I wonder what the beta as announced here for the 15th is referring to then http://www.webzengames.com/pr/prView.asp?cPage=1&PrsIdx=18 ? Was this just the beta for Korea?

Oh well... the usually development delays I suppose... it's just a little odd, because they made that statement just a few weeks before the 15th, as if they wouldn't have known whether it would be delayed or not by then?

I agree with the author that this game is beautiful. I would really like to play it, but I won't until someone tells me if it has many of the hallmarks of other Asian-made games (these things exist in other games, of course, but not to the same degree):

Massive grind;

Limited variety of content;

Goldfarmers and bots control the servers;

Exploits galore;

PvP gankfest.

If webzen is doing a good job of avoiding these pitfalls, I would love to hear about it and would seriouely consider playing the game.

Mind blowingly beautiful.

You have to hand it to the Koreans (and perhaps the Asians in general) for the style they put in thier games.   I was really impressed with Lineage 2, the graphics and the game play.  

The graphics looks good but frankly it's cookie cutter stuff. All the korean MMO's have this cheesy, impractical, amine-ish look which just bores me to tears. Fightin an ice golem in stillettos? Gimme a break.

Definitely not for me.