They also love lineage and rangnarok online so I can understand why they like hellgate...

Definitely peculiar tastes over there in S. Korea.

Kudos to Flagship for at least one success.

As for your "curious tastes", how did Blizzard's Starcraft success in S. Korea contribute to that company???

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I'm pretty sure you have to actually sell copies and be out of beta to have a "successful launch".

True. And it has, and it is.

Hellgate: London was released commercially on February 22nd, and achieved record sales in its first week of presales.

I'm pretty sure you have to actually sell copies and be out of beta to have a "successful launch".

Yeah, I agree, I think Flagship is just doing ANYTHING they can for some sort of positive PR. A

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Bah. Might have been some useful text to quote in the bluenews posting. I guess I should have read the article

Hmmmm, someone is not telling the whole truth:
http://www.flagshipped.com/2008/03/25/hellgate-in-korea-failure-in-the-form-of-a-chart

as opposed to the SouthEast Asian launch of HGL?

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3166996
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=183206

and to think a certain govt poured in taxpayers cash by the millions to support this crud.

Hmmmm, someone is not telling the whole truth:
http://www.flagshipped.com/2008/03/25/hellgate-in-korea-failure-in-the-form-of-a-chart

Yup. And that trend line is not lookin too good...

http://gamechart.co.kr/hompy/m.php?mode=report&pid=962

flagshipped.com

LOL, that is fucking awesome. The title graphic alone is worth the trip.

You Got flagshipped! LOL. Even tossed in an EPIC FAILURE!

I think I'm saving that and adding to my rolling screensaver pictures.

Feel sorry for FSS to be honest at this point...But that is probably becuase I haven't played the game.

Koreans also love to grind. I don't know if that means anything.

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Christ this is the market for horrendous shitty grindfest games and they can't succeed there? lol

I am going to sound like a overgeneralizing idiot, but it seems like koreans love every piece of shit mmo that gets released.

the american release of hellgate was an alpha for the korean beta

Seems like Flagship is taking marketing lessons from Turbine.

Touting success in Korea is not something to brag about. Fagship should just pull up stakes and move to Korea. No one hear wants them around.


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