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Game just launched in China: massive succes

TrashcantoyTrashcantoy Member Posts: 827
in Blade & Soul

Today marks the start of the Open Beta for Blade & Soul in China (first country to launch). The game opened with 120(!) servers, all of them with long queues. Wow.

Source: http://www.mmoculture.com/2013/11/blade-soul-120-servers-not-enough-to-handle-official-launch/

 

(yes, 120 is a big number even in a vast country as China)

MMOs currently playing: -
About to play: Lord of the Rings Online
Played: Anarchy Online (alltime favorite) and lots of f2p titles (honorable mentions: 9Dragons, Martial Heroes, Dekaron, Atlantica Online)

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  • SawlstoneSawlstone Member Posts: 301
    Don't really care about B&S, but clicking the link was worth it to see all the hot Asian Blade and Soul models :D
  • RzepRzep Member UncommonPosts: 767
    I, and I am guessing most readers, are not in China, wake me up when this thing actually leaves the asian territories.
  • bcbullybcbully Member EpicPosts: 11,843
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't B&S another traditional themepark? 
  • RzepRzep Member UncommonPosts: 767
    Looks like the Tera, RaiderZ sort of game.
  • TrashcantoyTrashcantoy Member Posts: 827
    Originally posted by bcbully
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't B&S another traditional themepark? 

    It is a themepark. But not just "another", that's the whole point of the news article.

     

    Originally posted by Rzep
    I, and I am guessing most readers, are not in China, wake me up when this thing actually leaves the asian territories.

    I am sure there are enough people who appreciate the news. Too bad you had to come up with a reply like this.

    MMOs currently playing: -
    About to play: Lord of the Rings Online
    Played: Anarchy Online (alltime favorite) and lots of f2p titles (honorable mentions: 9Dragons, Martial Heroes, Dekaron, Atlantica Online)

  • skyline385skyline385 Member Posts: 564

    I have seen images and videos but is this game as boring as Tera?

    In Tera, every enemy after a few levels had the same attacks. Like literally the same attacks, i am not even exaggerating here. Anyone can clarify this for me? Is there a problem like this in B&S?

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  • cnutempcnutemp Member UncommonPosts: 230
    Didn't swtor have 200+ maxed at launch?
  • TorgrimTorgrim Member CommonPosts: 2,088
    Yawn!!!

    If it's not broken, you are not innovating.

  • skyline385skyline385 Member Posts: 564
    Originally posted by cnutemp
    Didn't swtor have 200+ maxed at launch?

    SWTOR had tons of tiny servers at launch. I am expecting the same here. You can not possibly buy 120 Mega-servers for a F2P game.

     

    Originally posted by Torgrim
    Yawn!!!


    10/10 comment. Where would be without comments such as these...

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  • tom_goretom_gore Member UncommonPosts: 2,001

    So can someone who likes western MMOs give me a lowdown on what's "teh shit" about Blade & Soul. According to all information and media I've seen it looks exactly like all the other Korean MMOs since Lineage.

    • Weird Asian themed player races and monsters.
    • Bazillion flashy colourful effects to trigger epilepsy in every combat.
    • No clothes on female models.
    • Male models look like 14-year boys.
    • Oversized weapons.
    Can you give me ONE reason to be excited about this game?
  • tadams2tonetadams2tone Member UncommonPosts: 59

    So far I'm finding it quite fun.  It is a theme-park.  It basically feels like Tera done right.  The classes feel fresh and unique, combat is fun, the environments and character models are quite nice.  The character customization is some of the best if not the best I have ever seen.  It's also very optimized, it runs flawlessly if you have a decent rig.  I don't know, if you are bored and enjoy these types of games (the dreaded eastern games) give it a shot.  Cruise over to BnS Dojo for install guides etc.  The language barrier can be a little frustrating but if you pick one of the English heavy servers there are plenty of players to help you.

    Just a warning, if you are not VIP the queues are HUGE right now.  The good thing, though, is that since the VIp supscription option only costs about 1.50$ usd.  <3 China!

  • goboygogoboygo Member RarePosts: 2,141
    Originally posted by tom_gore

    So can someone who likes western MMOs give me a lowdown on what's "teh shit" about Blade & Soul. According to all information and media I've seen it looks exactly like all the other Korean MMOs since Lineage.

    • Weird Asian themed player races and monsters.
    • Bazillion flashy colourful effects to trigger epilepsy in every combat.
    • No clothes on female models.
    • Male models look like 14-year boys.
    • Oversized weapons.
    Can you give me ONE reason to be excited about this game?

    No you pretty much nailed it.

  • TrashcantoyTrashcantoy Member Posts: 827
    Originally posted by DMKano
    Originally posted by Trashcantoy

    Today marks the start of the Open Beta for Blade & Soul in China (first country to launch). The game opened with 120(!) servers, all of them with long queues. Wow.

    Source: http://www.mmoculture.com/2013/11/blade-soul-120-servers-not-enough-to-handle-official-launch/

     

    (yes, 120 is a big number even in a vast country as China)

    Such a misleading title.

    1. Open beta is not launch

    2. Massive initial interest does not mean success

     

    120 servers - how many players can each server handle concurrently?

     

    Massive success would be if @ 1, 3 and 6 months post *actual* launch if they are still adding new servers.

     

     

    All fair, but "massive initial interest" would be a very boring title ;) also something that will take a while to dissapear since every server has a crazy queue.

    Like another poster said, it feels like an action oriented themepark done right. The last part is something that is very rare. Let's hope it stays that way because we all know how much it can take to alienate a playerbase.

    MMOs currently playing: -
    About to play: Lord of the Rings Online
    Played: Anarchy Online (alltime favorite) and lots of f2p titles (honorable mentions: 9Dragons, Martial Heroes, Dekaron, Atlantica Online)

  • ThomasN7ThomasN7 87.18.7.148Member CommonPosts: 6,690
    This needs to come to the Xbox One and the PS4. I would play this.
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  • NorseGodNorseGod Member EpicPosts: 2,654

    1981 called, they want their cheesy tough guy name back.

    Blade and Soul ArrrRRrrrr

    To talk about games without the censorship, check out https://www.reddit.com/r/MMORPG/
  • MikehaMikeha Member EpicPosts: 9,196
    Really looking forward to this game.
  • DamonVileDamonVile Member UncommonPosts: 4,818
    I don't like games that don't have a trinity system ( this one kind of does...), but I do like Asian games and this style of combat. So I'll be checking it out once it launches and see how I feel. I doubt we'll be seeing it any time soon though.
  • KabulozoKabulozo Member RarePosts: 932
    B&S looks cool, but what I want is news about Lineage Eternal. NC promised to show news this year but nothing happened so far.
  • NonderyonNonderyon Member UncommonPosts: 189
    Originally posted by tom_gore

    So can someone who likes western MMOs give me a lowdown on what's "teh shit" about Blade & Soul. According to all information and media I've seen it looks exactly like all the other Korean MMOs since Lineage.

    • Weird Asian themed player races and monsters.
    • Bazillion flashy colourful effects to trigger epilepsy in every combat.
    • No clothes on female models.
    • Male models look like 14-year boys.
    • Oversized weapons.
    Can you give me ONE reason to be excited about this game?

    you don't have to...F2P, when it comes out just try it and you are the one who can tell enjoy it or not.

    for my case, i like the style and what able to know from game videos(combo system...etc.)

     

  • holdenhamletholdenhamlet Member EpicPosts: 3,772
    Originally posted by skyline385

    I have seen images and videos but is this game as boring as Tera?

    In Tera, every enemy after a few levels had the same attacks. Like literally the same attacks, i am not even exaggerating here. Anyone can clarify this for me? Is there a problem like this in B&S?

    This really isn't true.  TERA has the most diverse animations and attacks for mobs of any themepark I've played.  

  • SephirosoSephiroso Member RarePosts: 2,020
    Originally posted by tom_gore

    So can someone who likes western MMOs give me a lowdown on what's "teh shit" about Blade & Soul. According to all information and media I've seen it looks exactly like all the other Korean MMOs since Lineage.

    • Weird Asian themed player races and monsters.
    • Bazillion flashy colourful effects to trigger epilepsy in every combat.
    • No clothes on female models.
    • Male models look like 14-year boys.
    • Oversized weapons.
    Can you give me ONE reason to be excited about this game?

    Not sure why you put "weird" in front of Asian themed player races and monsters

     

    Every game has a bazillion flashy colouful effects in combat

    Every game has no clothes on female characters

    You actually got the male character one right.

    And every game has oversized weapons.

     

    Originally posted by holdenhamlet
    Originally posted by skyline385

    I have seen images and videos but is this game as boring as Tera?

    In Tera, every enemy after a few levels had the same attacks. Like literally the same attacks, i am not even exaggerating here. Anyone can clarify this for me? Is there a problem like this in B&S?

    This really isn't true.  TERA has the most diverse animations and attacks for mobs of any themepark I've played.  

    Dude quit lying to yourself. Tera has like 20 unique mob types, the mobs are recycled more in tera than in any other game i ever played its rediculous. They all use the same attacks within mob types.

     

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  • LoktofeitLoktofeit Member RarePosts: 14,247
    The Great Anomaly aside, hasn't "success in China" historically been a good indication that westerners will not like it?

    There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
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  • GoldenArrowGoldenArrow Member UncommonPosts: 1,186
    Originally posted by Loktofeit
    The Great Anomaly aside, hasn't "success in China" historically been a good indication that westerners will not like it?

    Aion, Tera & Lineage 2 all rather popular in the west aswell.

    The biggest issue is that when a game comes from east to west it gets effed up by this "WESTERNIZATION PROCESS" and we end up with game that's core is broken and ends up being something completely different from the original version.

    Also because of the "WESTERNIZATION" the content patches come 6 months late to the west causing  the game to get more content even slower.

     

    18million users with 2 million concurrent at launch are crazy numbers by any margin. It would be foolish NOT to bring this game to west.

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