The official forums for the upcoming cel-shaded anime action combat MMORPG SoulWorkeris now live! Gameforge has just opened the main platform for SoulWorker community gathering.

Information on the upcoming western release have been revealed as well. The western version of SoulWorker is now confirmed to be remaining as a free-to-play game, following its Korean counterparts. The open beta will be playable through steam AND its own client. There will be no English voice acting and will instead have subtitles over the original Korean voices. The subtitles will include English, French, German, Spanish, Polish and Italian.

SoulWorker will not have singular servers per region and will instead have servers in multiple countries to provide better connection.

Here are the servers names with their cor

 

Aion is a Korean MMORPG that has been around for quite a few years now, but for quite a few reasons it has not managed to attract that many players.

 

I have recently heard from many Aion EU players that they are happy about the server merges because at least during peak time the servers can get up to 2500-3000 players online. 2500-3000 to me seems nowhere like a satisfying amount for a server population and remember that this is after  quite a few servers have been merged. Remember, this is only for the western regions, because in Korea, it is one of the most popular MMORPGs. 

 

The NA servers are somewhat similar in terms of player base size to EU and I keep wondering why people are happy about having a population of a few thousand players. If you look at

Aion is an MMORPG that has been struggling from plenty of so-called hackers, who used various free and premium programs to gain an advantage over others.

The NCSoft-built Korean game sadly lacks proper anti-cheat measures and many of the European players decided to play on the NA servers because of this. It was not uncommon to see players altering attacking speed values or simply playing without animations (NoAnim). This gave most of the playable classes a huge advantage in PvP fights and also noticeably increased the overall DPS in PvE.

The recent arrival of a new third-party DPS meter called aiDPSMeter was so good at spotting cheaters, that Gameforge began to accept it as proof when dealing with player reports. The Animation Speed mode of aiDPSMeter basically detects impossible animation