Realtime Worlds. How not be be a successful video game company.

[Costa 1st MRB]

The company, founded by the creator of Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto, is based at a former jute mill in the city.

It employs about 250 people and was seen as one of the biggest players in the global computer games market.

Its newest title, online role-playing game APB, launched a few weeks ago but has experienced "lacklustre" demand.

APB was five years in development but is thought to have failed to attract sufficient numbers of subscribers following mediocre reviews.

Realtime Worlds made 60 staff redundant last week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tays...entral-11003456

I'm really not too surprised considering how they handled Crackdown 2 and APB. I mean the games had a cool concept and all it's just that they where pretty god damn lazy when it came to getting the bugs kinked out.

Of course I guess this is what happens when you make a fairly buggy MMO in today's market, then try to back it with a re-skinned version of an older game.

EDIT: Here's a Realtime Employee's take on things.

EDIT2: And some depressing tweets from another Employee.

Edited August 18, 2010 by Costa 1st MRB