It's Official! Blade & Soul Coming to the West...By Winter!
This past week has seen a lot of news from NCSoft, both official and unofficial if you count the anonymous Carbine employee posting on Reddit about WildStar's future. Interestingly, one of the employee's claims at the onset of these discussions was that Blade & Soul had an English version of the game already in internal Friends and Family beta. While this "employee" presented nothing other than their own word at the time, today we received confirmation that this is in fact true.
On top of that, today NCSoft made it official. Blade & Soul will be launching its western version into closed beta this fall and full launch this winter. At launch, the game will be available in the US and EU in English, German, and French with full voice overs in each language.
Blade & Soul is an action-based martial arts MMORPG set in a fantastical Ancient Eastern world, with a story of revenge and vengeance that follows traditional wuxia literature. You’ll be battling enemies with a strategic- and combo-based combat style and channeling your inner chi to perform supernatural Windwalking abilities such as gliding through the air, running across water, and sprinting up walls.
Tomorrow (May 21st) at 10 AM Pacific, the dev team will be streaming the game and answering questions from viewers on their official Twitch channel. Be sure to tune in and check it out if you've been waiting for this free to play MMORPG for years now.
Check out the official announcement for all the details!
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I've played Black Desert and guarantee it will flop harder than Elder Scrolls Online.
Wait I'm Australian, I'll get even worse ping to America than I do to Japan
F*ck me.
but now i stick to black desert kr.
bns? no thank you. its already too late
What is going to happen is they use a closed "beta test" to make people purchase founders packs; not to test the game (remember this is a 4 year old game), but rather gauge player interest and maximize the money they make.
What is going to happen is the majority of players with interest in the game have already played in Asian clients. And since they have already invested time and even money into those games, they will not bother starting over. And why should they when oftentimes the content is severely delayed compared to those clients?
People talk about the hype being lost, the hype was lost cause nobody knew when it was coming out; but im pretty sure people are gonna want to play this and jump back on board the hype train now knowing it is coming out. It's still a good game, idk why people say its late when the games that came out recently still are not that great.