
I think that's a logical conclusion. I think they're holding back on making any official statements until everything has been decided.
I think the barbarian was one of the least interesting of characters in the previous games. I would have liked to see the return of the Paladin, moreso than the Barbarian. That's just me though. I guess everyone has their own preference. I don't think that the old blizznorth would have "preserved the flavour" anymore than the current blizz employees.
U AREZ like totalli stupid.
I'm not in the least bit disappointed in the position flagship is in. They produced a lousy glitch infested game with very little creativity. They have finally reaped what they sowed.
I'm a bit sad Mythos won't be continuing development anytime soon, if ever.
Vote:
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17929
It seems Flagship is still operating with most of its staff laid off.
I'm not sure what this means for Mythos, but it looked like a really fun game.
I hope they continue developing it.
SO whatever your source. Its wrong.
Hellgateguru.com has picked up on an article from thisisgame.com, a Korean news site. I’ll just let it do the talking.
yet you don't delete petitionkiddies?
FLAGSHIP sucked, they were washed up...
so what if Wayne Gretzky was "The Greatest", if he tried to play today, he wouldn't stand a chance
and that is exactly what happened to flagship
That analogy is completely off, irrelevant, and stupid. Waddlez you get an F for failure.
I really hope Hanbitsoft gains the IP rights to Flagship's game. An ideal situation would be for Hanbitsoft to use their local developers to rework HG:L as stated, and rehire the Mythos developers since they have the right idea going.
I'm really interested in how this will play out.