Blade and Soul Europe 2015 GRAND OPPENING

Today at Gamescom I had the chance to meet the product manager of BnS EU/NA.
Talked to her for a while about their plans for BnS.

Please take everything with a grain of salt

• Release date is aimed at 2015 (rather late)
• Client base will be Chinese client.
• Fatigue system might not be present (she strongly dislikes it but as I understood there are no concrete plans yet)
• Warlock class will not be included initially
• They will most likely have PvP and PvE servers.
• Plans are that you will still choose your faction on PvP server but there won't be a need to equip PvP dobok to attack players.
• You will most likely not be able to change faction on PvP servers.
• Edit: Game will be a f2p model but not interely free (I have no idea what she meant with that... But i kinda don't like the sound of that. Maybe its jusz B2P?)

I will see if she will be there tomorrow agan. If you guys have questions (be reasonable) post them here and I will see what I can do.
Since it seems some people don't believe me I'll also try to get a picture tomorrow :)

EDIT WITH UPDATE ON SECOND PAGE.

Got some questions answered

But first of all. She will drop by the weeks and say hi. She will also do an AMA soon. Be nice guys she is really nice as well and happy that there still is a big community like ours for BnS.

We also got a photo done! It's on her phone so dunno what she's gonna do. But I know I got prove now!

Finally here are some answers.

Why delay
Many reasons. One big main reason are techincal differences in the clients. As an example Tera (good ping and fps in korea but horrible in EU mainly because how much faster the internet in korea is)
They know how important ping is.

We also know another reason ;)


PvP
Bigger focus on pvp overall (especially owpvp since arena is already there)
Tournis is a yes / same for esports. She mentioned the korean tournis as an example.

Payment model
No decision

lvlcap/content on release
Don't know yet

No gamescom?
Because they where simply not ready for it. She doesn't know wether they will be at E3 or not. At least it wasnt a definite no :)

Multiple Servernodes
She is aware of how important ping is and is already looking into multiple solutions.

Beta
Early 2015


That's what I got for now. I did look at all questions you asked. The ones that are not listed, didn't have an answer.

She also talked about the light and dark path in endgame and leaving people more choice there but I've never seen that so dunno maybe someone can elaborate.

There also is an open position for a community manager on the NCSOFT wich is for BnS.