It´s under 30.000

Informer80

Those are the actual internet cafe charts in Korea.

ArcheAge is on 20th place with under 30k people playing it.

The game is fun for the first month, face it. After that the content gets repetitive and boring. I hope, Trion will cancel the EU/NA port and sell the publishing rights to some asia-specialized f2p publisher...

mcrippins

Not sure why anyone would *hope* a publisher drops a game. Perhaps it might be more successful in this market. I haven't played the game, and will definitely give it a shot at launch. I've come to learn that a game can still be good, even if the masses don't flock to it.

Phry

Originally posted by mcrippins
Not sure why anyone would *hope* a publisher drops a game. Perhaps it might be more successful in this market. I haven't played the game, and will definitely give it a shot at launch. I've come to learn that a game can still be good, even if the masses don't flock to it.

Its unlikely that it would be more successful in the west, although i do question its lack of success i korea, was under the impression there were a lot of games there, being in the top 30 would be a measure of success surely? but even so, its not a game i'd buy into, so i'd see it as a poor contender with so many other games on the horizon that are more suited to the western market

AtmaDarkwolf

Originally posted by Informer80

Those are the actual internet cafe charts in Korea.

ArcheAge is on 20th place with under 30k people playing it.

The game is fun for the first month, face it. After that the content gets repetitive and boring. I hope, Trion will cancel the EU/NA port and sell the publishing rights to some asia-specialized f2p publisher...

Not a fair assessment at all, being that the type of game they enjoy in korea is NOT the same we enjoy here.(Don't get me wrong, people from both places will enjoy each typeof game, but korean's are famous for flocking and excelling at games such as starcraft, moba's, etc. Its reall is a GOOD thing that archage hit 20th place in korea. Just thnk ofthe OTHER 100+ games that have MASSIVE player bases over there, yet are NOT on that list.

psiic

LOL sell it to SOE.. 

 

After Wizardry and Dragon's Prophet I have realized those morons will buy anything.

skyline385

Instead of randomly pointing out that it is 20th, maybe you can tell us what the other 19 games are? This list isn't even a MMO exclusive list by the looks of it and LoL, Dota 2 and Starcraft will be in the top. We don't even know what the other 16 games are.

You can even see a couple of FPS games there for crying out loud and another couple have a genre only definable in Korean apparently.

Biased thread? Who would have expected that on this site,,,

DocBrody

It´s over 9000

Phry

Originally posted by DocBrody
It´s over 9000

sounds a bit dragonball to me.. but you might be right

Kyleran

Several questions remain. How are these figures obtained, actual reporting or someone's best guess? Do they cover all cafes or only some subset like one specific chain or geographic region? How many people play it at home vs in a cafe?

With out this info, you can't get the full picture. Sure, it may come in number 20, but it might be number 5 compared to all MMORPGs, can't tell without a full translation of the list.

Vapors

for a country with 50 million people, 30k players aint that bad. For a fair review you should check how many koreans play other games in the meantime to compare isnt it right?

And whats your point beeing so negativ to ArchAge to say that Trion should drop it off, why not publish it here. It sounds like your bit scared of something @ op.

 

ReaperUk

Originally posted by Kyleran
Several questions remain. How are these figures obtained, actual reporting or someone's best guess? Do they cover all cafes or only some subset like one specific chain or geographic region? How many people play it at home vs in a cafe?

With out this info, you can't get the full picture. Sure, it may come in number 20, but it might be number 5 compared to all MMORPGs, can't tell without a full translation of the list.

Come to that, I can't read Korean. Can anyone else reading this thread? If not, how do we even know what this chart is showing at all?

Zornhau

It's not the number of people playing but the time played for that week by people using the internet cafe only.

Vandarix

Best information I could find on the subject.

http://www.mmogreport.com/features/1078-top-online-games-ranking-in-korea-oct-2013

SaintGraye

Originally posted by Informer80

Those are the actual internet cafe charts in Korea.

ArcheAge is on 20th place with under 30k people playing it.

What a disgustingly twisted method of presenting information. For someone with your username, you really ought to exercise more tact, not to count forthrightness. Here is a translation of the graphic above in English...

1. League of Legends

2. FIFA Online 3

3. Sudden Attack

4. Aion

5. Blade & Soul

6. StarCraft

7. Lineage

8. Dungeon Fighter

9. Eos (no idea what this one is...)

10. Warcraft 3 (most likely W3 DOTA)

...long story short, you present information taken from general nationwide PC usage (not internet cafes alone), in a foreign language on a predominantly English-speaking board, posting a screenshot rather than a link to lend credence to your claim (http://www.gametrics.com/Rank/Rank02.aspx), from a website that is in its own beta-state, while neglecting to compare ArcheAge against other RPGs alone (presumably as that would require you to purchase a subscription to Gametrics), all to lambast a title most of us have never played? For that matter, have you even played it?

I'd say you're a fool, but it appears you beat me to the point.

Xthos

I don't know that I will like AA whenever it finally gets published in NA, but I damn sure wouldn't wish it is dropped, considering it is one of the few mmos coming out that I am considering.

 

Fangrim

Originally posted by mcrippins
Not sure why anyone would *hope* a publisher drops a game. Perhaps it might be more successful in this market. I haven't played the game, and will definitely give it a shot at launch. I've come to learn that a game can still be good, even if the masses don't flock to it.

Haha,The games the masses don't flock too or stay at (because the majority of them buy every single mmo that launches) are the ones that I usually enjoy the most.They are usually ones that are harder and you need to work at them and not action combat based.

InporylemQQ

Originally posted by SaintGraye

Originally posted by Informer80

Those are the actual internet cafe charts in Korea.

ArcheAge is on 20th place with under 30k people playing it.

What a disgustingly twisted method of presenting information. For someone with your username, you really ought to exercise more tact, not to count forthrightness. Here is a translation of the graphic above in English...

1. League of Legends

2. FIFA Online 3

3. Sudden Attack

4. Aion

5. Blade & Soul

6. StarCraft

7. Lineage

8. Dungeon Fighter

9. Eos (no idea what this one is...)

10. Warcraft 3 (most likely W3 DOTA)

...long story short, you present information taken from general nationwide PC usage (not internet cafes alone), in a foreign language on a predominantly English-speaking board, posting a screenshot rather than a link to lend credence to your claim (http://www.gametrics.com/Rank/Rank02.aspx), from a website that is in its own beta-state, while neglecting to compare ArcheAge against other RPGs alone (presumably as that would require you to purchase a subscription to Gametrics), all to lambast a title most of us have never played? For that matter, have you even played it?

I'd say you're a fool, but it appears you beat me to the point.

I don't see how the ranking has anything to do with well anything, I'm more interested of the fact that all their bad decisions cost most of their players.

xAPOCx

Originally posted by SaintGraye

Originally posted by Informer80

Those are the actual internet cafe charts in Korea.

ArcheAge is on 20th place with under 30k people playing it.

What a disgustingly twisted method of presenting information. For someone with your username, you really ought to exercise more tact, not to count forthrightness. Here is a translation of the graphic above in English...

1. League of Legends

2. FIFA Online 3

3. Sudden Attack

4. Aion

5. Blade & Soul

6. StarCraft

7. Lineage

8. Dungeon Fighter

9. Eos (no idea what this one is...)

10. Warcraft 3 (most likely W3 DOTA)

...long story short, you present information taken from general nationwide PC usage (not internet cafes alone), in a foreign language on a predominantly English-speaking board, posting a screenshot rather than a link to lend credence to your claim (http://www.gametrics.com/Rank/Rank02.aspx), from a website that is in its own beta-state, while neglecting to compare ArcheAge against other RPGs alone (presumably as that would require you to purchase a subscription to Gametrics), all to lambast a title most of us have never played? For that matter, have you even played it?

I'd say you're a fool, but it appears you beat me to the point.

koboldfodder

You do not have to like the list, the fact that it exists and is correct speaks for itself.  There are a certain number of people in Korea, and they cannot play ALL the games but here is a list of what they are playing.

 

Starcraft, yes the original starcraft, is still MASSIVE in Korea.  They put that game on television.  People playing starcraft in starcraft tournaments.   Korea is a strange place.

 

You can clearly tell ArcheAge is a Korean game the instant you run it.  That fact that it is wayyyyy down on the list of games Koreans are playing is not good news.  This game looks like it will do well in Russia, maybe very well.  I don't think it has a chance in America.

 

Oh well.

zevni78

I've heard all sorts of rumors, such as AA losing 90% of its players over the last few months, bugs galore, radical changes to pander to the vocal minority that caused the majority to leave, which I see happening in a lot of mmos, (COS, Mechwarrior) and Trion can't get it in a good enough shape as XL didn't make something competitive for a demanding western market.

 

No idea what to make of all this, but my interest in the game has lessened for 2 reasons, the purer indie sandboxes and EQN that will lack a lot of the tired themepark features AA has, and other Korean MMOs that just seem more interesting and groundbreaking, such as Black Desert.

vzerov

Originally posted by SaintGraye

Originally posted by Informer80

Those are the actual internet cafe charts in Korea.

ArcheAge is on 20th place with under 30k people playing it.

What a disgustingly twisted method of presenting information. For someone with your username, you really ought to exercise more tact, not to count forthrightness. Here is a translation of the graphic above in English...

1. League of Legends

2. FIFA Online 3

3. Sudden Attack

4. Aion

5. Blade & Soul

6. StarCraft

7. Lineage

8. Dungeon Fighter

9. Eos (no idea what this one is...)

10. Warcraft 3 (most likely W3 DOTA)

...long story short, you present information taken from general nationwide PC usage (not internet cafes alone), in a foreign language on a predominantly English-speaking board, posting a screenshot rather than a link to lend credence to your claim (http://www.gametrics.com/Rank/Rank02.aspx), from a website that is in its own beta-state, while neglecting to compare ArcheAge against other RPGs alone (presumably as that would require you to purchase a subscription to Gametrics), all to lambast a title most of us have never played? For that matter, have you even played it?

I'd say you're a fool, but it appears you beat me to the point.

Actually i find the list is quite informative. If it was like, say, number 5, then maybe i would want to know what the first 4 games are, but its number 20, and the population playing it is 0.45%, does it really matter what the other 19 games are?

Sovrath

Originally posted by Informer80

Those are the actual internet cafe charts in Korea.

ArcheAge is on 20th place with under 30k people playing it.

The game is fun for the first month, face it. After that the content gets repetitive and boring. I hope, Trion will cancel the EU/NA port and sell the publishing rights to some asia-specialized f2p publisher...

Other than financial, I can only imagine that is a good thing.

I don't know you and don't know the things you like but the things "I like" and that I find of worth are usually not the most popular.

Though my interest in ArcheAge is at this point academic, all this means to me is that the game is actually good.

Then again, all I want from a game is a world to explore, an interesting character and sieges.

Wizardry

Originally posted by mcrippins
Not sure why anyone would *hope* a publisher drops a game. Perhaps it might be more successful in this market. I haven't played the game, and will definitely give it a shot at launch. I've come to learn that a game can still be good, even if the masses don't flock to it.

Yes i might be stereotyping but i do follow trends and seems to be Koreans tend to prefer Esporting more or gaming with bragging rights.

I prefer my MMORPG to be a friendly atmosphere where the game brings players together,not to compete or pvp but to make accomplishments in the game.SO if AA can achieve this,it most certainly would do better here.

There are a few serious mistakes i feel they are doing and one big one is the housing castle idea,that screams of alienating a HUGE number of players ,that is not smart game design.Everyone in a game likes to feel a part of the game no matter they belong to a guild of 500 or 5.

FlyByKnight

Blade & Soul is #5 on the list and the last time anybody from NC Soft or Team Bloodlust uttered one letter about the US release was Dec 05 2012.

Sovrath

Originally posted by Wizardry

Originally posted by mcrippins
Not sure why anyone would *hope* a publisher drops a game. Perhaps it might be more successful in this market. I haven't played the game, and will definitely give it a shot at launch. I've come to learn that a game can still be good, even if the masses don't flock to it.

Yes i might be stereotyping but i do follow trends and seems to be Koreans tend to prefer Esporting more or gaming with bragging rights.

I prefer my MMORPG to be a friendly atmosphere where the game brings players together,not to compete or pvp but to make accomplishments in the game.SO if AA can achieve this,it most certainly would do better here.

There are a few serious mistakes i feel they are doing and one big one is the housing castle idea,that screams of alienating a HUGE number of players ,that is not smart game design.Everyone in a game likes to feel a part of the game no matter they belong to a guild of 500 or 5.

I don't know what the housing castle thing is but that might be smart game design depending on one's taste.

I don't mind players not having access to everything if they don't work for it.

So, could you elaborate on the "housing castle idea"?

Sal1

Is ArcheAge an open world PVP game?