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In an official news posted on ArcheAge’s website today, it was reported that a player of ArcheAge Korea caused a din at XLGAMES’ offices on 3rd May, kicking on the office’s glass walls and trying to enter the premises due to lack of support over his hacked account.

Of course, he was restrained by the company security guard. But according to voice records posted on an internet forum (here and here), the guard was also at fault for his aggressiveness, leading to XLGAMES apologizing to the player involved as well and promised to “enhance the training for security staff in the future”.

XLGAMES is also looking into an overrall review of the customer service procedures. The player’s ArcheAge account was apparently hacked several times despite being

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A wise choice indeed Jake Song!

Trion worlds, the creators of the successful MMO RIFT

have been confirmed to become the publisher for

the much anticipated MMO of 2013 Arche Age!

TRION WORLDS AND XLGAMES TEAM UP TO BRING HIGHLY ANTICIPATED ARCHEAGE® TO WESTERN MARKETSTrion Anchors its Global Platform Offering with the Premier Asian Developer

Redwood Shores, CA (Jan. 24, 2013) – Leading online games company Trion Worlds and renowned South Korea-based game developer XLGAMES have entered into a strategic agreement for Trion to exclusively publish and operate ArcheAge® in the West. Created by Jake Song, best known for his hit game Lineage, the highly anticipated ArcheAge is poised to be the most polished massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) coming out of Asia. Trion will host

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So after years of development and testing, the game is finally just about finished with the upcoming Open Beta over in Korea which means that for the US/EU were finally getting closer to the game being released down here.

OBT STARTS: Jan 2, 2013

Early character creation Dec 19 - Dec 30

Client download available: December 17, 2012

Source: http://openboard.kr/News/8628

So Instead of them using the KSSN system that's usually there, they will identify you with you providing info such as a mobile phone number, email address etc, this system is in place in accordance with the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc.

What they are wanting from players wanting to sign up is: DI, CI, date of birth, gender

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XL Games showed more of ArcheAge at the Tencent Games Carnival today.

A 14 minute playable demo of ArcheAge was available there as well as a new trailer.

(NOTE: The trailer shown was from earlier this year back in may)

Building houses doesn't seem as easy as it looks in the trailer itself

you're going to need help from other players (That's if they want to help you)

Hang gliding, swimming and more awaits in ArcheAge.

So take a look at the trailer and the gameplay demo below:

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At the tencent games carnival 2012,

XLGames' most anticipated MMORPG ArcheAge

showed off a brand new trailer.

(Whether it is for the game's launch is puzzling)

ArcheAge is also said to use CLOUD technology

to allow players to download the game as they play

in order to get into the game faster.

This makes the game more accessible to players as well

and makes the game easier to download for those on slow connections.

The trailer can be seen below.

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[Source] Over 20GB in size and set to increase with more content, downloading the ArcheAge client has always been a huge problem for those without a super-fast internet connection. Developer XLGAMES is intending to solve this problem via the rising cloud technology, where no client download is needed and players can immediately log in and play.

I am sure the Western gamers know about services such as OnLive and Gaikai, hence this cloud thing should not be a stranger. Since ArcheAge is an online-only title, it just makes sense to go cloud. In the future, ArcheAge’s tablet client will be using this technology as well. Yes, revealed for the first time, a tablet client is in the works!Continue Reading

I am very excited to say that ArcheAge is definitely going to be released to the NA and Europe. I am not sure why I had my doubts about it coming to the rest of the world (I guess I'm a cynical person), but I'm very glad my doubts have been proven wrong! XLGames’ Suk Woo Choi announced in an interview with Mmorpg.com (those lucky bastards) at E3 that they hoped to have ArcheAge live in Korea by the end of this year, and for ArcheAge to get to the NA by 2013 or 2014.

This is sadly, a very long time to wait, but it will most assuredly be worth the long wait. I doubt that another themepark+sandbox mmo like ArcheAge will come out anytime soon. Guild Wars 2 is really just a distraction to me until this beautiful game comes to the NA. It's weird to be so excited about a game that I haven't

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I'm just hoping people haven't yet forgotten about this epic mmo. I'm still hoping and praying it comes to the NA sooner than later. It's not even in Open Beta in Korea though so that hope probably won't come alive for a very, very long time. It's such a shame because I most likely won't be playing many mmos when I'm in college.
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Until CB4 underwater exploration in ArcheAge was pretty pointless. They added treasure hunting though, making it more wprth while to do. So get your scuba diving gear and your balloons ready so you can get that treasure and float it back up to your ship!

Here is the official video for the underwater gameplay.

And here's a more in depth, unofficial video of the gameplay.

Pretty fun looking, right? I wouldn't care if they hadn't added this feature because I would have still gone exploring underwater either way.

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Seiges only take place on the weekends and last for two hours. Each side can have 50 players, one side the attacking party, and the other the defending. Currently there is no benefit for owning territories, but XLGames did mention that later on there will be an area of effect around conquered territories and houes built in this area of effect will be forced to pay taxes to the owner of the territory.

The owner of the territory can be evil too if he/she wants to be and demolish anything and claim crops without any penalty. This is where sieges would come in really handy because if the people were to get upset because the current owner/owners of the terirory were being too cruel they would get the chance to have a siege and take the territory and run it in a more fair manner.

Here's a vi

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