Hellgate Guru

Earlier today, an interview with Bill Roper was published. Flagship Studios has informed me that the content of the aforementioned interview contains some very questionable (which is to say bullshit) content and speculation that, in the context of the article, make it sound like direct quotations from Bill Roper and Flagship Studios.

Furthermore, Flagship Studios has not decided upon a payment scheme, if there is to be one, in Hellgate: London, at this point. The sentence “Players pay per month to join the server and create a character and from here they can meet up with their friends in towns.” consists of pure speculation and little else.

The section of text that starts “The Multiplayer component of the game comes in a Guild Wars style MMO” consists entirely of speculation on the part of i30. Hellgate: London is not a Guild Wars style MMO.

Bill was asked how much the boxed product of Hellgate: London would cost once it goes on shelves, but apparently i30 saw fit to alter the question upon their publication of the interview with Bill Roper:

i30.multiplay.co.uk: How much does the multiplayer subscription cost?

Bill Roper: It’s not been set yet, but there’s not going to be any surprise in the pricing - it’ll be matching what’s currently around.

To clarify once more, Bill Roper was responding to a question regarding the price of the boxed game. He was not referring to the multiplayer subscription cost, if there even is one. We do not know why i30 chose to edit their article to reflect this falsehood.

Here is the chat transcript from Community Manager Brennan Ieyoub on the subject:

Brennan: Have a small issue with the Bill Roper Presents HG:L at i30 news bit that went up on Guru.
Brennan: Got some clarification from bill.
Ian: Yeah?
Brennan: First off the section of text that starts “The Multiplayer component of the game comes in a Guild Wars style MMO”
Ian: Which is of course, wrong. Heh.
Brennan: Makes it seem like Bill is directly quoted when all of that is speculation from i30.
Brennan: Whom I will be contacting shortly, btw.
Ian: I’ll change it accordingly.
Brennan: Also, the Multiplayer subscription part.
Brennan: The original question to bill was, “how much will the boxed product cost?”
Brennan: It has nothing to do with a multiplayer subscription rate.
Ian: And they took it out of context? Damn.

Well there you have it.