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Flagship Studios' HellgateTM: London Celebrates The Most Successful Online Korean Launch In Three Years

San Francisco, CA (April 11th, 2008) - Flagship Studios today announced that its action role-playing game Hellgate: London has become the most successful online video game launch in Korea of the past three years with over 1 million accounts registered within the first two weeks of its open beta test. Hellgate: London is the first online game in over three years to use a monthly subscription business model.

After launching the open beta on January 15th, Hellgate: London quickly rose to the ninth most played online game, fifth most popular RPG and most popular online beta game in PC Cafes*, with over 1 million accounts. Hellgate: London was released commercially on February 22nd, and achieved record sales in its first week of presales.

"To become the most successful launch in Korea for over three years is an incredible achievement," said Bill Roper, CEO of Flagship Studios. "This milestone wouldn't have been possible for us to achieve without the incredible support of our publishing partner, Hanbitsoft, and our dedicated community in Korea. We look forward to expanding the Hellgate universe and building upon this success in the future."

"Flagship Studios are well aware of how the Asian market operates very differently to the Western territories" said Alex Kim, CEO of HanbitSoft, "By listening to players' feedback and through constant updates to the game, Hellgate: London will continue to be an incredible success throughout Asia."

Hellgate: London combines the depth of role-playing games and the action of first-person shooter titles, while offering infinite playability with dynamically generated levels, items, enemies, and events. Whether online or off, a player creates a heroic character, completes quests, and battles through innumerable hordes of demons to advance through experience levels and branching skill paths. A robust, flexible skill and spell system, highly customizable appearances, and a massive variety of randomly generated equipment allow players to create their own unique hero.

For more information please visit the official Hellgate: London site at www.hellgatelondon.com
*According to Gametrics and Game Report

 

lolwut?

rofl

I did not see that one coming. What does HG:L have that appeal so much to the asian market?

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Originally posted by skinnys
I did not see that one coming. What does HG:L have that appeal so much to the asian market?

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They liked both iterations of Diablo too, btw. So it does make sense that they love HG:L since it's really Diablo 3 in many respects.

Hellgate is da bomb and the version they are launching with is much better than the version we launched with.

Originally posted by skinnys

I did not see that one coming. What does HG:L have that appeal so much to the asian market?

Apparently nothing.

The reality of HG in Korea. 

www.flagshipped.com/2008/03/25/hellgate-in-korea-failure-in-the-form-of-a-chart

Looks like it almost lasted 2 months?

Originally posted by HoldMe

 

Originally posted by skinnys

I did not see that one coming. What does HG:L have that appeal so much to the asian market?

 

Apparently nothing.

The reality of HG in Korea. 

www.flagshipped.com/2008/03/25/hellgate-in-korea-failure-in-the-form-of-a-chart

 

Looks like it almost lasted 2 months?

 

I wouldn't believe anything that comes from a flagshipped website. Those people are nothing more than a handful who feel they got ripped off somehow. So they go out of their way to flame FSS. More cheese with your whine ?

Can you even read?

The chart was in KOREAN!

And you still think they faked it?

I bet its cause of the sense of the attack's impact in combat.