Flagship Studios
| Flagship Studios, Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2003 |
| resolution | 2008 |
| Seat | San Francisco , California , United States |
| management | Bill Roper ( CEO ) |
| Website | www.flagshipstudios.com |
The Flagship Studios ( FSS ) were an established 2003 American game developer based in San Francisco , California . Other parts of the company were Ping0 , a joint venture with the Korean game developer HanbitSoft and the subsidiary Flagship Seattle , which developed the online platform for Hellgate: London . Due to financial problems, the flagship studios and their parts of the company were closed in July 2008.
history
Established in July 2003
In July 2003, shortly after Bill Roper , the brothers Max and Erich Schaefer and David Brevik, whose names were associated with successful game titles such as Warcraft , StarCraft and, above all, Diablo , left the game developer Blizzard Entertainment , which was in a phase of reorganization and was offered for sale by Vivendi Universal , they founded Flagship Studios and announced the development of their first computer game, the title of which, Hellgate: London , was announced in April 2005.
Cooperation and Development
Publisher for Hellgate: London were Electronic Arts and Namco Bandai Games America Inc. for the USA, North America and Europe . Namco, until then only active in the console sector, wanted to enter the PC game market with the cooperation, but rejected this plan in the middle the development phase, so that the Flagship Studios were forced to found another part of the company called Ping0 , which u. a. the network connection for Hellgate: London and the account management had to take over. The game developer and publisher HanbitSoft took over the marketing in South Korea .
On December 14, 2006 the founding of the subsidiary Flagship Seattle was announced, which was commissioned with the joint venture Ping0 to implement an online platform for Hellgate: London . The game Mythos , which is under development, served as a test platform. The development of Hellgate: London was called on 17 October 2007 as completed. The online platform for Hellgate: London was officially released on October 31, 2007.
Closing in July 2008
The first rumors about the closure of the flagship studios surfaced in mid-July 2008. In mid-August, Max Schaefer, co-founder of Flagship Studios , confirmed that the company was practically closed. Flagship CEO Bill Roper and a few other employees would only handle legal and financial tasks. The flagship studios would then also be legally closed .
The reasons given for the closure were financial problems that prevented further development. Bill Roper and Max Schaefer cited the premature publication of Hellgate: London and wrong decisions by the management of the flagship studios as reasons for the financial problems , which were also caused by problems with their cooperation partners.
Games
Hellgate: London
| Surname | Released | genre |
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| Hellgate: London | October 30, 2007 | Action RPG |
Hellgate: London is an action-oriented computer role-playing game that can be played partly from the first person perspective or the third person perspective . Hellgate: London failed to meet the high expectations of players and the press, which ultimately led to the collapse of the flagship studios . Namco Bandai Games supported the online mode until January 31, 2009:
myth
The company's subsidiary Flagship Seattle developed the computer game Mythos , an MMORPG . With myth , the online network initially for London: Hellgate tested. The development of Mythos was stopped after the collapse of the Flagship Studios in July 2008 and the beta servers were shut down.
Max Schaefer, Travis Baldree and other flagship employees founded the game developer Runic Games shortly afterwards and developed a myth and Diablo-like game called Torchlight .
On October 27, 2011 the Mythos servers were shut down completely. Distribution in the USA is also no longer necessary.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d gamecyte.com ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Interview with Max Schaefer, August 14, 2008 (accessed November 13, 2008)
- ↑ warcry.com ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Interview with Bill Roper: "We also were working on a casual online MMO called Mythos when we had to close the studio in July 2008." (English, accessed on November 13, 2008)
- ↑ 1up.com ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Interview with Bill Roper at the end of the Flagship Studios (English, accessed November 13, 2008)
- ↑ hellgatelondon.com ( memento of October 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ): Announcement of the online operation of Hellgate: London on the game's website (English, accessed on November 13, 2008)
- ↑ http://www.runicgames.com/
- ↑ http://torchlightgame.com/
