Posts by TuxedoMask

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Have a question, so game forge will not do update the revamp? It will be only in the steam-kog version?

No, what TuxedoMask says (thanks for all your updates on this matter!) is that those "compensatory rewards" might not be released here since we were not affected by this whole mess.

There are no reasons for us to believe that the revamps won't come to Elsword Europe

Sorry for the confusion there! Like Senakhtenre said, we don't know if we will get the compensatory rewards! Other than that I wanted to highlight that GF HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SCANDAL. Some people might think that GF has something to do with this, since the information that were provided to us foreigners are very very blurry and unclear! That's why I tried to put as much perspective to all of this as possible, so that you know that this matter at hand is about Elsword Korea ONLY. How much we, as European users, profit from this is unclear.
I hope that makes more sense >__<

And here I am with some new information regarding this situation. Fresh outta the oven xD

After the massive backlash that KoG received, we also received information regarding future updates.
(While I wanted to refrain from including my opinion, I can't help thinking that this is very lousy damage control to get everyone back into the game. It's not the first time they did this where they make every character mega overpowered just to nerf them again once they have enough players back in the future.)

The new update will include not a character re-vamp, they rather call it "character re-boot", in which characters will not only get a re-vamp, but more-so will see a change in their general commands (more or less) as well as an inclusion of an evasion skill that can be used when one's hit by attacks.
More information and details can be found here: https://elwiki.net/babel/?p=6768

This is the schedule of rebooted characters:

Elsword Character Reboot Schedule

– 6 20: 1st Character Reboot (Elsword, Rena, Eve)

– 7 04: 2nd Character Reboot (Elesis, Ara, Ain)

– 7 18: 3rd Character Reboot (Aisha, Raven, Add, Laby)

– 8 01: 4th Character Reboot (Chung, LuCiel, Rose)

Also within this mess, Youtuber "2nafish" was kind enough to actually translate an official statement regarding everything. In their official statement KoG admitted that most of the accusations regarding current events were TRUE (indrectly):

(Translation provied by 2nafish on Babel):
This is an excerpt. Full article linked below this paragraph

• Suspicion regarding personal contact between certain player and game manager

"As we mentioned in our previous statement, an inspection has taken place and although evidence of some personal communication has been found, we’ve confirmed that it wasn’t related to leaking of content updates.

However, the game manger in question felt responsible for his/her actions providing the ground for players to become suspicious and therefore has been removed from all work related to Elsword by personal consent.

All Elsword developers and managers will make sure to learn from this incident and be careful so our players won’t have even a slightest suspicion."

Apology Rewards are also released as planned. Whether or not these will arrive in Europe, we will see about that.
The whole translated statement can be found here, PLEASE READ IT: https://elwiki.net/babel/?p=6766

The next link I provide is also from babel regarding the Patch Notes for tomorrow: https://elwiki.net/babel/?p=6771

FYI: Whether or not you will stick to this game is up to you, but please don't forget that GameForge has no affiliation with this mess in case you may be confused. Gameforge distributes the game, but does not create future content. However, KoG Korea does so.

First of all thank you Nexxon for the clarification. First time using the forum.

I WANT TO MENTION THAT ALL INFORMATION IS SUPPLIED WITHOUT LIABILITY! ASSUMPTIONS AND ALLEGATIONS AHEAD!

Other than that, yes, I also mentioned that most of these accusations have been rumors up until now that are still not really proven to be correct 100%. Even though there were two apologies released in Korean I didn't try to run the first post through google translate after hearing from Koreans that the first apology was (allegedly!) filled with lies that were busted pretty much immediately.
The second apology by the director still didn't meet satisfied players, more information here (IN KOREAN ONLY):

http://elsword.nexon.com/commu….aspx?n4ArticleSN=5027992
I want to refrain from any more confusion, therefore I will post another video, in which the Youtuber "Zero's Story" tried to summarize the case as compact as possible, also giving his insight to the story at hand.
Link:

In the end, you have to make up your mind on your own in that regard.
AGAIN, MOST OF THE ALLEGATIONS AND ACCUSATIONS ARE STILL SEEN AS RUMORS, EVEN THOUGH EVIDENCES WERE PROVIDED. A REAL AND PROPER STATEMENT HAS YET TO BE PUBLISHED.

What I'd like to mention is the live stream of YouTuber "TIFFANY". According to translations of Youtuber "2nafish", yesterday he explained in his live stream (the link is unlisted now, so it's hard to find) that "TIFFANY" actually planned on applying and becoming part of the KoG team. "TIFFANY" suggested different and more player-friendly ways of enhancements only to be asked by the interviewer whether or not "TIFFANY's" suggestions are lucrative ways to make money (rough repetition/translation, sorry).
To provide a source nonetheless here's the live stream of "TIFFANY" (in Korean q.q), but for those that are able to understand, there you go:

What's the issue to players in Korea?
In the end a group of people received preferential treatment, they even had a lot of insight as to confidential information regarding future updates, they were bribed with unreleased goods to remain silent and people suspect that these selected users are also responsible for the huge "Nerfquake", as well as other major changes such as Ara's spirit orbs in recent patches.
Speaking of patches, I also heard that these updates won't come early or mid-summer in Korea, but only late summer after the El-Star content, so around September.

Again, all of these information aren't proven 100% correct, please take some things with a grain of salt!

(I hope that this post is still okay and still contributes to the forum accordingly. If not, again, this post can be deleted any time! This is my last post regarding this topic now anyway xD)

It seems that my last post wasn't deemed acceptable, therefore I simply wanna thank Ketsuekii for those (factual) information and add that the future of Elsword KR is in the air.

To clarify the whole situation (which is not particularly complete because most of us don't speak/understand Korean).
The situation started when people got banned on Korean Elsword. They didn't particularly understand why, but later someone of the Korean guild called "Incheon United" leaked that one player has told the Director of the game that there are people allegedly manipulating the ranking system in PvP. Thus, cancelling the tournament (as Ketsuekii mentioned) and following the bans.
Also, this mentioned user started to behave strangely the past weeks. He started selling his gears that he worked hard for in the Raids and stuff, soon to also reveal that he already got a few information regarding soon-to-be updates in Elsword (like I mentioned before: Enhancement of level cap of gears and introduction of new weapons).
After all of these information were released, people got furious, because they also heard that top players of Els Korea were even invited to a secret meeting with KoG, which is another huge break in trust, because those meetings are meant to be transparent, so that people can voice their opinions, wishes and disappointments with the game.
Things blew up, when user TIFFANY, who is famous for his EVE gameplays on Youtube, started a live stream, in which he started to delete everything. He voiced his distrust with the company and also that he is fed up supporting a game that's led by money-hungry people, thus a wave of complaints and deletion started, following others doing the same thing.
More and more people started to upload videos regarding their deletion of their accounts, which brings Elsword in a precarious state.
Later at night the actual Director released a statement regarding the situation, clarifying nothing, but just apologizing countless times.

(If there's an issue with this post, feel free to delete this post. I find it important though, because it will -more or less- affect every player in every server existing)

Edit: Again, no proper sources available on my side. Various live streams covered the issue -of course in Korean-. I expect user 2nafish (on Youtube) to make an official statement regarding the situation and also clarifying things in a few hours.
Edit 2: I found this video of user MATO (마토) that -I assume- covers the situation. Of course in Korean. In this video screenshots of exchanged text messages and also a picture of mentioned meeting can be found as well as the official KoG good, that these people received as a gift, even though they aren't out in Korea:

Considering what happened yesterday in Els Korea, we will see if we will ever get updates, but allegedly we would get a new weapon by the end of the year and enhancements can be elevated till +14, making the level cap of gears higher.
Sadly I cannot provide any sources, since those information were provided by kind Korean Elsword players that knew English and translated the scandal, as well as the leaked information regarding future updates during live streams of various famous Korean players.