By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net
DESPITE being its best launch so far, IP e-Games has said it does not see its new game Cabal Online competing directly with its most successful game RAN Online.
According to IP e-Games president Steve Tsao, Cabal Online is targeting a different market segment. While Cabal is set in a more medieval fantasy world, RAN has a modern world setting.
Tsao did not reveal the number of registered players in Cabal but said they have “a 110- percent server capacity” and that it is becoming a problem. He also said their concurrent user number is exceeding 40,000, with their servers already operating at full capacity.
“This is our best launch ever but we don’t see a reduction in players of RAN. Many of our Cabal players are new and are from other online games as well,” Tsao said.
Cabal Online has one of the shortest launch periods in the Philippines with only about one month from closed beta testing to commercial launch.
Here’s a video I took of IP e-Games product manager Mark Ng demonstrates the unique features of Cabal Online in this walkthrough.
Developed by Korean firm ESTSoft Corp, the game takes place in a world called Nevareth laid to waste by a force called CABAL from which the game title is derived. Seven warriors rose to help survivors recover from the devastation. However, CABAL aims to return by producing a child to serve as king. It is the seven warriors who take up arms against the new threat from CABAL.
There are six character classes in Cabal: Warrior, Blader, Wizard, Force Archer, Forcer Blader, and Force Shielder. Each one has unique skills though they share similar modes such as combo attacks, battle aura and the ability to ride on an astral board (a surfboard-like vehicle).
One unique feature in the game is the War functionality, which allows a player to join one of two countries, Capella and Procyon. As the word implies, members of each nation can do player kills against characters from the opposing nation during a certain period when a War channel is opened.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:56 am
Full channels in Cabal (in any server) has been a constant problem encountered by premium and non-premium gamers.
Despite e-games’ attempt in doing a massive ban of botters to eliminate those who are violating their policy, the channels remain full. The worst part is, there are several players who were unfairly blocked (http://forums.e-games.com.ph/index.php?showtopic=3349) and based on forum feedbacks there are still too many botters in the game.
Btw, I’ve always wondered why are the online gaming services (including their support service) were never scrutinized by gaming magazines? Parang puro hype lang napapansin ko.
July 11th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
You should see how LU is getting ready to raise the white flag..lalo na sa perfect world nila.
They are hosting events which will force the players to spend lots and lotsa money, then on the awarding day, they will suspend the event, decrease the number of possible winners and then make their GMs play dead para lang tumaas ang benta nang megaphones at site counters nila.
you can check the PW forums under the lucky star challenge 2 challenge thread. 5 to 10 thousand pesos ang nascam nila sa customers nila.
They have intentionally lowered all rates (Exp, Drops, Soul, Fame) so that players will be forced to buy items at the item mall that will compensate and boost these.
Perfect World and RF online’s days are doomed. Great Games killed by their very management.
And when they say goodbye, dont expect them to migrate your characters to an international server.
July 9th, 2008 at 2:00 am
Hmm, there’s really a need for expanding your channels.
July 6th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
ok sana un game. but laging puno un mga channels. egames di nyo ba pwede dagdagang ang capacity ng channel?
June 30th, 2008 at 11:00 am
if you guys are fed up with the games that are offered here aka Localized MMO’s i’d recommend Guild Wars, World of Warcraft and EVE Online