Webzen America Closed Down and Gave up T Project
- Date: 06-09-2009 Views:
- KeyWord: Webzen,Mu Online,Red5 Studio,Webzen America,T Project,Huxley
- Summary: Webzen America, the American branch of Korea-based Webzen, has recently been confirmed to close down, which has hindered Webzen from entering into the North American and European markets.
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Webzen America, the American branch of Korea-based Webzen, has recently been confirmed to close down, which has hindered Webzen from entering into the North American and European markets.
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Insiders in the game industry disclosed on June 5 that Webzen America has already stopped operation since last year. And Webzen's top project Huxley targeting North America is now being served via NHN USA's game portal IJJI.COM, which may have something to do with the collapse of Webzen America.
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Actually, the closedown of Webzen America has posed an impact on Webzen's highly anticipated title - T Project in the overseas marketd. Since Webzen is not capable of paying more development fees for T Project, it has gave up its publishing rights of T Project in North America and Europe, and T Project developer Red5 Studio has replaced Webzen America to become the operator of T Project in these two territories.
With the strategy of "Entering the Global Market Directly" abandoned, and taking the operation of Huxley via NHN USA as the starting point, Webzen is expected to have all their coming games operated in the overseas markets via NHN.
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Pretty stupid how some people call this a WOW clone. I certainly understand that WOW is big in the US as the US have not evolved in the future mmo genre but do
understand that the art styles of Tera, Lineage 2, ZerA are very similar because it's KOREAN MODERN CONCEPT ART (fit in your head) just like WOW has very weird art styles, asians go for a very commercial and attractive look. I look forward to playing Tera since the gameplay looks wicked and the UI is plain and simple. If you are not into korean MMOs and only support games such as WOW then don't play. Though I'm sure TerA will set fire just like Blade & Soul will.
WoW is EQ clone its a fact do ur research if u think its not. And wow WAS the "shit" pre bc. Onyxia, Molten Core, BWL NAxxx 40 man raids were the BEST which made WOW the BEST MMORPG but since BC came it became a grindfest then blizzard decided 2 nerf the name 2 the ground ( no req to get into hyjal or black temple ) and now they just nerf'd the shit outa ulduar so GG blizzard 4 killing a great MMO but its not their fault its the QQing noobs that think game was 2 hard to play. Anyway Guild Wars 2 will kill WoW 
Facebook, haha. Is that what Sony really thinks? Sorry, but they are wrong. Of course WoW will *eventually* be dwarfed by *something*. Game technology keeps evolving, graphics, gameplay, etc. One day it will be taken over by something. But not by a Facebook MMO. I'm sure that someone at Sony has a daughter that is like "All my friends and I are on Facebook!" and that affects their thinking, but the reality is, that isn't the lauchpad for the next big thing, just because it is a social place and you already have an account. You can make an account at a new game within 60 seconds, it's not a big deal to do so. It doesn't have to be somewhere you already have accounts. Plus, you are using Facebook for different reasons than to play games. There are a billion people there that have no interest in MMO's. Are Sony exects that ignorant?
Its so good to live in 2009. Some online games have really good graphics and psp games are also getting better this year(I have the psp (hahahaha!!!!))
Happy happy birthday MMOsite!
a great article. your and my experience does not have much differences and i also like enjoying the game's sorroundings and doing quest with a group of people but having too much botters and cheaters really destroys my gaming experience.
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