I don't even understand why they are trying to expand into the Asian market when they haven't even established themsevles in the North American and European markets. To me it seems like they are biting off more than they can chew, but I guess in the end it is up to them to make that decision.

okay, your journal is great but you've made a critical mistake.

I should point out that Taiwan is not a country , It is just one province of CHINA.

According to ruleset of UN, it is absolutely the fact, I think you must pay attention to it.

It is better that you revised your log.

Your work is greatly appreiciated.

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Originally posted by Desalus
I don't even understand why they are trying to expand into the Asian market when they haven't even established themsevles in the North American and European markets. To me it seems like they are biting off more than they can chew, but I guess in the end it is up to them to make that decision.

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Their North American beta is imminent, leading to a projected "winter" release. Their Asian development is slated for 2006 -- ie. further down the road. The groundwork has to be laid now, just like WoW had a concrete deal made in China 6-12 months before its NA release.

The big news in this dev log is the Russian angle, which really shouldn't be a surprise considering their ties with Akella over the years, and hiring five mission designers. That's huge for Pirates of the Burning Sea -- their first missions at E3 2005 were only 'placeholders.'

They've come a long way in the past six months and have a long way to go before release. Beta should rock.

Why the Asian market? That is thinking ahead because there is where large numbers of players are.

But this Dev Log gives a bit more information as they are almost ready for the first betaplayers build. Now i wonder how the European market will be handled? I don't read any information about that...

Politics can do strange things: Taiwan is a Province of China but untill they both fix the end of civil war problems we can safetly say they are both different lands (It's a bit the same as the Netherlands and Belgium)

Tanwai ?
Is that the correct/local spelling for Taiwan ?

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Originally posted by foxpreacher

okay, your journal is great but you've made a critical mistake.

I should point out that Taiwan is not a country , It is just one province of CHINA.

According to ruleset of UN, it is absolutely the fact, I think you must pay attention to it.

It is better that you revised your log.

Your work is greatly appreiciated.

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Thanks for clarifying that up for us, but give it time, Taiwan has never wanted nor truly been a part of China realistically. It was of course where many democratic Chinese escaped to after the communists took over at the end of WW2 in order to form their own government which they have.

I would love to hear your justification for the chinese invasion of Tibet though. Is that a province also that they simply just reclaimed?

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Originally posted by Jorev

Originally posted by foxpreacher
okay, your journal is great but you've made a critical mistake.
I should point out that Taiwan is not a country , It is just one province of CHINA.
According to ruleset of UN, it is absolutely the fact, I think you must pay attention to it.
It is better that you revised your log.
Your work is greatly appreiciated.

Thanks for clarifying that up for us, but give it time, Taiwan has never wanted nor truly been a part of China realistically. It was of course where many democratic Chinese escaped to after the communists took over at the end of WW2 in order to form their own government which they have.
I would love to hear your justification for the chinese invasion of Tibet though. Is that a province also that they simply just reclaimed?

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I don't get why this company is trying to emphasize that its a PVP game when there is a 200+ reply post on their own website about what sort of ranking system is needed for PVP/Guild recognition, and the Devs won't touch it.

Right now this game appears to support instanced RvsR type combat, have some NPC/Faction recognition, gives some types of ammo unlimited supply, and in the big scheme of things there's no real reason to care if you win or lose a fight.

It shouldn't be too difficult to provide a guild based stat system (ala DAOC or other PVP games out there) if you are trying to recruit PVP guilds to your game. The PVP games that don't have ladders, rankings, etc end up losing those guilds because the debate over who's the top dog just boils into endless forum and screenshot finger pointing contests.

If you people won't support a ladder ranking system for your voluntary PVP because you're too scared of ticking off your PVE crowd, then you're no different than an MMO version of Sid Mier's Pirate game and you don't provide one of the fundamental things required to retain PVP guilds once they are tired of sinking "Captain Bob" for the 100th time.

I've been a supporter of this game and given it good word of mouth, but when you make death meaningless and give unlimited ammo then a PVP ranking system becomes critical for me to continue to give this game a thumbs up to other people in the community.