Revelation Online – Globalized World: Russians Bring China-MMO to Germany
What is Revelation Online? Revelation Online is a Chinese MMORPG by NetEase. A China fantasy setting, action-oriented, with the ability to fly on your own wings – everything is basically solid.
Does Revelation Online have the spark it needs?
Best Case: In the best case, Revelation Online is a logical evolution of solid Asian fare like Aion or Blade and Soul, no revolution, but an evolution that certainly has its fans.
Worst Case: In the worst case, the game fails in the West – just as Skyforge did, the last action MMORPG from publisher my.com – it wasn’t bad, but somehow it lacked the spark to resonate with the Western audience.
How has the development gone so far? It was a long development in China. Here in the West, the Russian publisher My.com will take over the management; an initial beta has already taken place – but it was more of a technical test. Not much has been heard about Revelation Online in the West until it became clear in the summer of 2016 that it was coming to Europe. The cultural barrier from China to us is even higher than to South Korea.
Will Revelation Online be the breakthrough for Asian MMORPGs in the West?
Will Revelation Online have a West release in 2017? Yes, everything suggests that My.com will manage this. They might stay in an open beta phase longer – but yes, it is coming in 2017.
The open beta starts on March 6, 2017.
Mein MMO says: Similar to Bless, it is a “known quantity” – the current Asia MMORPG indeed. As a Westerner and not an extreme genre expert, it is often difficult to keep them apart. The questions are: a) Will it resonate in mainstream, and b) Does it have enough uniqueness to keep players engaged longer?
There are always fans of Asian games who have already played them in their home countries and now say: Yes, this is it now – this is completely different from all other Asian MMORPGs before. But those were already present in the last Asian MMOs. None has found its footing in the mainstream yet – at least not in the recent past.
A report from the first closed beta here – even if the translation was lacking – can be read here:
Revelation Online in beta test: Fly, fight, drink, and don’t understand anything!
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