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Archeage employee fights with a user

May 16th, 2013

This week must be a horrible time for XL Games, the developer and publisher of Archeage.

A user who could not find how to do User Authentication for Archeage visited XL Games office to solve the issue. However, there have been arguments between a user and an employee. An employee from Human Resource team fought with the user while they are talking and insulted him. The user recorded all the conversation and uploaded it to a community. It soon went spread among several Archeage communities and became a huge issue.

They fought each other because the user showed violent actions because the employee did not willing to help him to solve the issue. However, most gamers from Archeage communities said it is XL Games fault because they cause the problem first and not treated a user as their customer when a user visit the office instead swear at him.

As a result, Jake Song, CEO of XL Games issued an apology and punished some employees. The employee who fought with the user is fired while some of his superiors at the team are suspended and received the salary cut. XL Games promised they will provide better customer service.

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Wemade sets the highest revenue record

May 15th, 2013

Wemade generated $53.3 million in revenue during the 1st quarter of 2013. It is 71% up from the previous quarter and the highest record for the revenue for a quarter for Wemade. The main contributor is Windrunner, Android based mobile game.

61.5% of the revenue is from Mobile games. Windrunner recorded 10 million download in very short time and was ranked #2 for the revenue in Global Google Play chart. Windrunner for LINE recorded 7million download as well. Touchfighter and Everytown have been popular, too.

Wemade plans to release 10 more mobile games during 2nd quarter and 30~40 until the end of the year.

 

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Next TERA is recruiting developers

May 14th, 2013

Bluehole Studio is preparing for the next TERA. The studio announced that they are recruiting developers who will participate in developing the next title.

The studio has innovated PC MMORPG with console-level graphics and free-targeting system in TERA. They are preparing the next evolution with their new project with the creator from TERA and Vindictus.

The studio is recruiting developers and artists through various filed such as Server/client programmers, UI designers, Background artists etc.

 

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RADA Studio was shut down by CJ Games

May 10th, 2013

RADA Studio, which CJ Games invested 100%, was closed.

RADA Studio was established by Yong Hyun Park who developed TERA in last November. With the studio closed, MMORPG project also has been canceled as well.

According to CJ Games “Yes, RADA Studio is closed. We proposed them to develop mobile games, but they do not want. So we both agreed to close the studio.” CJ Games invested about $723,000 so far on the studio.

Because CJ Games sold all shares of SOFTMAX who is developing MMORPG ‘The Was of Genesis 4’ in April, 2012 as well, people are questioning that CJ Games might consider scaling AAA MMORPG business down.

A person from CJ Games said “Our online game business strategy has not been changed. We have an internal MMORPG project, too.”

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BarunsOn Games stepping into mobile game universe

May 10th, 2013

BarunsOn games held media conference on 9th to reveal their plan to step into Mobile gaming market and reveal the mobile game line-up. BarunsOn games have developed PC online games for 10 years such as Last Chaos and Laghaim.

With entering into the mobile game market, BarunSon games revealed 8 mobile games. They are all developed by itself or through subsidiary companies – Nitrozen, Fingernet, and Naogames. They will add more mobile games near future up to 14 to 15.

MMORPG Project A is also in development. They predicted 1st CBT might be started within this year and OBT for 2014.

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