Realtime Worlds appears to have misplaced its keys, as the city won’t be opened for another two days. The APB Key to the City end-of-beta event is now scheduled to begin at 9am EDT on Saturday June 12th, 2010 in North America and 8am GMT in Europe. Lead designer David Jones gave this explanation:
We’ve worked tirelessly to bring the service online, installing and configuring a massive amount of new hardware in our data-centres, to help meet the high demand and bring you the best experience we can. As we’re sure you’ll appreciate, this is a huge undertaking and unfortunately on this occasion, we’ve hit a number of installation delays.
The event is intended to allow a taste of APB to those players lucky enough to have codes for it – they will gain access to the game’s social districts for an unlimited time, and the action districts for five hours. While for many people this is simply a delay in their chance to get a free look at an upcoming game, some loyal customers have obtained codes for the event by way of pre-order bonuses, so there are no doubt some unhappy fans out there today.
Visit the official site for more info.