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The western falacy that ArcheAge failed in Korea
Let's put it to bed once and for all.
http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/11/13/archeage-wins-big-at-korea-game-awards/
If this is failure then i guess they would like more of it.
President's Award (best game of the year) just one of the three awards voted by fans.
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How does winning some awards for "Planning and Scenario" (whatever that even is) and graphics equal a game of success?
The proof is in the subscribers and community response, not a sideshow awards show which gives out awards for social responsibility.
What does winning awards have to do with the game failing or not? The game has few PLAYERS in Korea.
Also, one of the awards is "social responsibility" which it won for changing its model so it becomes more popular in other countries instead of just giving up on the game and closing it down.
The game is a hybrid and in Asia they usually want it straight (hard grind or full sandbox) so something that started out as a themepark drove away sandboxers and then turned into a sandbox drove away themepark fans. It is what it is and I think it is worth a try from my perspective
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Its #12 of mmorpg's and #35 in total according to gamenote.
It was only two paragraphs, but just in case you missed it, here you go.
"Not only did Jake Song's sandpark take home awards in two categories through the show (planning and scenario, graphics), it also took home the big prize of the night as the best game in show."
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There's also a mention in the article that in Korea, the game is perceived as not doing very well. It's not a Western perception, it's just a perception.
That said, given the ridiculous hype surrounding the game, it seems likely this is yet another case where it would be impossible for the game to live up to the expectations of the developers, fan and industry talking heads.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
That award would actually mean something if we would know with other games where at the show. When I was a kid I once won a gold medal. I was the only one in my age group, so kinda was not hard at all
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For example
WAR got best MMO from a lot of magazine in 2008. It is dead now.
This website gave the best MMO of E3 2011 to defiance. Not sure with other MMO where there, but that game is not a succes.
So awards does not equal succes
I purposely chose to not mention it because the competition was such hits as Age of Storm and Monkey King Online. (Those memorable games heard of around the world)
So yeah, way to take my post out of context. Insecure about your own intelligence are you, son? You'll be able to defeat online forum legends like myself.. some day.
But there there's this:
http://mmofallout.com/xl-games-layoffs-coming-says-report/
The article listed here was merely 2 months from the awards. So, sorry to say, but awards != success.
As of September, the game was a financial failure. Did the awards help to resolve this? Will Russia help to solve this? Will North America help to solve this? I don't know, but the general consensus I've seen is that there are many, many, issues with the game, including balance issues, etc. which contributed to it's failure in Korea.
All that said, Korea and North America are entirely different beasts. What fails miserably in Korea won't necessarily fail at all in North America, and could actually be a huge financial success.
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If the trend continues I don't see any AAA MMORPGs not being overhyped in the coming years. So many of us gamers are looking for the next big thing, we are going to lie in hopes of convincing ourselves that the next game is going to be the one. So much overhype the last few years and it rarely lives up to it. With that being said, I don't learn from my mistakes and I am really looking forward to ArcheAge.
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problem number one, you consider what works on korea will work here, like most guys love to say here aion and tera did not go well.
another one is arche age was not that well in korea hence why they hit F2P pretty soon after launch
and last AA is taking too long to launch here with means when we get it a lot of people will already be busy with another game, the good thing is ESO did failed to keep most people hooked on it so if AA did launch next week they would get a some good number of players to at least try.
I also forsee a new kind of problem, since trion will be hosting the english version, they have a serous lack of paying methods to use or is a credit card or is paypal, so unless they open more paying methods they will be lsoing a lot of money. With come on guys the main thing for F2P work is not the unlimited trial thing you can do here, is methods for the player choose on how to play.
That's the spirit!
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
Hehe, I do have a good feeling about this one though. I haven't been in an Alpha/Beta that I have enjoyed this much in a long time.
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this^
people forget that SWTOR also got rewards. Hey it got MMO of the Year reward when it first came out...
its meaningless.
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