http://news.mmosite.com/content/2012...beatable.shtml
The latest statistics has witnessed the success of Blade & Soul in Korea. Within a week after the commercialization of Blade & Soul, the online player number ranking continues to maintain the top. Having much similarity to Aion from the same company NCsoft, Blade & Soul&'s future has been the hot topic to discuss.
Since commercialization, B&S has been taking the lead of the online player number. The result shows the Korean game industry to enter the NCsoft era, even the previous NO.1 Diablo 3 has to claim its ending in Korea.
Numerous Korean game industry experts are very optimistic about the future development of Blade & Soul in Korea, and looking forward to the success of the global launch. CN version is about to come on August, as the first destination of the global launch, Chinese game market has expressed their high anticipation for Blade and Soul.
Hopefully once Guild Wars 2 comes out, they ramp up the Japanese version followed by the NA/EU. I guess games these days that come out of South Korea go South Korea --> China --> Japan --> NA/EU.
And now we move to Fashion™
http://www.mmoculture.com/?p=2823
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2012...and_soul.shtml
"Blade & Soul has been launched in Korea less than a month ago, and NCSoft's promotional machine is stepping its game up by involving again the K-Pop Girl Group SECRET, that was already part of the game's promotion in multiple occasions.
This time the four members Hyosung, Zinger, Jieun and Sunhwa posed as characters from the game, and their outfits are being sold in the game’s cash shop, linked to a contest open to those that will purchase them.
They are now for sale in the game at a mere 10,000 Korean Won, which is around USD 8.00. These 4 dresses represent each race’s female side of things. This is no doubt another move to keep the fashion wary female gamers in Blade & Soul happy."
This is a picture of the group wearing said dresses:
http://img7.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/20...23ho3_1280.jpg
And this is a picture of those same dresses ingame:
http://img6.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/2012/07/25/bns.jpg
No word if they will have a male pop group sport outfits for the game in the near future.