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The Hellgate Reopens
14 years ago
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Were you one of those people who played Hellgate London a long time ago? If so, you were probably like me and were royally pissed when they shut the game down in the middle of what looked like a successful operation. EA does that - they shut down seemingly successful MMOs, probably just because they aren't making enough money.
Well, Hellgate has returned. Apparently it's been snapped up by a Korean company and has been enhanced, made free to play and it's actually quite good. Lulu, Kenji and I have rejoined this old favorite, and if you liked Hellgate back in the day, you might be interested to see it now.
It's now called Hellgate Global. All of the expansion and previous subscription material has been made free to play, with one noted exception (I'm sure you were waiting for this)....
...If you know anything about Korean MMOs, you know they're free to play at a price of annoyance. Namely, that ingame "item mall" thing that requires real money to get items. Thankfully Hellgate doesn't have many items in this mall you can't live without.
However, the one item you HAVE to have that costs money is a ticket to allow your character access to Act III of the story. I understand this costs five bucks. Not bad, really, but this is the kind of stunt that I think might have killed Hellgate in the first place - telling people it's free to play and then pulling a "oh wait, you have to pay to get to this content." Unhappy people on the Global forums have equated this new annoyance to making the game effectively like a demo.
The other annoyance comes in the form of locked weapon mod slots. Roughly half the mod slots in most weapons you find will be locked, requiring an item mall purchase to unlock them. Of course, in Hellgate, since the weapon turnover rate is so damn high it's not really worth doing this; all this change really ends up meaning is that weapons now effectively have fewer mod slots. I suppose I can handle that.
Beyond those two annoyances, however, Hellgate is just as good as I remember! So if you were an old player of this overlooked MMO, go find Hellgate Global. There's only one server, so if you happen to see Lynceus or Lunamira running around, that's us!
Well, Hellgate has returned. Apparently it's been snapped up by a Korean company and has been enhanced, made free to play and it's actually quite good. Lulu, Kenji and I have rejoined this old favorite, and if you liked Hellgate back in the day, you might be interested to see it now.
It's now called Hellgate Global. All of the expansion and previous subscription material has been made free to play, with one noted exception (I'm sure you were waiting for this)....
...If you know anything about Korean MMOs, you know they're free to play at a price of annoyance. Namely, that ingame "item mall" thing that requires real money to get items. Thankfully Hellgate doesn't have many items in this mall you can't live without.
However, the one item you HAVE to have that costs money is a ticket to allow your character access to Act III of the story. I understand this costs five bucks. Not bad, really, but this is the kind of stunt that I think might have killed Hellgate in the first place - telling people it's free to play and then pulling a "oh wait, you have to pay to get to this content." Unhappy people on the Global forums have equated this new annoyance to making the game effectively like a demo.
The other annoyance comes in the form of locked weapon mod slots. Roughly half the mod slots in most weapons you find will be locked, requiring an item mall purchase to unlock them. Of course, in Hellgate, since the weapon turnover rate is so damn high it's not really worth doing this; all this change really ends up meaning is that weapons now effectively have fewer mod slots. I suppose I can handle that.
Beyond those two annoyances, however, Hellgate is just as good as I remember! So if you were an old player of this overlooked MMO, go find Hellgate Global. There's only one server, so if you happen to see Lynceus or Lunamira running around, that's us!
Thats why they shutdown...
..but don't worry, I was equally just as angry.
I have a Blademaster, currently level 29ish, by the name of Desamona. :3
I never heard of this MMO...
I'll check it out.