[Revast]

Blade & Soul's OBT Set for 2011
“Blade & Soul's will definitely have its OBT this year” -NCsoft Director Jae-Sung Lee

NCsoft made an announcement about Blade & Soul's OBT date at a recent conference. Jae-Sung Lee, NCsoft's director, said "This year top quality MMORPG's will rule the market. Games like TERA, ArchAge and Blade & Soul will stand in the forefront." he then proceeded to talk about Blade & Soul's OBT saying "Blade & Soul will definitely have its OBT this year.”

NCsoft told us in the past that Blade & Soul's OBT would begin last year, but they ended up pushing it back saying that they wanted to make the game proper first! Instead of an OBT release for 2010 they handed us a demo at the G-Star 2010 convention and Decembers Soul Party private gathering. The Soul Party event contained game content up to level 40, showing people that developing was well on its way but they still left us hanging at the event, giving us no word on when the OBT would arrive.

With NCsoft's previous push back in mind many feared that Blade & Soul's OBT wouldn’t happen this year, but after Jae-Sung Lee said “It will definitely happen.” at this recent conference, all the worries seemed to fade away.

Translated by Yuan.
Source: ThisisGame.com

[Ghastly]

Yay! While we in the West will probably not get it this year, the fact that at least the open beta for Korea will be out this year that means that everything, or most everything will be known this year

Reveal all those classes and weapons already!

Funny how we went from hoping for a Western closed beta in the West from just hoping it comes out for Korea at all this year...
Wonder when the CBT will start then...., kinda sounds like the OBT will be far into the year, like Autumn or Winter...

[Revast]

I'm glad they are taking their time with the game! Last thing I need right now is another rushed MMO release, I've had about enough of those! Yeah, I'm pointing my finger at you FF14! I want a smooth, flawless release with little to no bugs and all the content in the world! Keep up the great work NCsoft, perfect this game for us!

[sifirifi]

OMG!!!! This is the greatest new I've received in this 2011!!!

We'll have to wait but as Ghastly said, all the content will be revealed >_>!!!

Thanks Yuan for translating

Thanks to all B&S Staff!!

[Ocean]

Go impatience

So i'm guessing if ti's gonna be an open beta doesn't that mean anyone from anywhere could join..or it'll be korean only :S??

[Fishcake]

Oh goodness, this is great :D! Even if its not for the west just yet, this means we will be seeing more gameplay from korean players ;____;! There's so many things I still wanna know about, which im sure will be answered within the year implying it doesnt get pushed back again

[Napsys]

and i
JIZZED
IN
MY
PANTS.

great news i guess.. still somewhat dissapointed that ill probably be playing this in 2012 for the first time >.>

gogo give us more infoooo!! yummy yummy

[Revast]

Ocean, on Jan 28, 2011 - 7:50 PM, said:

So I'm guessing if ti's gonna be an open beta doesn't that mean anyone from anywhere could join..or it'll be korean only :S??

They are usually set in the region the game is being developed in first, Korea in this case. NA/EU wont be getting their OBT till the game is localized. I could be wrong though, take this with a grain of salt. This is just what happened with Aion, NCsoft's most recent Korean MMO. NCsoft has yet to announce anything official about what regions Blade & Soul will be released in first or if it will be a global release, these are just assumptions.

[回し蹴り ★]

Revast, on Jan 28, 2011 - 7:19 PM, said:

I'm glad they are taking their time with the game! Last thing I need right now is another rushed MMO release, I've had about enough of those! Yeah, I'm pointing my finger at you FF14! I want a smooth, flawless release with little to no bugs and all the content in the world! Keep up the great work NCsoft, perfect this game for us!

LOL SQUARE.
Pretty much.

[soknife]

im sure for OBT they will reveal all classes, but maybe not for the first CBT.

but great news anyhow! ^^

[Ryochan]

In an earlier interview, they said they won't be localizing anything at all. Instead they will just do straight translation (like Yuan style). Keeping the story and everything original.

[Aelle]

Ryochan, on Jan 28, 2011 - 10:54 PM, said:

In an earlier interview, they said they won't be localizing anything at all. Instead they will just do straight translation (like Yuan style). Keeping the story and everything original.

I really hope that's what they decide to do. I think localization tends to dilute the story more than anything else...so what if we may or may not catch a couple of references? We'll live.

Plus, localizing just makes the process take even longer.

[Corey Blue]

Ryochan, on Jan 28, 2011 - 10:54 PM, said:

In an earlier interview, they said they won't be localizing anything at all. Instead they will just do straight translation (like Yuan style). Keeping the story and everything original.

So no crappy English dub?

[soknife]

Corey Blue, on Jan 28, 2011 - 11:21 PM, said:

So no crappy English dub?

i'd rather have original voice acting, coz otherwise you'd have to re-animate mouth movement and that'll take time...

[Ryochan]

Corey Blue, on Jan 28, 2011 - 11:21 PM, said:

So no crappy English dub?

Man i'm all for doing English voices myself, cause in Aion most of them suck. Localization doesn't have much to do with language spoken. Rather familiarizing the game's contents etc for a different region.

[PaniC]

WOOHOOOOOOOO

[回し蹴り ★]

I am totally OK with just subtitles/translation.

[Corey Blue]

Ryochan, on Jan 28, 2011 - 11:30 PM, said:

Man i'm all for doing English voices myself, cause in Aion most of them suck. Localization doesn't have much to do with language spoken. Rather familiarizing the game's contents etc for a different region.

Hope they stick to the subtitles.(Cant fool myself,it's a high chance we'll still get dubs.)

[Ghastly]

Ryochan, on Jan 28, 2011 - 10:54 PM, said:

In an earlier interview, they said they won't be localizing anything at all. Instead they will just do straight translation (like Yuan style). Keeping the story and everything original.

"Earlier interview?" Where? :O

First time I've heard that. But if it's true then wow, that would truly allow B&S to release only a some months after the Korean release instead of a whole year after the Korean release.

[Lee]

Fantastic news! New classes muuuuuuuuust be released NOW.
I'm still hoping for a nature class <3.

Napsys, on Jan 28, 2011 - 7:52 PM, said:

and i
JIZZED
IN
MY
PANTS.

great news i guess.. still somewhat dissapointed that ill probably be playing this in 2012 for the first time >.>

gogo give us more infoooo!! yummy yummy

I totally just downloaded that! Now I'm listening to the female's response, haha!
I like to think that my sense of humor is not so juvenile. But, I can't help myself :(.

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