Posts Tagged ‘FPS’

Warface will be free to individual in Korea

May 3rd, 2013

Nexon, the publisher for Warface from Crytek, held Media conference for the Korean service. Nexon satisfied with the result from OBT because every aspects of the game show positive results.

According to OBT analysis, 47.4% of OBT participants enjoyed both PvP and PvE while PvE only user is 28.7% and PvPer is 23.9%. They also choose each class almost evenly – Rifleman 25%, Medic 25%, Engineer 24%, Sniper 26%.

PC Bang occupation rate is getting higher. Users who play the game at PC Bang could get benefits such as accessible to various weapons without Vendor Points, +20% more XP, Game Points and Vendor Points, Instant Resurrection Coin for PvE mode. As a result, 40% of the total participants have played the game through PC Bang.

Nexon promised they will keep the nature of high quality classic FPS game and add in-game items that never affect to the game balance. Therefore, Nexon will charge to PC Bang only and let individual gamer play the game free.

In Russia, more effective weapons in the game could be purchased in cash. However, Nexon think it will not work for Korean gamers. That makes Nexon to choose a different commercialization method in South Korea with Crytek supports.

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World of Tanks reaches 10,000 CCU in Korea

January 8th, 2013

World of Tanks broke the 10,000 CCU record in Korea since it started the service from the 27th of December. The next goal is having the game installed at more than 5,000 PC Bang in Korea. It is one third of the total number of PC Bang in Korea.

About transferring accounts from abroad, Wargaming Korea will allow users to transfer their accounts at abroad to Korean servers at the end of January. The company hopes that 2 months should be the enough time that beginners would catch up experienced users and could match against. The company estimates the number of abroad accounts created by Korean users would be around 45,000. The number of registered Korean users for Korean service has reached 150,000 so far.

World of Tanks is also preparing for e-Sports in Korea as well.

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Conflict over Crossfire is over

December 10th, 2012

The conflict between Smilegate and Neowiz Games is over. Neowiz Games and Smilgate agreed to extend the contract for Chinese service until July of 2016 on the 7th of December. About the dispute over the trademark and DB, Neowiz admitted those are the properties of Smilegate and withdrew the lawsuit.

Crossfire service for Korea will be operated by Smilegate directly with DB provided by Neowiz Games. In addition, Smilegate has gained entire publishing rights for Crossfire for the rest of the world with the trade of Chinese service to Neowiz Games. Neowiz Games will support Smilegate technically when they publish Crossfire to other countries.

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5 trends in Chinajoy 2012

August 3rd, 2012

Chinajoy was held from the 26th to the 29th of July. We summarized the event as follows.

Large scale games

The scale of Chinese online games becomes as large as China itself. Shanda Games put 100 million Yuan (US$15.7 million) for the initial development finances into developing ‘Age of Dawn’, Diablo-like action MMORPG.

Dragon Swords from Netease, Saint Seiya Online and Swordman from Perfect World are all big name MMORPGs. Because Chinese online game market is saturated with the full of MMO games already, only the big name games could get a chance to succeed.

Western online games is flooding to China

The9 devoted its booth entirely to ‘Planetside 2’ from Sony Online Entertainment with 20vs20vs 20 PvP zone. Kongzhong also demonstrated World of Tank from Wargaming.net only at the booth. Netease contribute the half of the booth to games from Blizzard entertainment such as ‘WOW: Mist of Pandaria’, ‘Starcraft2: Heart of the swarm’, and ‘Diablo3’. Shanda Games presented RIFT as well.

A guy from Shanda Games said “Since Chinese gamer’s level has been going up high, Chinese publishers are interested in publishing major online games from abroad. It becomes as important as publishing in-house games.”

Diversity of genre

Chinese developers are trying to create games with different perspective. Since most Chinese online games were eastern style fantasy MMO only, games became sick of them.
Black Gold from Snail Games has the unique world that combines the world of fantasy and punk together.

‘Dragon Sword’ from Netease, ‘The exorcist’ from Kunlun are a few example of games with unique worlds.

Non-typical shooting games

Since Crossfire is dominating Chinese online FPS market and more than 20 TPS online games are competing in China, non-typical shooting games were introduced such as ‘Penguin Warfair’ from Snail Games, Chang-sin-gi and T-game(逆战)from Tencent.

Go Mobile

EA, China Mobile and lots of small-mid size mobile game companies were presented in Chinajoy 2012. The reason that there were so many mobile games in Chinajoy 2012 is related to the increasing population of smartphone users in China. There were more smartphone users than PC internet users.

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Doobic co-developing Shadow Company with Valhalla

July 23rd, 2012

Doobic Game Studio cooperated with Valhalla Game Studio to establish a joint-venture company called VALHALLA&DOOBIC. Itagaki Tomonobu, previously worked for Tecmo Team Ninja, is working for Valhalla Game Studio. He was the executive producer of Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive series.

Both companies will co-develop games based on IP they have. The first co-project is ‘Devil’s Third’ for PC online, which is a US$44 million project. It is a stylish action FPS game revealed at E3 2010. The second co-project is a console version of FPS game called ‘Shadow Company’.

Shadow Company will be published through CJ Netmarble for Korea and Nexon for Japan, North America and Europe.

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