Lol, weird vendetta against Webzen is weird. Particularly the inclusion of a glassdoor page that really doesn't have much to do with anything other than furthering your personal crusade against Webzen and share former employees' sour grapes with a broader audience than might normally.
The Review has nothing to do with the way Asta is run that office is in charge of the Game for US and EU so i think it's worth mentioning it also says falling revenue and apparently you can look that up it's also mentioned in the review if you click show more there is more to that review i haven't looked up this falling revenue because i can't be bothered i am just posting what i know and what will obviously happen and if you cared about the game this would bother you too even the state of the game at the moment isn't great.
You mean the falling revenue that is actually an increase in revenue of 225% Year over Year? The guy lied. See the thing is Webzen is a public company so their financials are released.
Webzen
3Q15 3Q14 2Q14 Quarter over Quarter Year over Year
i wanted just the dublin office figures that is the office in charge of these servers if that office is losing profit them servers will probably go i am not sayng it's going to be like that but just saying if they have falling revenue don't expect much effort and cost being put into Asta it's already showing they are understaffed and have rushed this when something gets rushed it's not being taken care of and saying it';s open beta when they are no longer doing any wipes and people have spent like 200 dollars is laughable .
Sorry blue i know you like this game and i do as well it just got in the wrong hands.
I honestly have nothing against Webzen.
so do you think Webzen will do this game justice or ruin it ?
I think they will allow for the developer to continue to do what they do within the business model that makes since for them, Webzen the publisher. As all publishers do. If it does not make fiscal sense then they will shut it down. If it generates enough ROI then sure, they will support it. It is a business. Not a charity. If the business is there, players spending money and being active, then yes they will allow for more development and expansions and content same as any publisher does. The question remains if enough players will stay around to make it worth their business wild. Only time will tell with that one. On a positive note I have seen more ads for it lately.
I wouldn't expect anything productive to come out of the office that is in charge os the US/EU servers you read that recent review on glassdoor they have already shown they are understaffed and it seems like it's not a great place to work.
Like i have said before i have seen private servers get more attention than what Webzen are giving this game if you can't see that they are just putting as little effort in as possble then you must be used to this type of service i am as well when i used to play gpotato games i am seriously getting de ja vu.
They got this cheap to try and bring revenue to the falling revenue which is mentioned it that review i don't know how bad the dublin office is but i doubt they are investing much into Asta and it's showing.
Did you work for Webzen previously and get fired or know someone that did? You seriously have a vendetta against them - the more you post the more obvious it becomes that this is personal with you and directed specifically at Webzen. Why not discuss the gameplay or start a new post titled "Why I hate Webzen" ????
Did you work for Webzen previously and get fired or know someone that did? You seriously have a vendetta against them - the more you post the more obvious it becomes that this is personal with you and directed specifically at Webzen. Why not discuss the gameplay or start a new post titled "Why I hate Webzen" ????
No actually this is my first game i have played that they have published but i have heard things over the years while playign FTP games i was willing to give them a try because i thought why not and they might be different from what i had heard but i guess not, i wonder if buying gpotato was a bad idea.
I have been round so many FTP games i can see where this is going i am just trying to save people some money because there will be some who will regret what they spent and you can say serves them right for spending that much but when a company allows a person to pend so much on a game they should offer a better service have they shown you any of the new content that is coming and the stuff that is being devoloped on i am sure they are dieing to show them because we know they have level 60 content but what about past 60 content.
You know they are probably working on trying to get this 60 content out quickly as possible but there will still be problems still not fixed that people will ask for.
Not only that but it looks like you were wrong about the US and EU server locations.
[Information Request] Server Location
23-01-2016, 04:31 PM
Hi Guys - I did search the forum first but can't find real answer
to this so where exactly is the location of the NA and EU server.
Please tell me the exact location (NA - Dallas TX etc.) so I can test my
ping and choose which server best for me and maybe use some ping
booster. Coming from SEA region player.
The NA/US server is located in California. And the EU server is located Germany. That's about exact as I can get. ^_^
well the server uses UTC time and that is basically UK time because my time matched with the servers time which will make sense if they are being run by the Dublin office for working hours.
Does this game have PvP at some level you cannot avoid ?
Unlike so many of the MMOs coming out of Korea, you are never forced to PvP. Personally, I like PvP, and often venture into PvP enabled zones in ESO, but it is on my terms. I decide when I want to PvP. ASTA is the same, you always have a choice. That said, this game won't devolve into a gank-fest anytime soon. The attraction of this game is its strong PvE, and the players it is attracting are in it for the PvE.
Man either your lying or never played it. Its already a gankfest and as proof go to the game board and read the threads on this. The game is faction lopsided so its really bad. And the community is always fighting about it. The ingame chat is filled with swearing and fighting all the time. The community has got so bad that its becoming one of the worse i've ever seen in a game that's still only in beta. So many people have quit already. You must have never played this game or are looking to get more people sucked in to this mess.
Blue hardly posts negative about Asta but i brought this up as well but i think people just think there is that crazy lady again moaning. lol
Actually that was not my post he was responding to look again
I have voiced concerns about the game. My review which will be posted by this Sunday will go into detail those concerns. Yet I do like the game. So what? go post positive posts on a thread about a game you do like! Instead of just more negative. Which we have way too much of on this site as is.
Like i said to anyone thinking about trying this game just go look at the really ugly threads on the game boards over the pvp ganking for your self. I'M not making this up.
OR, since it is free - try it out. There has been on the US server a camping gankfest by a guild that is known for doing things like this in every game they touch. Good thing is they always move on after a month or two. WebZen has been making changes to help fix the issue, but there are some design issues that allowed for this behavior to happen that need addressed as well.
As far as ingame chat filled with swearing and fighting all the time, I have never seen this and I play daily. The community IMO is one of the better and more helpful ones that I have seen in a while. The few times I have seen a racist or really nasty chat start it has been quickly shut down by the community. I can only speak for US server. If your gameplay differs than mine, can't help you there.
I am more worried about people who don't use punctuation than some one who has spent 200 dollars playing the game. It may be some ones cup of tea. Just not yours.
People wonder why we get bad games and service i am partially to blame from when i first started playing them i was gullible at one point.
If you scroll down to the bottom of Webzen's website it says what time it uses and it's UTC time which is same time as UK i just went to check so will post link to save you time.
People wonder why we get bad games and service i am partially to blame from when i first started playing them i was gullible at one point.
If you scroll down to the bottom of Webzen's website it says what time it uses and it's UTC time which is same time as UK i just went to check so will post link to save you time.
You are not understanding. The Webzen Main site server is hosted in Dublin. That is the portal for all their IPs. If you log into a game then you are sent to a server located in an area that is served by that region. As an example. In the USA you are playing a game hosted on the San Mateo,California servers. If you are in Taiwan you are placed on a server in Taiwan. This is common practice for games. Do you understand? Or shall I break it down further with links and a server map breakdown.
So that probably means that the Dublin office is responsible for all the games on that website i imagine there staff is pretty short it even says in that review people were expected to do jobs of positions that weren't filled for no extra pay and them positons stayed empty and even what they say about the games exactly describes the games on their website.
So that office must be in charge of all these games like rapllze and flyff which came with the sale of gpotato i wondering if that was a bad buy now i suppose it depends how much they paid for it but they no longer have Allods probably couldn't afford to keep it so my.com took it and hosted the servers instead.
gpotatos office used to be in Dublin aswell it just came to me then i wonder if it's the same office. lol
I don't know if this if east or west but maybe their games don't do well in the west i don't know i haven't played any of their other games.
You have a weird obsession with Webzen.. They're really not a bad company considering all they do is F2P games, there's so many worse ones out there.
I actually like how they handle the free to play. You are right there are some really bad ones on the market. Their games, may not be earth shattering awesome, yet are decent and you can realistically play them all for free.
Completely agree with you mate, the games aren't ex-subscription/B2P models but they're generally eastern games brought to the west and I'd trust Webzen to bring these kind of games out over any other publisher atm.
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Did you work for Webzen previously and get fired or know someone that did? You seriously have a vendetta against them - the more you post the more obvious it becomes that this is personal with you and directed specifically at Webzen. Why not discuss the gameplay or start a new post titled "Why I hate Webzen" ????
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I have been round so many FTP games i can see where this is going i am just trying to save people some money because there will be some who will regret what they spent and you can say serves them right for spending that much but when a company allows a person to pend so much on a game they should offer a better service have they shown you any of the new content that is coming and the stuff that is being devoloped on i am sure they are dieing to show them because we know they have level 60 content but what about past 60 content.
You know they are probably working on trying to get this 60 content out quickly as possible but there will still be problems still not fixed that people will ask for.
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OR, since it is free - try it out. There has been on the US server a camping gankfest by a guild that is known for doing things like this in every game they touch. Good thing is they always move on after a month or two. WebZen has been making changes to help fix the issue, but there are some design issues that allowed for this behavior to happen that need addressed as well.
As far as ingame chat filled with swearing and fighting all the time, I have never seen this and I play daily. The community IMO is one of the better and more helpful ones that I have seen in a while. The few times I have seen a racist or really nasty chat start it has been quickly shut down by the community. I can only speak for US server. If your gameplay differs than mine, can't help you there.
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If you scroll down to the bottom of Webzen's website it says what time it uses and it's UTC time which is same time as UK i just went to check so will post link to save you time.
http://www.webzen.com/
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So that office must be in charge of all these games like rapllze and flyff which came with the sale of gpotato i wondering if that was a bad buy now i suppose it depends how much they paid for it but they no longer have Allods probably couldn't afford to keep it so my.com took it and hosted the servers instead.
gpotatos office used to be in Dublin aswell it just came to me then i wonder if it's the same office. lol
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