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[Rage187]

I'm guessing Hellgate is released next week as Hellgate 2007. Followed 9 months later by Hellgate 2008. Inbetween expect a million micro transactions.

Can't wait to see how they get ingame advertising worked into this one.

 

[WelshBloke]

Originally posted by: Feneant2
At least this garantees 3-4 sequels over the next couple of years.

Yep I'm guessing Hellgate Birmingham, hellgate Dagenham and hellgate Milton Keynes (which lets face it is pretty much true life).

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: SoftwareEng
sorry, what diff does it make who publishes it? the content will remain the same, no?

Depends. If a publisher gives money towards the developer, often they want to alter certain elements of the game so they can be more confident it will sell well and that they will get a good return.
If this publishing deal is like Valve/HL2/EA then it won't be an issue, as Valve currently do all their stuff themselves, and all EA do is publish, not fund AFAIK, which means they basically have no say in what happens.

 

[tuteja1986]

Dude ea is publishing it not funding the development... ;( Do you think Valve lets EA interfere withs development and lets have a say like "You must add in game advertisment on Half life 2 , Counter Source and Day of Defeats.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Well, I feel dumb, I always thought that most of the money came from the publisher.
Anyway, I doubt that even if EA was funding the game that they'd put in-game adverts in it... yet. Battlefield is their mony maker. Hellgate is not. They know that people will buy Battlefield games and that if they put the ads there then they have their audience. Hellgate (I'm looking forward to this game so don't flame me.) is probably not worth the investment. It's a new franchise whos fate is up in the air.

Just my two cents.