Blade and Soul NA beta hinted at 2015

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TLCBonaparte wrote on 2014-08-16 01:54

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In the West, options are pretty scares when it comes to choosing a martial arts themed mmo. There are some great options out there already, with titles like Age of Wushu/Wulin and Ruble Fighter, but the upcoming mmo, Blade and Soul is certainly looking to be a welcome addition.
The Western localization of Blade and Soul has been in development for quite some time with NCSoft, who responsible for the lion's share of Korea's leading mmo games, including Aion, Guild Wars, Wildstar and the Lineage series.
NCSoft have turned up in force at Gamescom this year and, although there are no official statements from the devs, reports from the hall floor ar that they've targeted 2015 for the Blade and Soul beta for Europe and North America.
According to fans on the Blade and Soul fansite, Blade and Soul Dojo, the closed beta for the Korean mmo will focus heavily on PvP as the game will be aiming to get a reputation as an eSports-worthy mmo in the west with tournament play and a freemium business model.

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Despite the PvP focus, there are murmurs of servers being split between PvP and PvE. At present, the plan is for these to be accessed via a Chinese client. However, if PvP is a focus, it would make sense to find a more local option, in the interest of maintaining a good quality netcode.
Although 2015 is still a long way off, it's great to know that there's already a focus on bringing the mmo West. Now, all we can do is wait.

http://mmo-play.com/rpg-games/blade-and-soul/news/blade-and-soul-beta
Aubog007 wrote on 2014-08-16 02:21

Not my thing, i don't know why people like it so much though.
TLCBonaparte wrote on 2014-08-16 02:57

Quote from Aubog007;1240718:
Not my thing, i don't know why people like it so much though.

I think you just answered your own question :P
Ashikoki wrote on 2014-08-16 04:50

These games get localized so late that they're no longer flashy and ahead of their time anymore...
Kurayami wrote on 2014-08-16 06:30

Nice how about pso2 now.. sega pls
There's nothing wrong with the jp version + english patches, I just have friends who dont want to go through all that trouble but still want to play
Kouki wrote on 2014-08-16 07:21

Most of my excitement for this game is kind of gone, especially after seeing how expensive some of the outfits are on KR/CN servers. :( Well I'd still try it out, probably.

Quote from Kurayami;1240773:
Nice how about pso2 now.. sega pls
There's nothing wrong with the jp version + english patches, I just have friends who dont want to go through all that trouble but still want to play

I would have played with you, but now we can't even play without using a proxy or something after the DDOS thing. :( So I've given up until/if they make an official NA/Global/whatever version.
Syliara wrote on 2014-08-16 08:24

Quote from Aubog007;1240718:
Not my thing, i don't know why people like it so much though.

To each their own. I liked the combat system but it gets boring pretty easily.

Quote from Ashikoki;1240747:
These games get localized so late that they're no longer flashy and ahead of their time anymore...

I took matters into my own hands and played the CN and JP servers so Im pretty burned out on Blade and Soul. Even if it got the long awaited NA release I'm not even sure I would want to play it anymore since I have played the game like 5 times over by this point.

Quote from Fran;1240783:
Most of my excitement for this game is kind of gone, especially after seeing how expensive some of the outfits are on KR/CN servers. :( Well I'd still try it out, probably.

I would have played with you, but now we can't even play without using a proxy or something after the DDOS thing. :( So I've given up until/if they make an official NA/Global/whatever version.

A lot of the outfits come from boss drops and certain rng situations in game where you dont need to spend a cent, but of course they come with a 30 day time limit. Honestly if its a pay to play model I will end up spending way less on it then if it were free to play simply because you have no reason to spend money in a pay to play model like they had for JP.

DDOS thing? I havent been on the JP server in a few months due to disinterest, but did something change?

Also, on the topic at hand. Their window of hype has closed, at this point it might be more detrimental for them to bring it to NA and I see no real point. I might try it in NA but its a lot less appealing to me now since I already played it so much.
Kouki wrote on 2014-08-16 08:33

Quote from Nui;1240792:

DDOS thing? I havent been on the JP server in a few months due to disinterest, but did something change?

Also, on the topic at hand. Their window of hype has closed, at this point it might be more detrimental for them to bring it to NA and I see no real point. I might try it in NA but its a lot less appealing to me now since I already played it so much.

Yeah, ever since their servers were DDOSed recently, there's been a sort of a weird thing, where foreign IPs cannot connect to the game anymore unless you use Time Warner... they say it's not an IP block, but well it's similar. Apparently the only reason Time Warner can is because of some technical thing about it having access to something in Japan's internet? I don't know. >.< It feel like an IP ban to me, even if it technically isn't. I just don't want to rely on a proxy to play a game, so I gave up on it.

On-topic:
I would probably be hyped for it on release, since it'd be new and all... but I also wonder if I'd lose interest over time just like with any MMO. XD Though if it's good enough, I might occasionally jump back like I do for other games.
Syliara wrote on 2014-08-16 08:41

Quote from Fran;1240796:
Yeah, ever since their servers were DDOSed recently, there's been a sort of a weird thing, where foreign IPs cannot connect to the game anymore unless you use Time Warner... they say it's not an IP block, but well it's similar. Apparently the only reason Time Warner can is because of some technical thing about it having access to something in Japan's internet? I don't know. >.< It feel like an IP ban to me, even if it technically isn't. I just don't want to rely on a proxy to play a game, so I gave up on it.

On-topic:
I would probably be hyped for it on release, since it'd be new and all... but I also wonder if I'd lose interest over time just like with any MMO. XD Though if it's good enough, I might occasionally jump back like I do for other games.

Have you tried with something like WTFast? Honestly with foreign servers I only used them with WTFast due to the really slow speed you got without it. Even with it the lag was pretty evident and lag with this game is probably one of the worst. The combat system heavily punishes bad connections and requires u to be able to time ur moves accordingly. Especially with something like pvp where its not an ai where you can improvise.
Aubog007 wrote on 2014-08-16 11:53

Quote from TLCBonaparte;1240724:
I think you just answered your own question :P

My previous post was made in extreme haste and partial agitation, basically i was implying and asking "what makes this different than the rest?"
I was in no way mocking the game itself, just poor wording, and the agitation lies in the fact that i overly hear about this game a lot to the point that it gets bothersome.
Limes wrote on 2014-08-16 15:19

About fucking time we heard ANYTHING about this game. They've been sitting on it ever since they fired like half of the team for it in 2012.

Frustrates me because I've literally been following this game since like 2009, back when they had a beta that was so poorly received that they scrapped the whole thing and started over again. And now they've been sitting on the Western release so long that a new game, Black Desert, was completely developed and announced for Western release. And my guess is that it'll drop before Blade & Soul does, since they've been simultaneously developing an English language version of the game alongside the Korean version.

And honestly, Black Desert looks better. NCSoft better get their shit together quick if they want any sort of an audience to still give a damn about this.