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[Game signup] It is rare to have Korean online games launching in the western market these days, but Astellia was recently announced. Publisher Barunson E&A might be an unfamiliar name, but the Korean company has been around since 1997 starting out as YTV Communication. With Astellia, its upcoming fantasy PC MMORPG, Barunson E&A is looking to make a huge impact in the western gaming market this year. In this interview, we find out more about the company, Astellia, and ambitions for the future. Read on for more info! Q: Please introduce yourselves to everyone reading this interview. A: My name is Wes Conner, I am the Studio Producer for Astellia with BE&A out of Irvine, California. Q: Not many gamers might know Barunson E&A, and some might mistake the company as Barunson Interactive, developer of Dragonica. Kindly introduce your company to our readers 😊 A: Barunson E&A is a publishing studio focused on bringing AAA Games to the Western market. We’re a … [Read more...] about – Massive interview with Barunson E&A on upcoming western server

Good morning you happy people in digital land.  I am up roughly 30 minutes early today, so here is hoping I can still ramble out something vaguely intelligible.  I am going to warn you… today’s post is going to be pretty ranty.  If you are susceptible to that sort of thing you might simply skip it.  Additionally if you are one of the legion of Final Fantasy apologists that seems to have sprung up on the forums…  you might also want to skip the post. Login Lottery The above animated gif pretty much displays the last three days of trying to play Final Fantasy XIV Realm Reborn.  I have gone through this process hundreds upon hundreds of times attempting to play the game since Saturday evening.  Originally I accepted this as being a weekend problem that they could not fix while the united states data centers were in “weekend” mode.  However we have now had a full work day in the US and as of last night the problem is … [Read more...] about Login Lottery

It’s safe to say that Bless Online’s early access soft launch is not going to plan. As we’ve been reporting, the Neowiz MMORPG has been suffering from crashes and downtime since its release on Monday, with players up in arms over the lack of content at endgame, duping bugs, PvP problems, and cash shop shenanigans. Reddit is understandably awash in complaints and refund notices. That’s no doubt why Executive Producer Sungjin Ko is back on Steam today with copious apologies in tow. “We would like to sincerely apologize to everyone who participated our Head Start as Founders for the recent issues which resulted in long waits and many inconveniences,” he writes. In the short term, Ko says, Neowiz has been racing to get more servers online and curb the client, loading screen, patcher, database, looting, and launcher problems, all of which have been addressed. “Now we have expanded to six NA servers and four EU servers,” he notes, with … [Read more...] about Bless Online producer apologizes for early access mess, promises content and dupe fixes are on the way

It doesn’t appear that the second wave of Bless Online sales that began yesterday for the game’s early access launch will top the peak of the early access headstart. Steam Charts is showing yesterday’s peak falling just shy of the weekend’s 34K zenith, with over 20K players in there right now. What will make Neowiz happy, though, is that Steam reviews have recovered somewhat; while yesterday the game had sunk into the “mostly negative” zone, this morning it was merely “mixed.” (Steam reviews have been buggy this morning and on some games are showing at zero, but we expect that fixed at some point.) Since Neowiz’s apology yesterday – itself a response to complaints over the game’s lack of endgame content, fleshed-out PvP, and dupe-protection – it’s suffered another round of “urgent maintenance” downtime, closed a server, added a new server, and dropped character creation restrictions on … [Read more...] about Bless Online Steam reviews climb to ‘mixed’ as experience buff event begins

Last night’s bombshell that Bless Online is closing down its final Korean servers, leaving the game’s Steam version in the west as the only one still running, surely has the community wondering about Neowiz’s intentions here. We recently spoke to the studio on multiple subjects revolving around Bless: on the curse of early access expectations, localization, the game’s age, retention, launch, pay-to-win perceptions, comparisons to Final Fantasy XIV, and where the money for Bless Unleashed came from (spoiler: It’s not from Bless Online). We’ve got that interview for you today. Do note that while technically this interview was conducted before the formal announcement that Bless Korea was closing, Neowiz does make a brief mention about that at the end in noting that the western Steam version is now the “main and sole version of Bless Online across the globe.” MassivelyOP: It seems like Bless has just been blasted with bad reviews and bad … [Read more...] about Interview: Bless Online on early access, pay-to-win, and its western refuge on Steam