Phenomenal Video. It's funny how it started as a video about ArcheAge that ended up truning into a video about all of online gaming in Korea, because that's how connected it all is. I'll always love ArcheAge and hate that it never got to live up to the full potential it should have, and so many people don't even know what could have been.
kinda how i feel about Tera. I feel like Tera had the best combat out of any MMO i've played. Holy Trinity with action combat, but the content in the game was so grindy and repetitive with so much RNG it was not worth.
Maplestory was the second MMO I ever played and it launched my love for Korean MMO's. My first MMO I ever played was WoW but i was 10 when i started playing and couldn't always afford a subcription monthly as my parents didn't want to put their credit card onto the website every month. I found Maplestory and got hooked on Korean MMOs and have tried probably every single one of them from 2005-2015, the good and the bad ones, Stand outs for me were Flyff, Cabal Online as well as Silkroad Online, you can see a lot of Silkroad in todays Korean MMOs like BDO and Archage. Korea really did revolutionize the Free to play model of gaming. It also helped that Korean MMO's of the past were very hardware friendly compared to their western counterparts. I remember being ecstatic about having 28fps on WoW in 2005, Maplestory could run on a toaster and so could many of the old Korean MMOs.
@@samgoff5289 And yet not everyone did pay. This was the age when people were willing to start WoW on launch day and not mind only reaching 60 a week before WoTLK launched. Why is nobody willing to play games like that nowadays? Blame the rushing attitude for the decline in MMOs rather than companies just making business decisions.
@@samgoff5289 it wasn't even remotely like that for maplestory lol. It was legit the ONLY way to progress once they added cubes in. There was no other way to get better items than to purchase gambling "cubes" to augment your gear further (These were not available as ingame drops for over a decade after they were introduced.) The entire game economy revolved around exploits and hacks.
I truly am sad that a lot of these new MMORPGS have just turned into places for showing the size of your wallet via a cash shop instead of worlds in which stories are told and made
That was the common theme I saw while making this video. Every old forum thread, every video showing old footage of worlds gone by was filled with people telling the same stories. Of how they would adventure in a world that didn't hold their hand, meet friends, make stories and fall in love with the genre.
I played Lineage 2 for ~10 years. It gave me 3 best friends of 15 years and taught me how to manage people and talk to them. It is also the only reason I'm interested in Ashes of Creation. I hope AoC becomes the same mmo for me as L2 was back then.
Definitely do more of these Kira, I enjoy your content quite a bit but documentaries hit different. Excellent job, keep it up, I look forward to what else you will come up with. P.S. DFO is bad ass, Glacial Master ftw plays so smooth.
@@KiraTV1 You can catch the tail end of the speed up progression event for the new Spectre subclass if u want to get into the meat of the game quicker for review purposes it ends on the 18th. Though it doesnt have msq in that event mode. Though it only wares the skin of a beat'em up now a days, it stopped rly being one after leveling in 2016 when they added raids, that work like Alliance raids in ff14. the gearing is inbetween diablo and poe imo, with over 40 end game sets u can mix and match untill the new expansion in a few months. Have the current highest raid trailer feeling all epic th-cam.com/video/DVBTU2H5HLM/w-d-xo.html Then a new weekly dungeon in the next expansion feeling like a little retro th-cam.com/video/1gdLSZI6EPc/w-d-xo.html
You seem to have a knack for researching and presenting “academic” material in a clear and digestible manner. I hope you continue to produce this type of content in parallel to the scam mmo videos. While I enjoy hearing about Arya Realty, Earth 2, Chronicles of Elyria, etc., it has become a bit one note when that’s the only topic covered. Keep up the great work! Cheers!
Considering the amount of work that goes into videos like this and the risk they are to make based on that, it isn't content I can justify doing all the time. This is my worst performing video in weeks and took 20x as much time and mental labor. If I can knock out an e2 video in a couple hours and get a bunch more clicks and ad rev, it makes doing a ton of work and research less attractive. I still do them and will continue but until I'm financially secure in my life it'll not be all the time
Thanks for this video - despite having played a number of Korean mmos, I was not aware of some of these, and had no idea the success of Dungeon Fighter. I hope both regions will come to understand that players have little patience for overly monetized mmos. A lot of people say they did not like subscription models, but for the most part the content was not being cut into smaller portions as a result as we see so often today.
Absolovely love this kind of content! It's always nice to learn new stuff about the thing you're passionate about and this video format where you did all the hard work for us to sit back, relax and soak it all in is amazing! Thank you for taking the time to put this together, it's much appreciated.
Maplestory was my first ever MMO. I played it for so many years in my childhood. I didn't even know it was the first ever f2p mmorpg. It was such an amazing game.
dungeon fighter online is still a pretty fun game, i can imagine it being massively popular in korea. super fast paced, only issue i had with it was that i could feel arthritis racking up on my fingers with the amount of button mashing and finger dexterity you need for it.
You should have used Key Mapping Software to bind on a Gamepad. The Key to using a Gamepad in DFO is binding Keys to the Analog Joysticks. You can spin the stick and dump big attacks if need be. I had a Summoner and a M. Ben.
Yup Ragnarok Online was my introduction to the MMORPG genre as well. First time I played a MMORPG, even though it was only a 2 week open Beta. I loved it, but the idea of paying per month for a game was still very foreign to me (granted we didn't had fast internet till years later, so to me online gaming was very new while the rest of the Western World was already more used to it). I loved being a Accolyte selling town portals and be what you know in WoW as the Flight Master seeing there was no fast travel :) Man I miss that in MMORPG's, people are so spoiled with conveniance that actually having players depend on each other is none excistant anymore :( Well I get it, seeing the avarage MMORPG these day's last as long as the first month, maybe 3 before the massive decline unless being one of the big names, so it would be unplayable if people need to depend on each other while there is hardly anyone around. Played a lot of beta's back then, all eastern MMO's, my first Western MMO was Star Wars Galaxies the trial version and first sub based MMO that I paid for was WoW, but I'll always think back of Ragnarok Online, it still has it's charms for me how the game looked like. Even though there was hardly anything to do then walk around killing stuff. No quests that I can remember. Dungeons were fun though, just being in the open world so people just walked in.
Very informative. Thanks Ash. I have always focused on NA based MMO. I was aware of several of the titles you spoke about but the sheer masses of people playing them surprised me. Nice video.
Really great work on this. You caught several points I didn't know. This is the type of thing I can use professionally to help catch people up on a part of the genre they may not know much about, so I really hope you do more like this.
This is awesome! Thanks for taking me back on a journey of my childhood, and back to the days of authentic and awesome MMOs! Keep up the awesome work, and thank you for taking the time to make this a quality video! I wish more people would check this out, so you could continue to make great stuff like this! (Also, your Kickstarter videos rock as well!)
I still remember playing M.U., Ragnarok Online, Lineage 2 and other Korean MMORPG, they were a griiiiiiiiiiiiiind but so good, some of my best high school years memories are playing these games with my friends, and now I haven't played a Korean MMORPG for years, not sure it's the decline of Korean MMORPG or just me.
Really entertaining and interesting video! I learned a lot that I didn't know previously and would love to see you make either some deeper dives on topics you touched on here (like PC bangs and wider gaming culture in Korea) or to see this topic expanded to cover MMO/gaming culture in other markets (the West, Japan, Russia, etc). I feel like you provided a deeper look at a gaming culture most of us in your audience know nothing about, while also skimming over some really interesting topics for the sake of brevity (not a bad thing, gotta satisfy that algorithm, I know). But it's clear you researched a lot for this video, and I'd love nothing more than to learn more from that research on this topic or the aforementioned related ones. Great job!
I was playing Lineage II (interlude) while watching this video, an incredible game which stood the test of time pretty well. ArcheAge had such a big potential to become next big MMORPG, but failed due to greedy marketing and short sight of the publishers.
Excellent video, I've been playing MMOs in the UK since Legend of Mir 2 came over so its very interesting to see the bigger picture that I wasn't aware of as a kid and how it affected gaming so widely!
If there is more to the story of Jake Song or Archeage, i would love to hear more of what you have to say about it. I know these type of videos take alot of research and effort. Thank you for the content!
interesting. a glimpse into the pocket universe (south)korea. i thought it the sheer ammount in manhwa produced (my contact point^^) would be astonishing enough. happy new year kira.
As a european gamer the korean culture is one of the most fascinating to me. I really appreciate this type of "documentary" content. Since my first contact with MMOs was WoW, it would be great to hear about the history of western MMOs.
I've been watching a lot of history of MMORPG/RPG video games in general, and while a lot of series focus on Japan and the U.S., they only touch on the Korean side of things. This has been very interesting and and informative video. Thank you.
Great video ! I'm learning korean at uni and been there as an exchange student, when winter came I remember spending so much time in the pcbang in front of my uni. Great time !
Not really into eastern games but I love this kind of in depth videos. Loved the video. Great job man! Hopefully we can get more like this on different MMO-related stories/subjects?
Ragnarok online, Maplestory, FlyFF, MU online, GunZ: The Duel (one of my all time favorites), Vindictus, TERA. The memories man. Even though these weren't my favorite MMORPGs of all time (not sure if GunZ is considered an MMO lol), they were so unique and offered a lot to the genre. They're experiences I enjoyed.
Ragnarok is my first MMORPG from Korea...it was the most incredible time of my gaming life where shits was so hard where everything doesnt dumb down for players to discover, with the lack of Guides or even Community chat we only depends on guild to do almost everything. It was first of its kind...and the last, at least for me.
Very cool history, so surprising I'd never heard of Jake Sung before, despite playing many of his games. Very neat. And Ragnarok Online was my gateway drug to MMOs in highschool. And despite starting WoW near the end of my schooling (shortly after it came out), I returned to Ragnarok Online many times as a poor desperate college student, normally through private servers.
I wasn't expecting to see golden axe in this video. Great video. Being someone who lives in asia though, well, you aren't going to see the monetization change anytime soon because most people here don't really mind it.
Heard you say on another video you were disappointed this one didn't get enough recognition so I went looking to give it a watch, very glad I did. Absolutely fascinating dude, great job 🙂
Absolutely love these types of videos. You are able to research deeply and present it in an easily digestible time and scope. I appreciate the hard work.
Clicked hoping for some Brood War clips, was not disappointed! First you picked that one Proleague Final they held at the beach, their biggest attendance ever, then one of my favourite clips in Free's Reaverreaverreaver! **chef's kiss** selection chief.
Came to watch this after you’d mentioned it in a recent video-not sure how I missed it the first time! I wish it had performed better for you. I know how disappointing it is to have projects like these passed over for quick output by your audience. Whatever you produce, I’ll always watch-whether you go on to make more of these once you have financial security, or you stick with criticism of the gaming market as a whole. You’re an incredibly dedicated, intelligent, & funny person. I enjoy hearing your takes on the market (& individuals therein) just for how tuned-in & aware your commentary is. I hope more people will take the time to watch this video. It’s informative & entertaining, just as your content always is. And I appreciate the work you put into this. Wishing you success my man.
Great video! Lineage 2 was great when it launched in the west, played it from around 2004-2010. It what made me completely miss the wow train. It just looked so much better
Every Korean MMO I've played has been a second job. It's always about doing chores, every day. Sometimes you just say screw it, and go have an adventure - and then you feel bad about it because you're not doing your chores.
It's nice to see how thw gaming scene looks like in other countries. I've always been curious about China with their strict laws. Gaming looks a lot different over there.
Fantastic video from start to finish. My heart admittedly jumped when I heard Ragnarok Online. It's amazing how many people played it, and yet when I bring it up no one knows what I'm talking about. RO was a genius idea. I've been playing on official/private servers since 04 and I don't plan on stopping. I really wish we could get another mmorpg with the 2d/3d hybrid style. After seeing the beauty of games like Octopath Traveler, there's potential to create something truly gorgeous and popular (Hearing myself ramble makes me want to take up scripting and do it myself!).
Great vid! If I may suggest for a video idea, and since you've talked abit about it in here, how about a deep dive on Ragnarok Online? Its history, impact, private servers, and where it is now. I believe that there was a time when RO was the WoW equivalent for many non-English speaking countries, and I'm sure it's the first MMO that comes to mind when you ask those players (rather than WoW).
Thanks for video. I'd like to see more like this doing a deep dive into some aspect of the MMO field. I had no clue about Korean gaming in the past, so it's very interesting to learn how they were pushing the genre just as much if not more than in the west.
As you said, you should do a history of western mmorpg's next... I've been around since Meridian 59 so it should be interesting to see your take on everything.
Loved the random clips sliced in of some amazing games, like SWG even though it's not Korean developed. This type of content is very enjoyable to watch, listen, and digest. We've had a lot of amazing games that either didn't get the recognition they deserved or were ruined for whatever reason. It's too bad, but I criticize the genre, the games and their developers because I care deeply about it all. Despite being burned many times, I am hopeful for the future of MMORPGs.
Awesome video. I followed AA's development since 2009-10 and enjoyed listening to Jake Songs thoughts on the genre and what he was trying to do. Hopefully we get to hear a little more about AA2 in a this year. It sounds like he thinks AA was a little too ambitious so i wonder what he plans on doing differently.
Very interesting video. I was/am more of a strategy player, so I had a vague glimpse into Korean game industry through SC and SC2, but never known the MMORPG side.
Fantastic video, Kira! I really enjoyed this one, I liked your matter-of-fact approach and overall tone. I'll admit that your recent videos about E2 or CoE have partly seemed a little bit too mean for my personal taste, so this is a nice change of pace. While I know the other stuff is "your style" and I wouldn't want you to stop doing that at all, I'm hoping you can work a video like this one into your regular content every now and then. I'd be interested to hear more about the history of western MMOs, but also those of certain franchises or even companies (like gamigo, Pearl Abyss... XD) if you think you can find an angle to make those as interesting as this one. Keep up the good work, mister!
I'd love to see one for western mmos and another video about specific mmos that became popular in specific countries perhaps, like iirc knight online was very popular in Turkey for some reason
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Phenomenal Video. It's funny how it started as a video about ArcheAge that ended up truning into a video about all of online gaming in Korea, because that's how connected it all is.
I'll always love ArcheAge and hate that it never got to live up to the full potential it should have, and so many people don't even know what could have been.
Arseage.
kinda how i feel about Tera. I feel like Tera had the best combat out of any MMO i've played. Holy Trinity with action combat, but the content in the game was so grindy and repetitive with so much RNG it was not worth.
No mention of Darkeden???
Maplestory was the second MMO I ever played and it launched my love for Korean MMO's. My first MMO I ever played was WoW but i was 10 when i started playing and couldn't always afford a subcription monthly as my parents didn't want to put their credit card onto the website every month. I found Maplestory and got hooked on Korean MMOs and have tried probably every single one of them from 2005-2015, the good and the bad ones, Stand outs for me were Flyff, Cabal Online as well as Silkroad Online, you can see a lot of Silkroad in todays Korean MMOs like BDO and Archage. Korea really did revolutionize the Free to play model of gaming.
It also helped that Korean MMO's of the past were very hardware friendly compared to their western counterparts. I remember being ecstatic about having 28fps on WoW in 2005, Maplestory could run on a toaster and so could many of the old Korean MMOs.
Yea the "revolutionized" the free to play MMO....make it so grindy and frustrating people will pay to skip it
I should have play maple story but runescape ate up all my time.
@@samgoff5289 And yet not everyone did pay. This was the age when people were willing to start WoW on launch day and not mind only reaching 60 a week before WoTLK launched. Why is nobody willing to play games like that nowadays? Blame the rushing attitude for the decline in MMOs rather than companies just making business decisions.
@@samgoff5289 it wasn't even remotely like that for maplestory lol. It was legit the ONLY way to progress once they added cubes in. There was no other way to get better items than to purchase gambling "cubes" to augment your gear further (These were not available as ingame drops for over a decade after they were introduced.) The entire game economy revolved around exploits and hacks.
I love this kind of videos honestly, it's mad how some of these games are forgotten by many
It’s insane to see one of my favorite TH-camrs covering Nexus TK. Been playing since I’m 16, I still play now and then.
I haven't touched it in years but I played from about 12 years old or so until a few years ago
Josh Strife Hayes where you at
Player run subpaths would blow his mind
Did you ever play Dark Ages by chance?
@@Sephiroso. Mayyyybe? Its been so long…. it’s possible I tried it with a rogue friend from NTK, but I eventually went back to EQ
I truly am sad that a lot of these new MMORPGS have just turned into places for showing the size of your wallet via a cash shop instead of worlds in which stories are told and made
That was the common theme I saw while making this video. Every old forum thread, every video showing old footage of worlds gone by was filled with people telling the same stories. Of how they would adventure in a world that didn't hold their hand, meet friends, make stories and fall in love with the genre.
Not lost ark
@@jonathansoko1085 No one claimed it to be noah's ark, just that it isn't an mmorpg that's just about the size of your wallet. Nice strawman though.
I played Lineage 2 for ~10 years. It gave me 3 best friends of 15 years and taught me how to manage people and talk to them. It is also the only reason I'm interested in Ashes of Creation. I hope AoC becomes the same mmo for me as L2 was back then.
Definitely do more of these Kira, I enjoy your content quite a bit but documentaries hit different. Excellent job, keep it up, I look forward to what else you will come up with.
P.S. DFO is bad ass, Glacial Master ftw plays so smooth.
Thanks dude! Gonna check out dfo over the next few days and make a video too
@@KiraTV1 You can catch the tail end of the speed up progression event for the new Spectre subclass if u want to get into the meat of the game quicker for review purposes it ends on the 18th. Though it doesnt have msq in that event mode.
Though it only wares the skin of a beat'em up now a days, it stopped rly being one after leveling in 2016 when they added raids, that work like Alliance raids in ff14. the gearing is inbetween diablo and poe imo, with over 40 end game sets u can mix and match untill the new expansion in a few months.
Have the current highest raid trailer feeling all epic
th-cam.com/video/DVBTU2H5HLM/w-d-xo.html
Then a new weekly dungeon in the next expansion feeling like a little retro
th-cam.com/video/1gdLSZI6EPc/w-d-xo.html
You seem to have a knack for researching and presenting “academic” material in a clear and digestible manner. I hope you continue to produce this type of content in parallel to the scam mmo videos. While I enjoy hearing about Arya Realty, Earth 2, Chronicles of Elyria, etc., it has become a bit one note when that’s the only topic covered. Keep up the great work! Cheers!
Considering the amount of work that goes into videos like this and the risk they are to make based on that, it isn't content I can justify doing all the time. This is my worst performing video in weeks and took 20x as much time and mental labor. If I can knock out an e2 video in a couple hours and get a bunch more clicks and ad rev, it makes doing a ton of work and research less attractive. I still do them and will continue but until I'm financially secure in my life it'll not be all the time
Thanks for this video - despite having played a number of Korean mmos, I was not aware of some of these, and had no idea the success of Dungeon Fighter. I hope both regions will come to understand that players have little patience for overly monetized mmos. A lot of people say they did not like subscription models, but for the most part the content was not being cut into smaller portions as a result as we see so often today.
Absolovely love this kind of content! It's always nice to learn new stuff about the thing you're passionate about and this video format where you did all the hard work for us to sit back, relax and soak it all in is amazing! Thank you for taking the time to put this together, it's much appreciated.
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Maplestory was my first ever MMO. I played it for so many years in my childhood. I didn't even know it was the first ever f2p mmorpg. It was such an amazing game.
Meanwhile theres boycott of maplestory going on right now
It's still a great game today but only when it works lol, the global version of it is is full of technical issues and Nexon NA is 100% incompetent.
dungeon fighter online is still a pretty fun game, i can imagine it being massively popular in korea. super fast paced, only issue i had with it was that i could feel arthritis racking up on my fingers with the amount of button mashing and finger dexterity you need for it.
You should have used Key Mapping Software to bind on a Gamepad. The Key to using a Gamepad in DFO is binding Keys to the Analog Joysticks. You can spin the stick and dump big attacks if need be. I had a Summoner and a M. Ben.
Yup Ragnarok Online was my introduction to the MMORPG genre as well. First time I played a MMORPG, even though it was only a 2 week open Beta. I loved it, but the idea of paying per month for a game was still very foreign to me (granted we didn't had fast internet till years later, so to me online gaming was very new while the rest of the Western World was already more used to it). I loved being a Accolyte selling town portals and be what you know in WoW as the Flight Master seeing there was no fast travel :) Man I miss that in MMORPG's, people are so spoiled with conveniance that actually having players depend on each other is none excistant anymore :( Well I get it, seeing the avarage MMORPG these day's last as long as the first month, maybe 3 before the massive decline unless being one of the big names, so it would be unplayable if people need to depend on each other while there is hardly anyone around.
Played a lot of beta's back then, all eastern MMO's, my first Western MMO was Star Wars Galaxies the trial version and first sub based MMO that I paid for was WoW, but I'll always think back of Ragnarok Online, it still has it's charms for me how the game looked like. Even though there was hardly anything to do then walk around killing stuff. No quests that I can remember. Dungeons were fun though, just being in the open world so people just walked in.
Very informative. Thanks Ash. I have always focused on NA based MMO. I was aware of several of the titles you spoke about but the sheer masses of people playing them surprised me. Nice video.
This is one of your best videos so far, informative and entertaining.
Deserves to have much more views :(
Really great work on this. You caught several points I didn't know. This is the type of thing I can use professionally to help catch people up on a part of the genre they may not know much about, so I really hope you do more like this.
Kira releasing another banger again
Enjoy dude!
This was amazing and always a surprise that I know so little about the history of MMORPGs. Thank you!
Good job Kira. Would love to see a history of the Western MMO. Some nostalgia!
Great work on this video. 🤘🏼
This is awesome! Thanks for taking me back on a journey of my childhood, and back to the days of authentic and awesome MMOs!
Keep up the awesome work, and thank you for taking the time to make this a quality video! I wish more people would check this out, so you could continue to make great stuff like this! (Also, your Kickstarter videos rock as well!)
This was really good! Would LOVE a piece on western MMOs as well!
This was a wonderful video to watch and learn about. Thanks for all the time you spent researching to make this!
This was epic. I would say yes to the Western MMORPG history as well. Maybe even other regions like Europe, Russia, etc.
Aion was my first true love to the genre that i could never stop playing. I played mmorpg's before Aion but Aion pulled me in like no other.
I still remember playing M.U., Ragnarok Online, Lineage 2 and other Korean MMORPG, they were a griiiiiiiiiiiiiind but so good, some of my best high school years memories are playing these games with my friends, and now I haven't played a Korean MMORPG for years, not sure it's the decline of Korean MMORPG or just me.
Really entertaining and interesting video! I learned a lot that I didn't know previously and would love to see you make either some deeper dives on topics you touched on here (like PC bangs and wider gaming culture in Korea) or to see this topic expanded to cover MMO/gaming culture in other markets (the West, Japan, Russia, etc).
I feel like you provided a deeper look at a gaming culture most of us in your audience know nothing about, while also skimming over some really interesting topics for the sake of brevity (not a bad thing, gotta satisfy that algorithm, I know). But it's clear you researched a lot for this video, and I'd love nothing more than to learn more from that research on this topic or the aforementioned related ones. Great job!
I was playing Lineage II (interlude) while watching this video, an incredible game which stood the test of time pretty well.
ArcheAge had such a big potential to become next big MMORPG, but failed due to greedy marketing and short sight of the publishers.
Excellent video, I've been playing MMOs in the UK since Legend of Mir 2 came over so its very interesting to see the bigger picture that I wasn't aware of as a kid and how it affected gaming so widely!
If there is more to the story of Jake Song or Archeage, i would love to hear more of what you have to say about it. I know these type of videos take alot of research and effort. Thank you for the content!
interesting. a glimpse into the pocket universe (south)korea. i thought it the sheer ammount in manhwa produced (my contact point^^) would be astonishing enough. happy new year kira.
As a european gamer the korean culture is one of the most fascinating to me. I really appreciate this type of "documentary" content. Since my first contact with MMOs was WoW, it would be great to hear about the history of western MMOs.
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I've been watching a lot of history of MMORPG/RPG video games in general, and while a lot of series focus on Japan and the U.S., they only touch on the Korean side of things. This has been very interesting and and informative video. Thank you.
Great video ! I'm learning korean at uni and been there as an exchange student, when winter came I remember spending so much time in the pcbang in front of my uni. Great time !
Ragnarok Online is one example of online game done right. It's still massively popular here in Asia.
Not really into eastern games but I love this kind of in depth videos. Loved the video. Great job man! Hopefully we can get more like this on different MMO-related stories/subjects?
Never knew about this baller OG.
Thank you.
Great presentation btw. Also, your audio balancing is top tier.
I loved this format! Hope we can see more like this
Ragnarok online, Maplestory, FlyFF, MU online, GunZ: The Duel (one of my all time favorites), Vindictus, TERA. The memories man. Even though these weren't my favorite MMORPGs of all time (not sure if GunZ is considered an MMO lol), they were so unique and offered a lot to the genre. They're experiences I enjoyed.
GunZ butterfly stepping gave me arthritis long before my skateboard ever could.
Ragnarok is my first MMORPG from Korea...it was the most incredible time of my gaming life where shits was so hard where everything doesnt dumb down for players to discover, with the lack of Guides or even Community chat we only depends on guild to do almost everything.
It was first of its kind...and the last, at least for me.
Oh man. MUDs really brought me back.
Thanks for the video, Kira. It was nice to hear about the parallels I was relatively unfamiliar with.
Very cool history, so surprising I'd never heard of Jake Sung before, despite playing many of his games. Very neat. And Ragnarok Online was my gateway drug to MMOs in highschool. And despite starting WoW near the end of my schooling (shortly after it came out), I returned to Ragnarok Online many times as a poor desperate college student, normally through private servers.
I wasn't expecting to see golden axe in this video. Great video. Being someone who lives in asia though, well, you aren't going to see the monetization change anytime soon because most people here don't really mind it.
this is one of the main reasons we subscribe to you man, go above and beyond the requirements of 'the holy algorithm'
Heard you say on another video you were disappointed this one didn't get enough recognition so I went looking to give it a watch, very glad I did. Absolutely fascinating dude, great job 🙂
Thanks dude
Amazing video! I usually don't comment and just consume but man, massive gratz on the job done!
Loved it, super informative!
Absolutely love these types of videos. You are able to research deeply and present it in an easily digestible time and scope. I appreciate the hard work.
Great work!
Keep up doing those kind of documentaries, they are enjoyable and interesting to watch :)
Clicked hoping for some Brood War clips, was not disappointed! First you picked that one Proleague Final they held at the beach, their biggest attendance ever, then one of my favourite clips in Free's Reaverreaverreaver! **chef's kiss** selection chief.
Your documentary style videos are my second favorite of yours.
Really enjoyed this style of video. Would be amazing to see one on Brad McQuaid from Everquest/Vanguard. Great work!
And even how he started Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen!
Came to watch this after you’d mentioned it in a recent video-not sure how I missed it the first time! I wish it had performed better for you. I know how disappointing it is to have projects like these passed over for quick output by your audience. Whatever you produce, I’ll always watch-whether you go on to make more of these once you have financial security, or you stick with criticism of the gaming market as a whole. You’re an incredibly dedicated, intelligent, & funny person. I enjoy hearing your takes on the market (& individuals therein) just for how tuned-in & aware your commentary is. I hope more people will take the time to watch this video. It’s informative & entertaining, just as your content always is. And I appreciate the work you put into this. Wishing you success my man.
Really enjoyed this look through the history of a genre I have sunk thousands of hours into!
Nice non negative video about video games. Good job!
Nice job on this. You did a ton of research. You should continue doing this type of work. You're very good at it.
great video , really enjoyed the history thank you
Wow, this was really interesting and detailed. :) Very good work Kira! :)
Love when you do content like this man. Great upload
Great video!
Lineage 2 was great when it launched in the west, played it from around 2004-2010. It what made me completely miss the wow train. It just looked so much better
L2 during early years was fantastic for sure
@@KiraTV1 Same, after having played Lineage II, WoW had never been an option in my world.
Every Korean MMO I've played has been a second job. It's always about doing chores, every day. Sometimes you just say screw it, and go have an adventure - and then you feel bad about it because you're not doing your chores.
Nice video Kira! Very informative and really puts things into perspective.
Love to see this kind of content from you, great job Kira
great video, this needs more attention! exactly the kind of content i enjoy
It's nice to see how thw gaming scene looks like in other countries. I've always been curious about China with their strict laws. Gaming looks a lot different over there.
Great work! This is the type of content I have subscribed for.
Will Kira turn into a 'Kim Justice'-like documentary maker? I hope so! Great video Kira, keep it up 👍
I'm glad you mentioned this video in the Mir video, TH-cam didn't tell me about this at all :((
This was an enlightening video for sure, thank you!
Fantastic video from start to finish. My heart admittedly jumped when I heard Ragnarok Online. It's amazing how many people played it, and yet when I bring it up no one knows what I'm talking about. RO was a genius idea. I've been playing on official/private servers since 04 and I don't plan on stopping. I really wish we could get another mmorpg with the 2d/3d hybrid style. After seeing the beauty of games like Octopath Traveler, there's potential to create something truly gorgeous and popular (Hearing myself ramble makes me want to take up scripting and do it myself!).
Great video! Super interesting to watch and a really fun topic, tyvm!
Great vid! If I may suggest for a video idea, and since you've talked abit about it in here, how about a deep dive on Ragnarok Online? Its history, impact, private servers, and where it is now. I believe that there was a time when RO was the WoW equivalent for many non-English speaking countries, and I'm sure it's the first MMO that comes to mind when you ask those players (rather than WoW).
These deep dive videos are awesome. Hopefully they pay off enough to be worth it because they’re very interesting.
Great Video! Very informative and interesting. Keep up the good work!
An amazing insight. Thanks for all your hard work, Kira.
This is great stuff, Kira. Would love to see more 👍
Thanks for video. I'd like to see more like this doing a deep dive into some aspect of the MMO field.
I had no clue about Korean gaming in the past, so it's very interesting to learn how they were pushing the genre just as much if not more than in the west.
Very nice video! Thnx a lot for the research Kira!
This was a great watch, thanks Kira!
Great video! Love this type of content. Hope you make more. :)
Great video - would love more of these deep dives!
As you said, you should do a history of western mmorpg's next... I've been around since Meridian 59 so it should be interesting to see your take on everything.
Nice one KiraTV I appreciate your work
Loved the random clips sliced in of some amazing games, like SWG even though it's not Korean developed. This type of content is very enjoyable to watch, listen, and digest. We've had a lot of amazing games that either didn't get the recognition they deserved or were ruined for whatever reason. It's too bad, but I criticize the genre, the games and their developers because I care deeply about it all. Despite being burned many times, I am hopeful for the future of MMORPGs.
A condensed and concise video. Loved it.
Great video! I knew Jake Song was behind ArcheAge but I didn't realize he had such a resume.
Loved this as a game design student. Fascinating stuff!
Awesome video. I followed AA's development since 2009-10 and enjoyed listening to Jake Songs thoughts on the genre and what he was trying to do. Hopefully we get to hear a little more about AA2 in a this year. It sounds like he thinks AA was a little too ambitious so i wonder what he plans on doing differently.
amazing video, keep these deep dives coming
I really like this format, more deep dives would be great to see
Very interesting video. I was/am more of a strategy player, so I had a vague glimpse into Korean game industry through SC and SC2, but never known the MMORPG side.
great video bud. commend the effort you put into this
Would love to watch this kind of content from you 👏 thank you for this great video
Fantastic video, Kira! I really enjoyed this one, I liked your matter-of-fact approach and overall tone. I'll admit that your recent videos about E2 or CoE have partly seemed a little bit too mean for my personal taste, so this is a nice change of pace. While I know the other stuff is "your style" and I wouldn't want you to stop doing that at all, I'm hoping you can work a video like this one into your regular content every now and then. I'd be interested to hear more about the history of western MMOs, but also those of certain franchises or even companies (like gamigo, Pearl Abyss... XD) if you think you can find an angle to make those as interesting as this one. Keep up the good work, mister!
hope you will do more of these History videos. Love it so much.
Great video. I feal like a lot was cut from this video but it leaves me wanting more.
Fantastic Video. Really enjoyed it.
Awesome video!
Super enjoyable video Kira
good stuff this Kira. very very decent content pal
I'd love to see one for western mmos and another video about specific mmos that became popular in specific countries perhaps, like iirc knight online was very popular in Turkey for some reason
Great video Kira - keep up the good work 🤜💥🤛
P.S.
Was that Paul Rudd in the Nintendo commercial??