The Korean MMORPG Echo of Soul was already available in the West as a Free2Play and Buy2Play version. Now the publisher Gamigo has once again secured the rights to the game. Specifically, to the revised edition called “Echo of Soul: The Blue”.
What is Echo of Soul? Echo of Soul is a Korean MMORPG from the year 2013. The game was a typical theme park MMORPG. It featured the usual mix of PvE and PvP. Hence, there were raids, dungeons, and quests. On the PvP side, besides the usual arena battles, skirmishes between guilds were also possible.
As a special feature, Echo of Soul had a soul system. You could loot them in combat and customize your heroes. Echo of Soul even won an award in 2014 in the category “Best MMORPG” at the Thailand Game Show Festival.
Isn’t Echo of Soul already available here in the West? Indeed, Echo of Soul is nothing new in the West. The game was released here in 2015 under the publisher Aeria Games. They were later acquired by publisher Gamigo. A Buy2Play Steam version followed. Both versions exist separately from each other.
What happened in Korea? In South Korea, however, Echo of Soul had less luck after initial successes and was shut down on October 22, 2015. A year later publisher Kakao Games, known from Black Desert Online, bought the game and released it as a subscription version.
But the game we are talking about here is not the classic Echo of Soul nor the Phoenix Edition, but the revised “Blue Version” by Kakao Games.
Echo of Soul: The Blue – What is it?
According to the site MMOCulture.com, Echo of Soul: The Blue is the latest version of the game, a completely revised edition from the studio Blue Potion Games. It is published by Kakao Games. There is reportedly also a mobile version called EOS: The Red.
The Blue version is supposed to offer among other things
- new dungeons,
- equipment
- and a massive overhaul of the game systems.
What the release of a third version of Echo of Soul in the West means for the other two versions, and what business model “The Blue” will have, is still unclear.
When will Echo of Soul: The Blue be released in the West? Gamigo has not provided any information on this yet.
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