Hugely Popular MMO Blade and Soul Gets Western Release Date

The character build features are very in depth. The game is very pretty, lots of sexy things to look at. However, you have to bid for your loot in a dungeon/raid run. Your bidding against other players for reward items. When you have paid/bid for said items you must have keys/unseal charms to open the boxes. Many dungeon runs early on drop loot boxes but you will need the keys/unseal charms to open. If you run out of keys/unseal charms you have to buy them or craft them, or run dailies to get them. This gives the game a very "grindy" feel. It also makes you feel like your constantly paying to get at your "loot rewards". The costumes and vanity items are beautiful and the combat system is easy in my opinion but fun. You won't be able to keybind some of your main skills because those are set and you will have to get use to a very "different" type of playstyle with this regard. If you like grinding, doing dailies, grinding up professions etc. Then this game is for you. If you don't mind having to pay for unsealing charms and keys to get out your loot rewards then this game is for you. I do like some of the game features. I think the "floaty" flying in the air is different. It takes some practice however to get the hang of it for traveling and getting to areas that are sometimes challenging to get at. Anyway I am interested to see how well this game does once it has fully released.

I played the beta and it's exceptional all around. (the closed beta last weekend), I got a little into chapter 2, it was great fun.

I also did the devourer raid.

I just don't know why they don't make a server for Western gamers when the game is hyped like 6 years ago. Now, it may be too late. People are swarmed with much more polished next-gen MMOs

lol. I remember when this game was announced what feels like 10 years ago.

Yay! Finally.. :P

FINALLY!!!

Only played as a KFM in CBT 2 so far and it was pretty good, better than TERA's pseudo action point and click system imo.

This game is in dire need of some polishing...

Thank you Gamespot for the beta key for last weekend close beta. I really enjoyed playing as the Blade Dancer class. I'll likely play at release to max out this class, go through story and dungeons.

I'm sort of stuck on that premium membership stuff. I didn't mind the gem store in GW2, because it was cut and dry, but they have membership levels and the like.

Problem is, outside of Asia, the MMO market has collapsed.

F2P MMOs have never been in less demand.

Get rid of this rubbish video player GS, gash doesn't even come close to describing how bad it is!

inb4 NCsoft abandons the eu fanbase and gives the game to gameforge

this was already outadetes when terra and Age of Wushu got released in the west ... Blade and Soul was supposed to be a big hit 6 yearsa go ... its save to call it a fail now

I remember reading about this game six years ago. I coudn't wait, so I started to play on some buggy, laggy private server in 2012. I was sooo hyped for the full release. Now... now I don't give a f**k about this game. Sorry, NCSoft. It's too late.

It seems like NCsoft is pumping out 2-3 mmos a year these days.

Whats with this horrible news system where I can just scroll down through all the news?

im just glad Nexon didnt have this. Nexon is horrible

Yeesh! Games in general have a penchant for the melodramatic, but that trailer was way over the top.

Doesn't look like this is my cup of tea, but I'm happy for others who are into this sort of game. If nothing else, it's always nice to have more options.

Yayyyy. I think...