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shio on 11 April 2008

"From worst to first! Just last month, Flagship's Hellgate: London made 1UP's list of the top five botched PC game launches of all time, with regular server crashes and people being billed multiple times for premium subscriptions. The Southeast Asian launch went even worse, with Infocomm Asia Holdings nearly wiping all player progress within the first 30 days of launch. It's amazing what a few months can do, because now Hellgate: London is being touted as Korea's most successful online game launch in 3 years. There are over a million active accounts, and the game is the 9th most-played game in the country. Sheesh. "To become the most successful launch in Korea for over three years is an incredible achievement," said Bill Roper, CEO of Flagship Studios."

http://kotaku.com/378674/hellgate-london-koreas-most-successful-launch

Wot?! What a turn around Flagship Studios made, from zero to hero.



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Neos on 11 April 2008

ni hao



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BenKenobi88 on 11 April 2008

It's an MMO, what did you expect from the Koreans...they eat that sh*t up.



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FaRmLaNd on 11 April 2008

Not surprised. Some of these people were responsible for some of the most popular games in korea.



El Duderino on 11 April 2008

I think I may go on a trip to Korea the week Starcraft 2 launches... I will have the hole country for myself :)



 

 

 

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Strategyking92 on 11 April 2008

I thought the game failed critically and commercially, I never expected this !



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ckmlb on 16 April 2008
El Duderino said:
I think I may go on a trip to Korea the week Starcraft 2 launches... I will have the hole country for myself :)

haha nice.

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FaRmLaNd on 16 April 2008

Korea will go into a recession when starcraft 2 is launched. Everyone will chuck a sicky and miss work. Conversely the games industry there will see record profits.



cwbys21 on 17 April 2008
Strategyking92 said:
I thought the game failed critically and commercially, I never expected this !

 it did all right critically, a bunch of sevens pertty much.  It also did fairly well commerically.  Was in top selling PC software charts for a while.  Not enough to keep it going as an MMO though.  This 1 million people in Korea if they stay will keep the MMO part going.  Get FSS enough money to set themselves up to stay independent and all.



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