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RAN Online: Interview with Steve Tsao

DanaDana Member Posts: 2,415
in News & Features Discussion

Steve Tsao is the COO and President of IP Interactive. His company is hard at work bringing the Korean MMORPG "RAN Online" to the English-speaking market. Recently we had the time to ask him a few questions about his company and their product.

image MMORPG.com: As players reach the “end-game” what will they find there?

Steve Tsao: The end game for RAN is full of encounters that require large groups. Additionally, the game is heavily PvP and encourages inter-school rivalries. But ultimately, a game “end-game” is a function of how successful the project is, there are many “good” games out there with little to no expansion of new content. RAN Online being one of the most successful mmorpg’s in the world has a full pipeline of new content, monsters, quests, maps coming down for years to come, to support one of the largest gaming audiences in the world.  

You may read the interview here.

Dana Massey
Formerly of MMORPG.com
Currently Lead Designer for Bit Trap Studios

Comments

  • gameshogungameshogun Member UncommonPosts: 105

    hmm, sorry but I can't help but noticed that this 2005, whatever Korean Online Game worked in the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia, these games are imported to the US and/or Europe.

    RAN Online, another great game from Korea, been here in SEA for some years already.
    Westerners will enjoy it :)

  • fenrisbluefenrisblue Member UncommonPosts: 138
    yet another lvl grinding, player killing , bot infested, hacked , korean style game.no depth no soul no reason to actually play this game,.. the english isnt that great i have no idea what this guy was talking about when he said he had people translating it, may as well have had a program translating it , the only people who will enjoy this game have a lot to prove to other people and the other people are too weak to prove anything back...i hope you get a bigger car instead ...
  • Steve1Steve1 Member Posts: 1

    Hello,

     

    Thanks for the discussion on our game. We are actively working on the hacking and botting issues within the game. We have a fairly aggressive Game Master team tracking down and banning the hackers.

     

    The "soul" of the game will hopefully shine through once the translation work is finalized. Remeber, we are still in close beta, and that the version you are currently playing will be changed through the following weeks. The english in the game right now is very bad, but you will see the new changes in before march.

     

    Steve

  • SaydieSaydie Member Posts: 1

    'Hope everything will be fixed when open beta starts. I've been online in your game forums and the staff is quite present to answer each of the gamers' questions.

    Another good thing I've noticed is the part in RAN's forum titled "Hall of Shame" where banned hackers' names are listed. Quite kewl! image

  • plaaplaa Member Posts: 6

    Odd that on the MMORPG.com page.

    The first line has a type O "Steve Tsao and his company are had at work" on http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/setview/features/loadFeature/363/gameID/214

    However in your post above the "hard" is correct.

    I was just reading it and said to myself. If they can't make sure their promotional material is translated correctly they have a long road a head but I am sure this type O is just a copy / paste error.

     

    Plaa.

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