The sandpark MMO ArcheAge enjoys great popularity. Two million players have already registered for the game, and with the hundred thousand bots that have been disposed of, that number has already been accounted for.
ArcheAge: Two million players, truly successful
Trion Worlds CEO Scott Hartsman addresses the fans in a letter, bringing numbers. Two million players have now registered for the western version of ArcheAge. This is far beyond expectations. And as he states: “The bots and banned accounts have already been accounted for.”
ArcheAge tweaks the bot detector and spam filter
An important piece of information, as bots have been one of the dominant topics recently. As community manager Scapes points out, the bot detector was too “conservative” in the initial weeks, meaning it was too cautious. They adjusted it last week to lower the number of bad apples in ArcheAge. According to Hartsman, the number of caught and banned accounts is now in the six figures, so in the hundreds of thousands.
But not only bots are a problem; spam also annoys players. Until now, a temporary solution has been used, but they now want to install the system that ensures as spam-free conversations as possible, which has also worked for Rift. This is what they swear by at Trion Worlds. Hartsman states that a delivery has arrived, which will soon ensure that the world of ArcheAge will be significantly less affected by gold sellers and spammers.
In the future: Small patch, Auroria, large patch, events
Otherwise, the letter from Hartsman discusses what the producer of ArcheAge, Victoria Voss, announced in interviews with us and other media last week: ArcheAge has passed its initial phase, and now, with the unlocking of Auroria, the northern continent, an important milestone is approaching.
Additionally, they are diligently working to bring the current Korean patch 1.7 to the West. It will change quite a bit. And they are also preparing events – for example, for Halloween.
Patch 4.11 brings challenges for gold sellers, relief for healers
Now, very soon, the next patch is coming to the players, the 4.11. This will already bring the first challenges for gold sellers, as it now requires level 15 to speak in the larger channels. They have also discovered a heart for healers and are giving healer weapons as quest rewards and in Hasla, that dreadful and wondrous place where players grind their endgame gear with various tokens.
Additionally, they are relieving the somewhat talkative court channel of interjections. Only parties involved in the process can speak in this special chat. And the skin of the Kraken will be more resilient; only siege machines should be able to penetrate it in the future – and yes, that includes cannonballs.
