Developer XL Games and North American publisher Trion Worlds have announced the fourth closed beta for Korean smash hit MMO ArcheAge to happen this week. Will you be among the lucky few?
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From the mind of Lineage and Lineage 2 creator Jake Song, ArcheAge promises to be an MMO experience quite unlike any other we have on the market so far, a mix between the dainty Korean stylings of Guild Wars 2 and the player-based emergent economy of an EVE Online.
When will beta 4, "Conflict & Conquest" go live? The official site says it's from "Friday, August 22 at 10:00 AM PDT (GMT-7) and running until the same time on Wednesday, August 27! Players who participated in CBE3 will not need to redownload the entire game client, only an incremental patch to Build 4.6 which will be on our Alpha servers tomorrow."
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Language choice will be available for the first time as well: "[You] can to choose to play ArcheAge in English, French, or German on any server! If you've played in a previous Closed Beta Event, your character will be waiting for you - in whatever language you choose. Your timers on crops and taxes are set to pick up right where they left off at the end of the last event. (To change the language in ArcheAge, just log in to your Glyph Client, go to "Settings", click on "General", and select the language that you would like.)"
Much digital ink has already been spilled about the exciting feature that is the game's player-run courts of justice in which guilds can either screw their buddies over or help them out for a price like so many fantasy teamsters or other assorted unionized goombahs. I certainly hope I'll be in this time!
