Archlord's return heralded by extra buckling of swashes
by Eliot Lefebvre 
Oct 9th 2009 at 10:00AM
Filed under: ArchLord, Launches, MMO industry, Server downtime, Free-to-play
Fans of the free-to-play MMO Archlord were probably less than thrilled in September, when the game's North American and European hosts lost the rights to the game. Codemasters was "unable to renew a license agreement" and had to shut down their servers for the game, with players left only with the taunting promise of another distributor picking up the game in the near future.
The near future, however, is apparently right now, with Webzen having returned the game to operation in North America and Europe. The game has also been updated with the Swashbuckler class, an all-female close-melee combat class that sports rabbit ears. (We're not sure if comparisons to the viera were intended, but they seem largely inevitable and perhaps suitable.)
In addition, Webzen is offering a transfer service for all former players of the Codemasters servers, with the transfer scheduled to complete on the 14th of October and offering a small amount of in-game money as an incentive -- that is, the money usually reserved for microtransactions. If you're a fan of the game, this is pretty unambiguous good news. If you aren't, well, now you have a chance to play it again one way or the other, which is always a good thing.
[ via Kotaku ]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
h4ngedm4n said on 5:06PM 10-09-2009
Archlord has had moon elves long before Final Fantasy XIV announced the Viera.
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Joey_the_mad26 said on 4:51PM 10-09-2009
I am somewhat dissapointed by the fact that this was not mentioned in the posting given the severity, but it must be mentioned that for whatever reason downloading the game client has resulted in the discovery of several pretty bad Viruses for quite a large number of people. Webzen seems unable to figure out from exactly which download sites the Viruses are coming from or if it's even something inside their own updater. Bottom-line is if you do not have Internet Security software on your PC do 'not' download the game until this matter is addressed. For those who have McAfee, Norton, etc, please make sure you are up to date and that you run scans on all the files before installation. Given that Archlord is a pretty damn fun F2P this whole thing is terrible, but if you're prepared it should be okay. Feel free to check the Webzen forums for more information about the Virus problem.
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Neurotic said on 2:48PM 10-11-2009
How big is the client download? I might give Archie a look some rainy day...
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