Auto Assault terminates on August 31st - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 3rd Jul 2007, 15:11

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/07...on_august_31/1

NCSoft has announced that Auto Assault will close its doors on August 31st.

knowyourenemy · 3rd Jul 2007, 15:14

Now I have never looked into what happens when an MMO shuts down, but are private server files ever released?

Jamie · 3rd Jul 2007, 15:22

I played the beta for a bit and it really didn't have the appeal of something like WoW or EVE.

Must have been pretty dead in game.

Amon · 3rd Jul 2007, 15:25

I loved the idea and game concept--definitely a much-needed departure from the norm. Too bad it never really clicked with the Lord of the Rings audience like WoW did at the peak of the films' popularity.

Bladestorm · 3rd Jul 2007, 16:22

It always surprised me that developers who could make something as solid, engaging and original(in gameplay anyway) as jumpgate, could go on to make something as boring, bland and generic as auto assault, here's hoping they get the old magic back with jumpgate 2

Tyinsar · 3rd Jul 2007, 16:31

As long as they keep the current Guild Wars running I'm happy (I don't need or want GW2 or even GW:EN - I'm almost done two of the three campaigns but I still want at least a year or more for those two and the third one.)

yakyb · 3rd Jul 2007, 16:34

with the amount of time i spent on WoW i vowed never to play an MMO again so this is of little significance really

Sad for the developers tho

BioSniper · 3rd Jul 2007, 17:35

That's a bit of a shame tbh. I quite enjoyed it in the time I played it though too many people I knew were sceptical and as such refused to play.
I still have an un-used collectors edition here and everything.

DriftCarl · 3rd Jul 2007, 20:56

I didnt like beta at all. It seemed really cheap and gameplay didnt really seem smooth, it felt like stunt race FX on the SNES

DXR_13KE · 3rd Jul 2007, 23:20

never heard of it...... i think.....

Jokkocze · 3rd Jul 2007, 23:23

I really hope that they'll release the server software.. It's ok, but I dont want to pay for it.

K.I.T.T. · 4th Jul 2007, 07:53

i hope the release the server software too because i beta tested it and i thought it was a really good game and it was an MMO that i'd actually play (i've vowed never to play WoW)...its a shame to hear that its being forced out by WoW

Artanix · 4th Jul 2007, 08:52

Pretty sad really, but it was coming.

I played the game about a year after it released, and it had 3 servers, and at peak times you'd have about 100 people playing tops. Looks like the last patch was a last ditch attempt to get players. Shame really, but it would be awesome if they released the software, at least some people would be able to enjoy their work.

p3n · 4th Jul 2007, 08:56

As a serious wow player (shameless plug http://www.celebrityguild.com/) I cant understand what attracts so many people who play a very different game to me, I would imagine games like AA would be better suited to a 'casual' player - blizzard definitely seem to have the recipe for addiction

Bladestorm · 4th Jul 2007, 18:37

At least in beta and around launch, AA's gameplay had pretty linear character progression, with the cooler (although almost all 4-wheeled standard type vehicles) set up at sparse intervals as carrots on sticks, with the progress to said actually somewhat cool vehicles being via grinding through missions that were nothing special or just plain boring (and often painfull/painfully slow) grinding when you ran out of missions now and then, It didn't really attempt to do anything special, revolutionary or amazing outside of putting wheels on the player avatars. It was sort of painfull during beta to see them adding in new blander vehicles as the earlier ones and moving the truly nice/different ones further up in levels, that and when they switched from giving players a choice of vehicle type to just making them a linear progression. But I guess they had to fill out the higher levels of grinding somehow.

What surprises me however is that it failed so completely - I've lost count of the number of MMO's that were average at best but still attracted loyal fanbases of players who'd never tried other MMO's (or only other poorer ones) it was almost as if they didn't even try.

3rd Jul 2007, 15:11	#1
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4th Jul 2007, 08:52	#13
Artanix Minimodder Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 23	Pretty sad really, but it was coming. I played the game about a year after it released, and it had 3 servers, and at peak times you'd have about 100 people playing tops. Looks like the last patch was a last ditch attempt to get players. Shame really, but it would be awesome if they released the software, at least some people would be able to enjoy their work.

4th Jul 2007, 08:56	#14
p3n Hypermodder Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 736	As a serious wow player (shameless plug http://www.celebrityguild.com/) I cant understand what attracts so many people who play a very different game to me, I would imagine games like AA would be better suited to a 'casual' player - blizzard definitely seem to have the recipe for addiction

4th Jul 2007, 18:37	#15
Bladestorm Hypermodder Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 682	At least in beta and around launch, AA's gameplay had pretty linear character progression, with the cooler (although almost all 4-wheeled standard type vehicles) set up at sparse intervals as carrots on sticks, with the progress to said actually somewhat cool vehicles being via grinding through missions that were nothing special or just plain boring (and often painfull/painfully slow) grinding when you ran out of missions now and then, It didn't really attempt to do anything special, revolutionary or amazing outside of putting wheels on the player avatars. It was sort of painfull during beta to see them adding in new blander vehicles as the earlier ones and moving the truly nice/different ones further up in levels, that and when they switched from giving players a choice of vehicle type to just making them a linear progression. But I guess they had to fill out the higher levels of grinding somehow. What surprises me however is that it failed so completely - I've lost count of the number of MMO's that were average at best but still attracted loyal fanbases of players who'd never tried other MMO's (or only other poorer ones) it was almost as if they didn't even try. __________________ Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 250x10 (1.475v) \| EVGA GTX 260 55nm SSC \| A8N-SLI Premium \| 2x(4GB) Corsair Twinx2048-PC3200C2 \| Asus Xonar DX \| Antec truepower 550w \| Akasa Eclipse-62 DDC12VPlus1, DD TDX, 3/8 tygon r3603 tubing, PA120.2, DD double floppy bay res