By choosing three of the ten basic skill types, players are essentially able to create their own class tailored to their own unique style of gameplay. After that, the choices are up to the player from where to go, to why, and what actions to perform.ĪrcheAge offers four unique races which possess their own innate qualities with an additional ten skill trees that create up to one hundred and twenty class options. Players start on one of two continents: Nuia, home of the elves or Harihara, home of the Ferres. Set in the fantasy world of Erenor, players are sent out on a journey of their own choosing. You can check out the Kakao quarterly report and conference call on the Kakao investors relations page.ArcheAge is a free-to-play, hybrid fantasy/sandbox MMORPG brought to you by Trion Worlds. Free-to-play when?įinally, Norse-themed cross-platform MMORPG Odin: Valhalla Rising, releasing in Korea in Q2/Q3 and in Taiwan in the second half of the year, had over 1.5 million preregistered users over its first five days, which has "outperformed our expectations." Kakao touted its in-depth storytelling and "high level of immersiveness" and art style as reasons for its good reception. Kakao will also add a battle pass for the game in the future.įor Kakao's non-F2P games, the "expectation level was quite significant" for Elyon's initial launch in Korea, but because of COVID-19, PC cafes weren't as open for business as might be hoped, leading to its revenue "showing a downward stabilization." Oh, and being buy-to-play was also a "constraint" when it came to bringing in new players. The call also said that the number of characters would increase to 50 by the end of the year, but that might have been only in Korea. Kakao said that the goal for Eternal Return: Black Survival would be to increase the number of characters in the game to 40 in July in Korea, and globally by the end of the year. ArcheAge creator Jake Song is still heading up the new game, which was described as having a "high level of in-game freedom" and using Unreal Engine 5, which will provide "exhilarating graphics." One is a mobile game described as a "hardcore MMORPG based off of Unreal Engine 4" and scheduled for release in 2022.īut more important to most players in the West is the sequel to ArcheAge, which is currently scheduled for a 2024 release. In the conference call that accompanied the presentation, Kakao said that its subsidiary, XL Games, is also hard at work on a pair new games. Kakao Games revealed its Q1 financials yesterday, and, while there's not too much to talk about from a financial standpoint - revenue is down a little bit quarter-over-quarter, while up year-over-year - the developer and publisher has quite a bit coming down the road that's sure to interest players.
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