Four months after its release, it's fair to say Hellgate: London didn't live up to expectations. There was an unfortunate gulf between what people wanted - a polished successor to Diablo, and what they received - a buggy, seemingly unfinished dungeon crawler.
This abyss of expectation isn't something that's gone unnoticed by Flagship, and a string of subsequent patches (a content update - The Stonehenge Chronicles) have begun to set right what went so wrong. But how do you change first impressions? You can't. Can you?
Before Flagship Studios, there was Blizzard North. Originally known as Condor, the Redwood-based studio was acquired in 1997 by Blizzard Entertainment. At the time, Blizzard North was hard at work on the development of the game that would be the cornerstone of everything that came after: Diablo.
IGN : Remember Hellgate: London? The dark fantasy action role-playing game came out in 2007 for PC, a year before developer Flagship Studios went bankrupt. Since then, various free-to-play and online revivals have come and gone. Now, 17 years after the release of Hellgate: London, it’s back.
I remember some friends and I all bought Hellgate: London day one because it was made by some original Diablo devs. We had fun playing it, good memories.
PC Invasion: Hellgate: London is back on Steam, but it's not what you expect it to be. It's a single-player game in the vein of Asian MMOs.
Dont buy this game.
It's much easier to gain a following with a great first impression then try to win them back with bug fixes and new content. I don't understand the game publishing world sometimes where they feel it is better to rush something out and hit a date then to give it a month or two more to fix the problems that cripple a product. In an MMO they just figure they'll fix it with patches, but people move on, they don't keep coming back to test the waters.
I uninstalled this game months ago from my computer, its the sh*tiest game ever omg bugs, game locks, memory problems, drops EVERYTHING is a problem with this game, and all the stuff we were promised as SUBSCRIBERS were given to the NON subscribers for free so we paid subscription for 3 months to get the same sh*t non subs got, and the patches always bring new bugs, i really want to decapitate Bill Roper.