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==Development history== [[Flagship Studios]] had proposed regular additions to ''Hellgate: London'' throughout the life of the game.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=649&page=1 | title = Flagship's Roper on Hellgate: London's Future | accessdate = 2007-10-30 |date= 2007-10-29 | last = Remo | first = Chris | work = [[Shacknews]] }}</ref> *'''October 31, 2007''' - Hellgate: London is released in the USA on Halloween. *'''January 21, 2008''' - The first major content update 'The Stonehenge Chronicles' was scheduled for release but postponed. *'''January 22, 2008''' - The first major content update 'The Stonehenge Chronicles' was released (MP patch 1.0). *'''January 24, 2008''' - Flagship Studios recruits players for their team advocate program. *'''January 27, 2008''' - MP patch 1.1 released mostly addressing patch 1.0 issues. *'''February 10, 2008''' - In an IRC chat conference with Hellgate London developers, it was revealed that promised subscriber holiday event development would be halted. *'''February 17, 2008''' - The client function /who was disabled. It returned the present number of players online. *'''February 20, 2008''' - HanbitSoft announces Hellgate: Londons next update major content update 'The Abyss Chronicles'. *'''March 17, 2008''' - MP patch 1.2 released. Contains new boss 'Dessicator', functional pets and dye kits. *'''March 26, 2008''' - It was announced that [[Comerica|Comerica Bank]] would provide game funding assistance, using ''Hellgate: London'' as collateral, for Flagship Studios so that they would not "rely upon a publisher's investment" to support ongoing development of their games.<ref name="funding">{{cite web | url=http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/37734/Hellgate-London-Gets-Financial-Aid | title=Hellgate: London Gets Financial Aid | accessdate=2008-03-31 | date=2008-03-26 | publisher=Voodoo Extreme}}</ref> *'''April 4, 2008''' - SP patch 1.2 released. *'''February 1, 2009''' - US/EU online play and support halted. ===Expansions=== ====The Stonehenge Chronicles==== The Stonehenge Chronicles patch was scheduled for release on January 21, 2008 but was postponed until January 22, 2008 due to bugs.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} ====The Abyss Chronicles==== The last content patch developed by [[Flagship Studios]] was the Abyss Chronicles. Some players experienced the patch on the test center server for a number of months before it was taken offline shortly after the fall of [[Flagship Studios]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} ===Launch problems=== Due to problems with the subscription service, the Halloween holiday subscription content was made available to all players, both fee-paying and free-playing.<ref>[http://www.hellgatelondon.com/underground/happy-halloween Happy Halloween! | Hellgate London<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In Southeast Asia, two weeks after the game was released, many players complained about a game patch, installed by Infocomm Asia Holdings (IAH), which supposedly would have deleted player's characters since game launch.<ref name="asiaone">{{cite web | url = http://digital.asiaone.com/Digital/News/Story/A1Story20071115-36887.html | title = It's hell for gamers with Hellgate bug fix | accessdate = 2007-11-22 |date=2007-11-15 | last = Lee | first = Oo Gin | work=digital.asiaone.com}}</ref> While the EU and US servers had received recent patches and additional content since launch, support and patching of the SEA server had been delayed. IAHGames, the distributor of Hellgate: London and the company providing the "Alliance" server for the SEA region, had promised patch 0 on launch day itself.<ref>[http://hellgate.iahgames.com/common/content.aspx?templateId=121b9a7b-90fa-48f2-b460-4040bf9ae29d&itemId=3db3a12f-3a15-4280-ac8f-235f7f165652&parentTemplateId=2e85be49-6a8b-4b67-8ae5-b3047663fade Game News: Upcoming patch]</ref> However, Patch 0 was delayed with no official date of implementation. On 14 November, a joint statement by the CEOs of IAHGames and Flagship Studios announced that the both Patch 0 and Patch 0.1 will be implemented on November 22 and that they are considering some compensation for the early adopters.<ref name="asiaone"/><ref>[http://hellgate.iahgames.com/common/content.aspx?templateId=121b9a7b-90fa-48f2-b460-4040bf9ae29d&itemId=29e260a9-277a-43c0-9361-17bf4e008e59&parentTemplateId=2e85be49-6a8b-4b67-8ae5-b3047663fade [IAH News] Good News from our developers โ No Wipe]</ref> ===Intellectual property acquisition=== On November 3, 2008, Blizzard software distributor [[Hanbitsoft|Hanbitsoft Inc.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hanbitsoft.com|title=Hanbitsoft, Inc. |accessdate=2008-11-06}}</ref> announced via its global public relations blog, that it has acquired the ''Hellgate: London'' and ''[[Mythos (video game)|Mythos]]'' properties from Flagship Studios. No mention of February 2009 server support was detailed. The post also mentions development of an upcoming expansion<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20921|title=HanbitSoft Planning Hellgate Relaunch |accessdate=2008-11-06 |author=Eric Caoili |publisher=www.gamasutra.com |date=2008-11-03 }}</ref> using leftover Flagship development efforts. Hanbitsoft has announced on company sites that although it is not interested in providing this content to customers outside [[Asia]], its intent is not to lose users but the number of users is continually declining.{{Citation needed|date=February 2009}} Updates from these company sites state the expansion pack includes new maps featuring [[Seoul]], [[South Korea]] and a product title: ''The Second Invasion''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hg.hanbiton.com/News/NoticeView.aspx?BoardID=1&ptype=2&search_type=&search_keyword=&page=0&postid=1126|title=์๋ด ํฌ๊ฒ์ดํธ: ๋ฐ๋ ๋๋ฒ์งธ ์นจ๊ณต|accessdate=2009-01-01}}</ref> ===Servers and regional support=== Ping0 managed the American (US) and European (EU) regional servers for ''Hellgate: London'' while IAHgames managed the Southeast Asia (SEA) regional server along with the game support and user forums for SEA region players. ===Southeast Asia server=== Players who purchased the game in Southeast Asia had problems of server crashing issues, the publishing companies involved [[Infocomm Asian Holdings]] and [[Hanbitsoft]] have given an official response to the matter, after several requests from the community to do so.<ref>[http://kotaku.com/gaming/erased/asian-hellgate-london-servers-to-get-wiped-321249.phpAsian Hellgate: London servers problems]</ref> ===Server shutdown and future development=== {{further|[[Hellgate: London#Intellectual property acquisition|Intellectual property acquisition]]}} In August 2008, amidst the shut down of [[Flagship Studios]] in August 2008,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3169356 |title= Bill Roper spoke out at last |accessdate= 2008-10-26 |last= Green |first= Jeff |date= 2008-08-18 |publisher= 1UP.com}}</ref> and the loss of the intellectual property rights, it was announced that ''Hellgate: London'' game servers would be shut down as of January 31, 2009.<ref name="shut down"/> In the interview, [[Bill Roper (video game producer)|Bill Roper]] admitted that even he thought the game would be a major failure {{Citation needed|reason=June, 2009|date=July 2009}}. As announced at 12:00am February 1, 2009 CST the game server for the North American and European regions became inaccessible and the website for ''Hellgate: London'' also went offline. On November 12, 2009, Korean-based game developer HanbitSoft announced the re-development of ''Hellgate: London'' (authorized by the former Flagship Studio) had been completed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.mmosite.com/content/2009-11-13/20091113030637844,2.shtml |title= Hellgate: Resurrection and Hellgate: Tokyo Announced |accessdate= 2009-11-21 |date= 2009-11-13}}</ref> The new project, entitled ''Hellgate: Resurrection'', was slated for beta testing on November 17, with an official launch date of December 8. Monthly Subscription and Free Basic Content will be the two business models adopted in the game. ''Hellgate: Resurrection'' will be operated via new servers, offering players wholly new services. Though the gameโs source code does come from ''Hellgate: London'', many changes have actually been made in its gameplay, e.g. the cancellation of the level cap โ 50, the addition of the character advancement system and the improved class balance. ''Hellgate: Resurrection'' will also have The Abyss Chronicles update that wasn't able to be in the original game. Details about the new content were not unveiled at the press conference, but from the planned addition of 10 regions and 3 bosses, it will certainly be a large-scale update. Part of ''Hellgate: Resurrection'' includes the new expansion ''Hellgate: Tokyo''. Said to have a graphic style similar to that of ''Hellgate: London'', the new add-on is set in the future within a destroyed Tokyo, as well as Osaka and Yokohama. The add-on was slated for release on March 2010. HanbitSoft has revealed that it has plans for a new server located in North America.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gamerlimit.com/2010/01/hanbitsoft-resuscitates-hellgate-london-in-north-america-and-europe/ |title= HanbitSoft resuscitates Hellgate: London in North America and Europe |accessdate= 2010-05-30 |last= |first= |date= 2010-01-18 |publisher= gamerlimit.com}}</ref>
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