I have had a morbid curiousity about wanting to play this game since just before it crashed and died, but never did.

I suppose I'll get my chance shortly.

I loved that game. Now I miss my Voodoo sniper rifle, used to one-shot every bad demon with my bros. Good times.

I remember that game. I trialed it back then. Will definitely try it again!

I actually really enjoyed the original release of this, though I never played it online. I might just have to keep an eye on this one. And as stated, free is free.

I dunno, lots of potential in a game like that, I might have to try and get back into it.

Wonder if they'll give any bonuses to people who own the physical game before its crash...never had a chance to play it back then, but I'll give it a shot this time around.

what? why would they do that? it's like resurrecting a homeless dude. nobody missed him, nobody wants him around anymore, just let him rest in peace....

As I recall, the original game was also free to play... sorta. It had a premium version which was supposed to gain access to new content, but just playing the main campaign was something you could do for free... assuming you'd picked up a boxed copy, but still.

Hmm... I was just about to buy that game sometime soon too, I enjoyed the demo a lot... wait... it was a pay for MMO? Kinda glad I didn't buy it then, especially now since it is going to be free to play...

I see no reason Hell Gate can't carve itself out a niche in the MMO market.

Back then it was basically a really good game, except for the horrendous number of minor but annoying bugs. It was quite good fun and had plenty of violence (more than WoW) and interesting weapons.

With it going down the F2P route I can see lots of people trying it out, once the bugs were fixed it was a lot better and it's down fine round Korea way. Not a WoW damager by any means but I hope it does well this time.

I can't believe they are bringing that crappy game back -.-

I liked that game. It was pretty fun, after few patches. I especially liked the elemental weapons...

Has any one had any issues signing up? Everything I try is unavalable.

I like games that are free to play unless they have items that you have to pay real money for that are basically instant win buttons.

I only tried the Demo for the original. So, for the sake of curiosity, I will give this a shot.

yes, original hellgate was Freemium. If you didn't pay the subscription you got 3 of the 9 or so classes, and couldn't paint your armor, or something. The Cairn Stones expansion was for subscribers only, as well.

You may recall Penny Arcade's comic about it, "Elite players may devour freeplayers, Free players may not speak to Elite players, even if they trick them by saying "Freeplayusersayswhat?"

Sure it's freE to play, but it there going to be European servers?! Or will I have to play on the American realms

-M

I'm going to have to give this a shot when i get a new PC.

I couldn't play that game because the framerate was horrific at certain points, and this was several years after release with a top-of-the-line computer.

Hmm...Might give a shot. I did like the solo campain.

I do have a hard copy somwwhere in my dark corners of my room...I got it for 50kr!(roughly 5$)

My friends and I always wanted to play this but never got the chance. It's time to right some wrongs

Hellgate was a classic example of mismanagement. Bill Roper was too busy daydreaming about swimming in his moneyvault to bother creating an actual game. The best thing to come out of the whole debacle was Runic Games/Torchlight.

Basically Flagship had a "monetization strategy" first then attempted to wrap a game around it. And that is fail for anyone who has a soul/isn't Zynga, but I repeat myself.

Fitting for my luck i bought the game 1 week before the servers were shut down >.>
I hope they will give some kind of benefit for the owners of the original release, or it will be money down the sinkhole (as it WAS until now)

I might give this game a try when it comes out.

I played the game back when it was in open beta. I liked it, but it was quite a bit rough around the edges (read: a huge mess), but for what it was, I liked it.

I'll definitely play it again and even better now that it will be completely free.

I was one of the beta testers back in the day and while of course there were a lot of bugs and annoyances, at the core there was some really fun shit to do, good weapons and funky things to kill. I enjoyed it quite a lot and will most likely pick it back up.

I'm reading this "free to play" in the sense of Guild Wars, no subscription. Or has it gone the way of Champions Online and such?

We'll still actually be paying for the game, just without subscription fees, is how I understand it. What's the deal?

Nice. I too liked Hellgate, though I actually thought it worked better as a single player game - the grouping was a bit broken really. Still, good news that it's coming back. I'm pretty sure I still have it installed, I wonder if it'll just work again?