I honestly thought they were going NCsoft lol. Anyways,  I'm looking forward to a beta for this. I'm still on the fence about Archeage since I haven't played it. But from every video it's like "OMG that's cool!" and then "Really?.....hmm" lol hope they have a good english launch. Good luck XL

WOW,

wow.  just wow!

in my wildest dreams for archeage, i was hoping for one of two companies to get pub rights:  turbine or trion.  and blam.  i CANNOT wait for this game to really hit the western world.  i haven't been this excited about a MMO game since ff11 was announced.

Originally posted by Pivotelite
TRION...well, that certainly was an unexpected but welcome surprise!

I agree. Good choice.

Originally posted by vtravi
Hmm 30 levels of tutorial. How many players are gonna quite before they get through the tutorial. I only need about an hour to figure out how a game works. This seems excessive

Depends on how interesting the so called tutorial is. Why can't the tutorial be considered part of the game just like the later levels.

They just need to make it interesting.

Originally posted by RefMinor
I may need to hunt out a happy clown face for my avatar now.

lol I thought that was your happy clownface. :p

Originally posted by vtravi
Hmm 30 levels of tutorial. How many players are gonna quite before they get through the tutorial. I only need about an hour to figure out how a game works. This seems excessive

He said like a tutorial, not 30 levels of tutorial. I think it makes perfect sense in that today's MMO gamer is used to directed content, so they've designed the opening experience in such a way to explore the options available to the player (like a themepark). We've seen all the complaints about Age of Wushu, and it's lack of a guided experience in the beginning.

A decade ago MMO players were used to jumping in and making their own way, that isn't the case today.

Originally posted by BadSpock

Originally posted by vtravi
Hmm 30 levels of tutorial. How many players are gonna quite before they get through the tutorial. I only need about an hour to figure out how a game works. This seems excessive

I agree 100% and this is the one thing that really, and I mean REALLY turns me off about AA - at least based on hands on from others.

Hopefully we can skip it all starting at level 2 and not be ridiculously gimped.

 You might say that WoW has 90 levels of tutorial until you get to the end game which is where people ultimately want to be.  30 levels seems reasonable to me.  And GW2 end game started at level 1. so i am guessing you prefer archage to be 100% sandbox...which i don't think it is.

The artists that made this game are to be congratulated.  As an artist myself, I am greatly impressed with the beauty of this game.  In some cases, it is breathtakingly beautiful.  I don't think I've seen any other game achieve better, and certainly not surpassed what the artists for Archeage have done.  If my computer can run it with that much beauty pouring forth from the screen, I will be doubly impressed.

I am so looking forward to this game.  Not to get on the hype bandwagon, but it looks good....DAMN GOOD.  Waiting is painful, like being 7 years old and Christmas two weeks away painful. 

Not to rain in on people's parade but what makes Trion such an outstanding publisher?  They've published one game so far and it's had less than average success.

The other game they were publishing, End of Nations is no longer being developed... or has had severely delayed development.

That other game they're working on Defiance isn't out yet.

Crytek's Warface (which they're publishing) isn't out yet.

They don't really have an outstanding record as a publisher.