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Are You Ready China for Guild Wars 2 and Blade & Soul?

NCsoft, one of the leading Korean game makers will take its two most popular games to China in the second half of this year.

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Both "Blade & Soul" and "Guild Wars 2" are MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games) and highly popular worldwide. Sales of Guild Wars 2 passed 3 million copies and for its beta test, Blade & Soul got more than 150,000 players.

How fun are NCsoft's games? Apparently the company got sued for making one of it's games "too addictive". A player named Craig thought that the game was too addictive that as a result, he decided to sue NCsoft. He played the game for 11 hours per day, on average, over a 5-year period. As one could imagine, Craig couldn't function in real life. While we couldn't find any articles of what happened in this lawsuit, it's incontrovertible evidence of how fun the game is.

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The expectation for Guild Wars 2 was high and it made sure to satisfy gamers. It received a score over 90% on GameRankings, a website that collects review scores from both offline and online sources to give an average rating for a game. Once you check out this website, you will see how rare it is to get a score over 90%.

Guild Wars 2 takes place in the high fantasy world of Tyria and the player's quest is to defeat Zhaitan, the undead Elder Dragon by uniting people. Erik Kain, a Forbes contributor, wrote in his review: "All told, for the money this is the best deal you're likely to find on an MMORPG right now".

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We already wrote a review of Blade & Soul on our blog, so please check it out if you are curious about the story. Want even more information? Then check out the Blade & Soul English website.

About the author by Sophie Choi

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