I checked the various forums for the game this morning, as I usually do before going in game, and found this post from a regular on the Games Campus forum. ForestWolf gives us a link to a German language online gamer publication. The article says pretty much everything that Games Campus has already told us, but with one little gem. The game is restarting on the 21st of the month.

Why can't Games Campus tell us this sort of thing directly, in their own forum?

Unfortunately this sort of thing has been the mindset of all the publishers of this game so far.

The Peeps Don't Need to Know (so we won't tell them...)

Games Campus has some basic decision making to do in the next two weeks, and we players would like answers.

1. What are the experience rates going to be set to?

During the beta test we had the old, low Acclaim rate, but it was a beta test so who cares. The characters have since been wiped. With those old, low rates we at least got regular events with raised xp rates. Are we going to see that here?

Acclaim later permanently raised xp rates, by lowering the required experience to level up for each level. They did that when the level cap was raised, with new maps and new material. Are we even going to have the LiaoDong, Ice map, or Tibet map to play with?

2. How about skill experience and drop rates?

We had some really nice rates for these during the beta test. Except for the insane stuff, most skills were easy keep up to their level cap. It was possible to buy the items needed from NPC's, elixirs to make good weapons and it was easy to get good clothes. Map collections were easy to fill too, and that helped a lot. Will this continue in Open Beta? I sure hope so.

3. Refining rates?

I tried to refine several weapons during the beta test. The results weren't good but as long as the drops rate provides a good supply of Blood Essence, nobody minds too much. Still, it would be nice to make a least a +7 weapon, when you take three identical items and hope for the best. One of them breaks at +4, the next at +5, the next at +6. Games Campus isn't going to sell a lot of Dragons Tears/Scales with those refining rates, unless they're priced at about 50 cents each.

4. Items from the Korean version?

There are a variety of items that have never been released into the western games. We can see the screen shots from their game, and a few people can read Korean too. Clothes with elemental resistance, or slots? Slotted Wan Daye weapons? Those would sure be nice, and there are a lot more items out there.

5. PvE or PvP?

The western versions of the game have never had a balanced PvP system, and for that reason alone I think it should be confined to Bloody Plains at least until we get some balance. Who really wants to be the target of a pimply-faced, snot-nosed 14 year old with attention deficit disorder, and a super powered nuker?

I for one will not pay 10 cents for that sort of gaming pleasure.

I could go on and on about the issues in the game, and the decisions that need to be made. I can even accept that these basic decisions haven't been made yet, but at the very least I would hope that once these things are decided, that Games Campus will tell us directly how things are going to be run in their version.

That means "tell us directly, in your forums, and not in some obscure online gaming magazine that half your potential customers can't read anyway".