ArcheAge CBT4 wrapped up, now what?
ArcheAge’s fourth closed beta test started nearly three months ago on December 8th. It ran all the way until the beginning of this week.
Over those 95 days 173 guilds were founded, around 3400 houses were constructed, over 130,000 livestock were sold, and 750,000 pine trees, 660,000 strawberry bushes, and 2,200,000 other trees were planted.
That in and of itself is pretty amazing, but what’s more important to XLGAMES than those metrics is the feedback they received from testers in the CBT4 forums. Over the span of 95 days, 40 full patches were pushed out and 260,000 posts were made in the forums. Some of those patches were considerably complicated, including the addition of new bosses (Kraken), Christmas-themed events in December, the pirate faction, the family system, castle seiges, creative new mounts, underwater gathering and agriculture, and more!
According to ThisIsGame Global, XLGAMES now has a lot of feedback and material to work with as it continues to improve its first and biggest game:
“We deeply appreciate the testers who participated in the long test of an incomplete game. Later schedules will be announced as soon as we finish reviewing the test,” said Yong-Gon Kim the director of marketing team of ArcheAge.
Here’s XLGAME’s final official CBT4 video. It’s pretty amazing to see the before and after images of the housing areas, which appear to be barren plains before being covered in bungalows and trees.
And a couple CBT4 players from the international community have uploaded videos of test’s final big event, a party on a giant yacht! The after-party consists of folks dancing and sometimes poking each other with swords.
So what happens now? The same thing that happened after CBT3 and CBT2 and CBT1: we wait for word of the next test while XLGAMES’ tired employees get a bit of well-deserved R&R.
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First territory conquered by Renaissance!
Gaming blog MMOCulture has graciously taken the time to translate an interview article from ThisIsGame.com. TIG got in contact with “Renaissance”, the expeditionary force that claimed the first territory on the northern continent, and asked their leader a couple questions.
Click here to read the article on MMOCulture or just click “Continue Reading” below.
One more thing: we’ve got another high-quality CBT4 livestream for you to drool over. Check this out!
ArcheAge Open Beta in November?
There’s a rumor making its rounds that XLGames is planning to hold ArcheAge’s OBT (open beta test) in November. If this is true, and if XLGames follows a release schedule similar to Aion’s and TERA’s (open beta flows seamlessly into final release after a few weeks), then that means we could be playing ArcheAge by this time next year (if you have a valid Korean account, of course)!
Another interesting bit of news: Min-Hee Jeon, the famous Korean fantasy author who is working on ArcheAge’s lore, has released a 48-page-long story for free on the internet. It concerns on a female child’s growth from a tragic youth into a strong adult in the ArcheAge universe. It’s extremely unlikely that we’ll ever get a full translation of the story, but the fact that it exists is reason enough to believe that a lot of thought is going into ArcheAge’s lore. 
ArcheAge CBT 2 focuses on naval battles and…jail time?
Link: ArcheAge CBT 2 focuses on naval battles and…jail time?
According to an interview with Kyung-Tae Kim, the lead planner at XLGames, the second closed beta test of ArcheAge will be focused on battles at sea. Not only firefights, hand-to-hand combat is also available on the open ocean! Many more features are still in development, such as fishing in the middle of the ocean, housing on a deserted island, and hunting sea monsters. Follow the link for more info!
TIG looks back on ArcheAge’s first CBT with Jake Song.
Link: TIG looks back on ArcheAge’s first CBT with Jake Song.
Hey folks, we’ve got another translated article from ThisIsGame.com to share! We’ve edited the article a bit in order to make the it more readable. Enjoy!
