How Will Warrior Epic Fare in Asia?
July 6, 2009 by Joel Tan
Filed under Asian MMO Players, MMORPG News, Random Rants
The questions that’s on my mind at the moment is one of puzzlement. Is True Games Interactive moving too fast?
For those confused as to what I’m babbling about, it’s True Games Interactive’s current jewel Warrior Epic, a new massively multiplayer online role-playing game with a few tricks up its virtual sleeve, and the online games publisher’s recent move to have the game operated in Asia.
Here’s the announcement story in case you’ve missed it:
Global online game publisher True Games Interactive has announced the signing of an exclusive deal with leading Asian online games publisher Gamania Digital Entertainment to publish, distribute and operate True Games and Possibility Space’s upcoming MMORPG Warrior Epic in China.
“Gamania is one of the premier publishers of online content in Asia and it is an honor to have them as a partner for Warrior Epic,” said Jeff Lujan, founder and chairman of True Games Interactive. “While it is common for Eastern-developed online games to come West, it is rare that a Western-developed game would be published in the East, but that is how confident we are that Warrior Epic has an appeal that spans gamers worldwide.”
Where True Games’ confidence rises, mine wanes. As an Asian, I’ve experienced the difference of playing both Western and Eastern-made online games, and I find some Western MMOs a bit slow as opposed to the dynamic and fast pace of most Asian MMOs. Let me point out that I’m talking about massively multiplayer online games here and not other video game genres.
Bottomline: I don’t know if Warrior Epic, a Western MMO, will fit the gaming taste of Asians.
Well, of course there’s World of Warcraft, which is more the exception not the rule; and Warhammer Online, which has in the course of many years tickled the fancy of fantasy RPG fanatics worldwide.
Call me a killjoy, but I think True Games is moving too fast. A few months of operating the North American server and allowing connections from Asia would have given them a better idea of how Asians would receive Warrior Epic.
And then again, I might be wrong.
