I finished farming Shulgoth in Hellgate: London today, getting the achievement for him and breaking the 100,000 palladium mark in the process. Unfortunately, the very future of the game is in a bit of turmoil now…

It’s unlikely they’ll shut it down entirely, since the creditors didn’t accept the game’s IP as collateral just to do nothing with it in the case they had to foreclose. But it does make me wonder what’s going to happen to updates like the already-way-late 2.0 patch. Then again, maybe they can get someone else to do a better job. The fundamental gameplay of HG:L is pretty good, especially after all the fixes and rebalancing, but their basic weakness has always been the rather repetitive base content and the slow pace at rolling out new content. They’ve already missed their goal of releasing a major update once a quarter, and there haven’t even been any minor events recently.