Tree of Savior Forum

Regarding Local Publisher

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#1

Well, since I can’t find any way to send IMCgames a ticket . . and I still have frown on my forehead because a local publisher in my country. .
I have the urge to express my feeling and write it down here, as a player, as a gamer. . yes, your beloved gamer who will enjoy your game and walking with you. .

I do know that IMCgames need a contract with local publishers to distribute their game to the other market. But please, next time, when another publisher approach IMCgames for ToS, please do some research, history, track record about the publisher, as well based on how the players in that country’s opinion toward the said publisher. .

Since, most of this publishers are seeking toward profit, lot of cases that good games being closed down or dying because the act of the said publisher, who directing the game toward pay-to-win, uncontrollable bugs and cheats, and everything.
Even our fellows in Brazil filling petition to reject certain publisher to publish ToS . .

That’s it, unless IMCgames want to see if the game they created so hard with sweat, blood, experience and virgin tears, being broken by certain local publisher, , just like what was done to RO.

if you have already done that, then do it again and again. I’m sure there is another publisher with their true passion of gaming industry, or another way out to make ToS playable to everyone in the world. .

Thank you. .

pheeeww. . that was good, I let out all my thought. . haha

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#2

The problem I see with this is that no publisher seems to be good in any player’s eyes as far as I can tell.

#3

yeah. . but at least, there will be two side of opinions on this matter, so the conclusion will less subjective . . from the side of their future consumer too. combining and mitch-matching with history, track-record, thats it

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#4

There are a few good ones… most of them suck though. I couldn’t name the good ones off the top of my head, I tend to just memorize the horribly bad and stay as far away from them as possible. However if ToS just publish their own game in each country and screw doing it through another company, it will be K.

#5

I do prefer ToS publish their own game in each country . or maybe regional based server. . better is the international integrated server. . I feel more secure when the one hosting and managing us is the developer itself. the one who know about the game, metagame. .

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#6

yeah if its work like that it would be too good to be true, :sweat:
publisher tend to milk their potential title game to their last until people start to move away from it…

#7

I agree, no publisher is better because IMCGames receives a direct feedback from us.

#8

hmm
personally i like to have a local server in my country(preferably good company for hosting ToS) o_0 dont get me wrong here, its not the game to be blame here, its the local company/server hosting the game thats to be blame for making the game closed…
will this have impact on the game? yes… people will talk about this and that. that cant be avoided but can altleast be lessen by good/smart decisions/plans made by IMC in the release of the game

hmm well maybe we can address our pleads here internationally if theres any bug concerns or anything thats bad made by local company running the game >_<"

#9

I’m sort of having dilemma.
If the good publisher, or IMCgames itself will publishing locally . . it’s good. lower ping. . but, lot of immature players will join in lol. .

#10

The good thing about having IMC handling the game servers themselves is that new content gets released immediately in that server. While in other local publishers… we would have to wait. :frowning: Perhaps… another closed beta for the local publisher?

#11

yeah. . for some reason. . I’m thinking that getting a game from the publisher is kind of sucks. . not knowing anything about the game, but wanting anything from us and devs

#12

i am working since 15 Years in the gaming industry, and i can tell you from my experience that there is a point, you should stop listen to customers.

i hope nobody gets me wrong
making customers happy is important, but taking the opinions of customers, when it comes to contract stuff, is an absolute nogo. Customers don’t know the conditions of the contracts, they don’t know how much work is done behind the scenes. it is like you would stand behind a surgeon and telling him “oh, so much blood, are you really doing this correctly?”

the hype around Tree of Savior is pretty big, which is probnably the reason imcGames did not took a publisher yet in the western market.
most of you will probably be happy about it. i am not. the reason for this is that imcGames never published a game to the western market.
the western market is in every aspect different, then the asian/korean market.
the customers expect different stuff, they are willed to pay for different things, they have a different playstyle.
if imcGames listens to much to the opinion of the customers from a market they never touched before without having a local support (a publisher), this game could become a mess within 6 months. i don’t think anyone of you wants this.

that’s my 5cents about this topic.

Kind regards
Gardosen

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#13

well. I’m not against local publisher though, what I’m demanding is, IMCgames to take consideration local gamers about the said publisher who want take ToS as one of their product, and undergo further research about the publisher who will making contract with them… that being said, IMCgames have to carefully looking for publisher who have good record for hosting a game and good impression from local gamers. so the game can maintain for long term. . while the game is maintaining for a long term, IMCgames have benefit as well from the prolonged contract and bought rights.

looking for the demand side and opinion is important as well. . thats an opinion from International Relationship and Business Management scholar.graduate

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#14

Some legit concerns there Gardosen =x

On the plus side if it does turn out good, the international server should get the updates pretty fast and content can filter down to the other countries for a change XD I got so tired of always hearing about what was happening on kRO and then having to wait for the patches to hit iRO before eventually making it to oRO (Australia) XD

P.S.
IMC, if you try IP blocking Australia from the international server, I will fight you @_@!

#15

Gaming community must not forgive bad publishers. Once you know they are greedy dont buy any other game from them. Some publishers just want to grab money when the hype is high.

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#16

yeah . show em who is the boss >:[ . . we dont need publisher who dont even know how games should be