Talk:APB: All Points Bulletin

message: removed discussion about the game 80.192.61.220 00:47, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: why? 216.234.58.18 15:20, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: removed

message: IGN say for the PC it is out in Japan on 31st december 2007 and 2007 in USA but unreleased in Europe. Xbox360 dates are all 2008, anyone know anything there is so many rumors going on about this game and this article is so small and it shouldnt be.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrew22k (talk • contribs) 13:10, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: http://www.mcvuk.com/news/35129/APB-hits-retail-in-March Ne specific release date but it will be in March of 2010. And that article shps that it is being released for the 360 if any clarification was needed. UltimateSin01 (talk) 11:41, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Release Date

message: much of this article seems to have been lifted verbatim directly from http://www.apb-evolved.com. I'm also not sure if they are an appropriate reference site for information. Xenocidic (talk) 15:31, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I wrote the site's administrators about the content and received an email back from them "Thanks for the notice, as long as the information is given credit towards the site we are ok with it.". So I will work on ensuring the proper citations are given. I will also try to clean up the text to sound more encyclopaedic. Xenocidic (talk) 16:29, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is why the whole article looks like an ad... it is just the PR text from the game's web page.  I just saw the a talk on this game at GDC 2008, and the game looks lame.  This whole article was probably made by someone who's working on it.  YAWN.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Farktol (talk • contribs) 20:07, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: actually it was lifted from a fan site. the article definately needs a lot of work. xenocidic (talk) 20:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: concerned about copyvio

message: Do not remove link to the only APB forums, apb-evolved.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.10.225.15 (talk • contribs) 
:I've removed the particular external link, until a concensus is reached. StaticGull  Talk  11:12, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm typically against these types of links but in the case of apb-evolved.com, I'd be willing to let it stand for a few reasons: 1) it's not completely ad-laden and the ads that they have are unobtrusive. 2) there's not much info out there in the wild about this game, and this site is a pretty good resource for it, and 3) this article used to be a complete copy-vio cut and paste from apb-evolved and they let us keep it up as long as we linked to them (since it's no longer copy-vio, we're not bound to this, but it would be a courtesy). xenocidic (talk) 12:46, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ext. Links

message: Er, wasn't there an APB video game in the 80s? I seem to remember seeing one for C64 (though I don't know enough about it to add anything useful to the article). --taras (talk) 13:41, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. They aren't related, so a dablink is enough. xenocidic (talk) 11:08, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Old APB

message: Hi, I thought I would post some stuff that could be possibly written in to one of the articles someday, all the things I put here are things that have come from RTW which they said would be in the game. I will update when more info is released each month in their newsletter.
This is an excerpt from Here: http://www.apb-evolved.com/news/53-apb-september-update
Idea already implemented: Arrest / Capture system
Enforcers have an arrest system available to them which serves to take out a criminal player until they are freed or the arrest timer expires and they must respawn as if killed. This can reduce the criminal force for longer periods of time than killing them would unless freed by their criminal group-mates.86.134.253.171 (talk) 19:41, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gameplay infomation 

message: Please stop putting Xbox 360 as a confirmed platform and putting out of date info on here, it has not been confirmed as a platform the game will be on yet, seriously I keep having to change it back.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilolirocksursocks (talk • contribs) 19:08, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Please Read

message: On the official website they say, and I quote, 
"Q: Will there be console ports? Or a Linux or Mac client?
A: We’re just starting to evaluate opportunities for a console port but do not have anything to announce yet."
This conflicts with the information wikipedia gives.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayrossss (talk • contribs) 19:47, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed... But see the teamxbox article... I wish they would make up their mind. Anyhow, maybe this helps. –xenotalk 19:51, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Xbox 360?

message: will have to pay a fee? thanks...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.110.69.39 (talk) 21:24, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  payment 

message: I think the History section needs a clean up, or a new rewriting. I'll do my best. - Eibx 21:56, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: The article seems to state you can interact with up to 25 players. I fail to see how a 26 player game is massive in any way, shape or form, when many other games, who do not bear the MMO genre, can support more players than this game will (BF2/2142 are 40 player capable I believe).
I wish developers would understand that having a monthly fee, being multiplayer only and having elements of persistance does not make their game MMOs. The main characteristic of MMOs is the word MASSIVE. No massive amount of players = not an MMO.
:At the time massive multiplayer games came around, the phrase was used to describe games than contained a number of players way above the normal 4 players, which was very common at the time. APB is a MMO, since the description of what is Massive and what is not, is very unclear.- Eibx 01:24, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: When you sign in, you will have to choose an instance of a world you want to play on. These worlds can contain about a 100 players. An unlimited number of instances can be made in theory. What is meant by interaction, is basically you will not be shooting at more than 25 people at a time. - Eibx 01:19, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This is true. Also, the closed beta date is very incorrect and I will not correct it. 91.105.133.73 (talk) 17:54, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  MMO? 

message: If someone can check the veracity of http://brokentoys.org/2010/08/20/apb-how-to-blow-100000000-00/, we might have something worth writing about here. --71.240.46.168 (talk) 03:48, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Development Costs 

message: http://www.joystiq.com/2010/09/16/apb-comes-to-a-premature-end/  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.168.239.69 (talk) 16:18, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  End 

message: Games should be marked as was as the servers are shut down game is no longer playable. Games are not always marked as present tense see matrix online entry if they are no longer playable.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.131.103.156 (talk) 19:31, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The game has been created therefore it exists. Present tense is correct. Whether it is playable or not is a different argument. Only when every remnant of the game code has been deleted from existence can it be said that the game no longer exists and therefore becomes past tense. - X201 (talk) 09:53, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

text: There are old films and TV programmes on archive shelves that aren't currently being broadcast. They don't stop existing just because they aren't being broadcast, likewise, games don't stop existing just because they aren't being played. - X201 (talk) 10:38, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

text: This IP is correct here, only due to this being an MMO. Half the game exists on a server you need to connect to.  If that server is not there, it is unplayable - that is, it is no longer a game, simply a pile of executable code that will not do anything for the user. --MASEM (t) 14:00, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Seeing as how private servers will always keep popping up, APB one here, any MMO server will never truly be a "was", as there is always a chance of its fans keeping it alive. I think the best compromise would be for a form of wording such as "Game X is a 2010 something game, that had its online service terminated in 2011". I still think that for any hardware or software we should use "is", since the game code still exists.- X201 (talk) 14:26, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was vs Is 

message: Wondering if this article as a whole or specific sections might need to be rewritten so that newer readers won't become confused.  For instance, the embargo controversy is no longer relevant since the game is being re-released and K2/Gamers First aren't responsible, but I am not saying that this section should be outright removed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.85.208.101 (talk) 23:58, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article rewrite to accommodate re-release 

message: APB (All Points Bulletin) Its an old game from Spectrum Synclair computers.Main page dont tell anything about this.
APB reloaded its based on that videogame.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.122.250.171 (talk) 19:03, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  APB from Spectrum 

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