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ArcheAge Going F2P In South Korea
AmbrosiaAmor
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http://www.mmoculture.com/2013/05/archeage-reports-claim-korean-server-to-announce-f2p-change/
http://www.inven.co.kr/board/powerbbs.php?come_idx=2626&l=560
According to foreign reports, XLGAMES is ready to announce a full conversion to a Free-to-Play model for the Korean server in June. The Korean server is currently on a Pay-to-Play (P2P) model, with the China and English servers’ models unconfirmed still.
The reports claim that while ArcheAge is a consistent title in the top 5 rankings of games played in Korea’s internet cafes (or PC bangs), its overall market share is still unable to topple rivals such as Aion and Blade & Soul. The game is also finding it tough to break into the top 10 games for overall market share.
Posted as a rumor at MMOCulture... but considering the original source came from Inven... chances are that XLGames are going to make the switch in June. I hope TRION decides to make the game B2P over here. I would really love to get a collector's edition of the game if possible.
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With RIFT going F2P in the US, I doubt they'd debut AA as B2P or P2P.
Really, really hard for any P2P to survive these days...
Are Aion and B&S F2P in SK?
Very interesting, thanks for posting.
Considering that western MMO's don't typically do well in Korea, this may indicate that the game is tuned towards a more western gaming mindset and could end up being quite well received in the US and EU.
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At this time I believe that any mmo launching in NA/EU need's to either be btp or ftp.If a game launch's ptp in those territories,I believe they're signing the game's deathwish.As in losing major people the 1st 3-4 month's and being forced to ftp.
With the recent success of heavy to moderate btp/ftp hits,I think we can see where this is going for the short term atleast.GW2/TSW/Swtor/AoW/Tera/Neverwinter and Rift are some moderate to big competition for games like Wildstar/TESO/AA and so on.Any of those 3 going ptp would be disastrous imo.
The market may very change,but for the near future I see btp/ftp as the only viable choices.Not saying I don't want ptp,just where the market look's to be atm.
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Yeah it seems next to impossible. I remember there were still about a dozen games still using the P2P business model towards the end of 2011 (games released post 2006 for the Western market). Now I think it is down to only 2-3 games. Only a handful of NCSoft games are P2P over in South Korea. The only game still using the P2P business model post 2010 is Blade & Soul at the moment; in South Korea.
http://en.thisisgame.com/2013/01/08/archeage-choose-a-hybrid-payment-method
From this list it didn't seem that ArcheAge would have to worry about competition but I guess it isn't doing so hot.
http://2p.com/50f3b059c01dc5968dc16fe3_1/List-of-Korean-MMORPG-in-2013.htm
On the contrary my friend...
Rift could of went F2P because they knew they were going to do a subscription model for AA... just a thought
I'm here, and willing
I'd rather pay a sub......maybe just not 50$ though lol
Aion and B&S are P2P in SK. I am 95% sure even Lineage 1 and Lineage 2 are P2P in SK. Basically all NCSoft MMOs in SK are P2P.
If it is F2P in Korea and doesn't launch in the US/rest of the world as F2P I can see that hurting sale because people (like me for example) will just wait around for it to go F2P.
Personally, I'm a bit over subscription games and recently cancelled all of my subscriptions and I'm preferring B2P (GW2 and TSW) and F2P (Neverwinter, Planetside 2) games.
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I really hope so, also I'd be very happy for it to be F2P here.
If they go F2P, hopefully they will stick to Aion's Truly F2P model. Although, I think I would prefer B2P to help curb cheaters and spammers.
Cheaters / Spammers will never go away, but at least if an account gets banned there is some form of monetary loss with B2P.
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If they make it B2p. I wont play it, simple as that. I'm not throwing 50-60$ digital box money at any developer.
B2P w/o trial = scam.
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So blaa blaa blaa, the game is doing good as a box and sub game but the publisher can ring even MORE money out of players as a F2P. So tell me something I don't know.
Another nail in the coffin for hardcore gamers while the casuals and tire-kickers cheer!
Rift went f2p because soon TESO and Wildstar will be releasing and pulling players away from them so they need to fill in the void. No way to compete with them if Rift still was sub only.
I prefer sub only games myself, to avoid the give me everything free crowd.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
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Rift went f2p because it is the last attempt to redeem the population lost. It was either that or shut down the servers.
i dont think north koreans get to play games.
I dunno, that is the exact same thing that people were saying about TERA when it started to lose popularity in the East before launching here. I'm not saying the same thing will happen here with Archage, I'm just saying there were people saying word for word about Tera what you just said about Archeage.
it looks like archeage won't be going f2p, but instead will add a "demo" version, something like the starter edition in wow.