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Blade&Soul is expected to launch in July

May 15th, 2012

NCsoft announced at the earning call on the 15^th of May that there has not been any changes on the service schedule of Blade&Soul. NCsoft is working hard to have OBT during the first half of 2012 and predicting OBT in June and public service in July.

The 3^rd CBT will be closed on the 22^nd of May. With considering 3 weeks of OBT and public service on July, it is possible that OBT will start the middle of June.

NCsoft thinks of the launch of Diablo3 as a chance to increase a gaming user pool. The company will try to attract as many gamers as possible within the increased pool.

NCsoft has homework to do as well. The vitality system that was applied during the 3^rd CBT period has made a huge controversy among users. The vitality system controls the experience points that users could gain along with playing time. The system is made for casual users. Therefore, complains from hardcore users are extreme now.

NCsoft is carefully looking at the vitality system during the 3^rd CBT because they need to re-balance the system somehow before the public service. The goal of Blade&Soul is to attract as many casual gamers as possible, so NCsoft has made the game easy to play.

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New Action MORPG Dungeon Striker is announced!

April 5th, 2012

NHN announces Dungeon Striker, a brand new Action MORPG from EYEdentity Games, publishing schedule today. NHN schedules its first OBT on the 27^th of April through Hangame.

Dungeon Striker is designed for everyone. It eliminated the complex control system, limited classes, and requiring long play hours. Instead, it has ultra-speed combat such as hitting 10 times per second, unlimited transferring class system etc.

4 Classes for the 1^st OBT

The game will provide 4 classes for the 1^st OBT: Warrior, Ranger, Mage, and Cleric. A user could create his own character like a cloak-able warrior or a mage with healing abilities by combining each class.

Users could apply for the 1^st OBT from today at the official site: http://ds.hangame.com

For more in-game screenshots and teaser movies, please click here.

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Blade&Soul to Begin within First Half of 2012

February 16th, 2012

NCsoft’s director of management SungChan Na said yesterday at 2011 earning report conference call that they are finishing <Blade&Soul> up and their business team is currently arrange the schedule for launch. He also said that they have internally decided to launch the game officially within the first half of this year.

So, according to his remark, all of its third closed beta test which is already scheduled, open beta test, and commercial service would be kicked off until June at latest.

NCsoft is planning to pour US$32M into marketing for its two big MMORPGs, <B&S> and <Guild Wars 2>, this year which is a double amount compared to total marketing expense they spent last year.

They are looking forward to making a go of the highly anticipated MMORPG as much as <Aion> — pulling in US$222M an year.

In 2011, the company recorded sales of US$540M(7% down year-on-year), business profit of US$120M, and net profit during the term of US$106M, expecting 25% to 30% increase in annual sales thanks to the games.

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B&S Likely to Go OBT Without 3rd CBT

August 29th, 2011

NCsoft kicks off 2nd CBT of <Blade & Soul> today in the largest size ever in MMORPG history in Korea. Industry guesses the CBT would be the last test for NCsoft prior to upcoming OBT which is set to launch this year.

Total 4 servers and 50 PC bangs will be operated for the 2nd CBT. each of the servers will sustain maximum 7,000 gamers which will eventually add up to 30,000 CCU with the PC bangs.

The 2nd CBT features gathering and craft systems and antagonistic relationship of players in addtion to introducing new class Assassine and 10 instant dungeons.

“We plan to start OBT within this year but it won’t be so long even if it kicks off late,” said JaeHo Lee the vice president of NCsoft.

Since the 1st CBT took place in April and the next one is taking place 4 months after the first one, there is not quite enough time to have 3rd test before having OBT this year.

In addition to that, NCsoft gives away limited costume items that can be used at OBT to the testers this time while the 1st CBT participants were given priority over the 2nd CBT in the past.

So as far as we can presume, NCsoft is hoping to kick off OBT without having CBT three times.

“We have no further plan now as we do not address our schedule until we believe in our game’s completion,” said NCsoft. “The amount of work we would be dealing with depends on the feedback and result of the 2nd CBT. So the next move would be fixed after this test.”

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Divine Soul Launches OBT in Russia

May 9th, 2011

GamePrix’s MORPG <Divine Soul> launched OBT in Russia with Russian publisher Nikita Online.

<Divine Soul> has been signed in January and has begun CBT in April. ?Then it started the OBT right after the end of the CBT.

“Russia was different. Both gamers and publisher showed more attitude toward the game. The quality feedback from players would be a great help to make the game better,” said SungWan Hong the CEO of GamePrix. “Launching in overseas market for the first time is a new challenge to <Divine Soul>. We, all the executives and staffs, will try our best to make the best game for Russian gamers.”

More details are available at the Russian official site(soul.gamexp.ru).