Rest in Piece. I'll wait to see how much pay2win they'll make this game, but most likely it will be as much pay2win as the other games that aeria games published.

yeah aeria games is horrible, p2w inc.

I was hoping we could elevate the debate here a bit more than on the other channels and comments sections I have seen so far.

First, let's be happy that BLESS got a EU/NA publisher so quickly, that means that we are potentially aiming at a release much sooner than what I thought it would be. Also, that probably means that the game will get published in EN and other europeans languages - meaning more players, more servers, more everything.

Now about Aeria, I do not see the point of flaming and acting like kids with comments like "RIP" or "P2W".
From all western publishers, they aren't the worse I think - I have played one of their games (no name here) and never had to complain. The only time I reached out to their customer support, I got an answer and a refund within a day or so. Anyway, not going to expand here but let's try to see the bright side rather than sentence this game to death upon an announcement - sounds too much like Minority Report to me... "We put you in jail now because one day you may do something bad".

If the game is good, I will play it. So far I really enjoy the KR OBT and whether this game will be F2P or P2P, I will give it a shot. I am honestly more concerned about where the developers will take that game in the coming year than who the fuck is going to localise and publish it for us so we have a decent ping and do not have to patch files ourselves.

Bless you all

50$ premium membership get 50% more exp and 2 random box maybe u get a horse xD
u want a shiny cat spend 100$

u want reineinforce ur weapon u want make it stronge just pay only 20$
each stone and u get stronger and u are Chuck The Pay2winner Norris

oh and you a costum for ur char.? pay 50$ 7 days, or buy box 10 unit to
get a permament dress unique looking for 10/30$ 25/55$

we areia games love to make people happy

this one fit better

Would it be worth it to draft a community letter/initiative to send to Aeria Games echoing that sentiment Vega?

Jesus Christ... is this real? OMG!!

Agreed on the EoS part, they actually turned a grind-cashshop-fest into a legit and customer friendly F2P game. The thai / KR versions of the game were rough to people's wallet afaik.



Great idea!

I have got a really BAD experience with the AG company, when they killed DK Online, that was really a great games.. if they would have spent enough resources to fix it... it could have became the successor of Lineage 2 but... well. they killed it from nowhere...


If they are going to publish it, i relaly hope that the contract is as a "publisher" only, so in this way they will not mess up all the other stuff they should NOT touch at all..

reddit.com/r/MMORPG/comments/4…north_america_and_europe/

Some comments from dev who responded in reddit:
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[–]Myzzrym

Hey there guys,

I was working at Aeria Games until very recently. To be honest, they have been trying to move away from P2W these last 2 years. Aura Kingdom and Echo of Soul cash shops are nowhere close to Shaiya for instance. Hopefully if they keep going that way we might get a non-P2W game for BLESS.

That being said... "Not to mention, Aeria has some shit servers" => I agree, we used to complain a lot about the servers ourselves. Probably has to do with the choice of data centers to start with. They are working on changing that, fingers crossed to get that by the time BLESS is out.
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[–]Myzzrym

I was in charge of Monetization for Aura Kingdom.

Thing that people don't realize is that teams change quite often. For instance, I only joined Aura Kingdom one year after the launch and got a lot of crap for what previous producers did.

In any case, to answer your question: It depends. Some people do care a lot about the game they work on, and try their best to both reach their targets and keep the game afloat. Some others are just here to do their job, so they don't really care that much.

On the bright side, Aeria has recently start paying much more attention to player experience, and by consequence "caring about the game" is slowly becoming a necessary thing for their producers, as opposed to it being "extra" work. On the downside... Well, once you have a reputation, shaking it off is very difficult (see all the comments here).

I'm not saying this reputation wasn't deserved. Hell, I've been working on Shaiya for a short while, I know how P2W it gets. However, I know the new management is trying to change their direction for the better, and it sucks to see their efforts being attack due to what the previous guys did.

Another thing that people fail to see is when they call on "greed". We aren't doing that out of "greed" - the company needs to make money in order to pay the servers, the employees and the external developers. What players don't see when they yell "THEY ARE KILLING THE GAME" is that most of the times we're trying to do exactly the opposite. If you make less money, your team becomes smaller. Your game starts to get less priority. Under a certain threshold, we have to close it. So no, we don't get anything (at my level) being greedy. We're simply trying to keep the best experience for the players who are here while not having to be forced to implement pay walls (instead often relying on the whales who buy the hated Mystery Box. We hate those too).
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We might actually see non p2w Bless. Lets just hope that they are doing it right this time.

*grabs BryanFury and spins him around with Lupus vigor* It's HAPPENING!!!!!!!!

@Nito

You make some great points in your post. Thank you for compiling everything together for those of us who are unfamiliar with the current state of the cash shop. I think my original suggestion may have missed its mark. I personally wouldn't want Aeria to change anything, just have them understand that we do not want a cash shop overhaul. But, if they jack the price up on my costume items... me and Aeria will have words!

@Dewulf

I really really really hope that everything in your post is true.

All in all, I just about peed myself with excitement at this announcement. I wonder if means we'll be getting translated lore soon *ponders* ... who do I have to bribe?

Aeria will want it's pound of flesh - er, money - but ... while I'm not thrilled with Aeria I'm familiar with it. I'm just glad for the chance to play Bless sometime this decade - since I'm too lazy to get a Korean account and join you guys.

I'm just surprised they were able to afford Bless after they shifted everything non-mobile off to the EU branch. Not that I've payed much attention to Aeria in the last year so who knows what changes they've made.

Definitelly, i know... but don't lay your guard down... we are speaking about Aeria... they murdered my dear DK Online.... sigh..

I wouldn't worry Nito... You often have very intelligent points and questions. Besides, there is still a TON up in the air right now. I think they have prepared themselves for the flood of questions. The main one being: "Are you making Bless P2W?"

Also, it's time to start obsessively refreshing the NA/EU official page.