The Korean MMORPG Bless Online is now about to enter an open beta soon.
Bless Online has long been considered one of the games from Korea to watch. 200 developers have worked on the game, millions flowed into its development. It runs on Unreal Engine 3, so it looks really good, considered a AAA MMORPG.
Bless Online is doing roughly this: great trailers have already been seen, there are also some plans that sound great, the game looks fantastic in screenshots, and they’ve got Hans Zimmer on board as a top musician. But somehow the game didn’t really impress during the closed beta events. The combat system felt off, and that quickly drains an MMORPG’s lifeblood.
Now they have taken a few months to tweak things here and there and are now ready to go into an open beta. This is practically equivalent to a release for free-to-play games in Korea.
Today it was announced when it will start: It will be on January 27. They are already significantly further along than we might have thought.
Bless will launch with 6 classes, RVR, PvP, crafting, raids, and much more. As initial reports suggest, it is similar to WoW, a game dominated by the conflict between two kingdoms. However, with a significantly stronger emphasis on PvP than is the case with our genre leader here.
The three Korean Bs – Black Desert, Blade and Soul, Bless
Bless was one of three Korean MMORPGs we had on our radar last year. Blade and Soul, the veteran among the three, is finally launching in Europe today, as the head start begins. Currently, for Black Desert, we are still waiting for information about the second closed beta in Europe and its launch. That is expected to be “relatively soon.” There are no news about a western release for Bless just yet.
