AeriaGames LaTale Update
July 26th, 2009 @ 8:49 am by KunoichiZero
Several people have asked me what the deal is with Aeria and LaTale. Basically it’s a regional thing. Aeria is to be the publisher for LaTale in Europe now since they didn’t officially have one. OGPlanet will remain the US publisher, unfortunately. But Aeria will not be closing their version to the rest of the world, and as far as I know, neither will OGP.
The reason I care at all, personally, is because OGPlanet’s version doesn’t work with Windows7, and the responses I’ve gotten back from their ‘support’ on the issue seem to indicate that they know there’s a problem, but they don’t care, and don’t expect anyone to even start working on the problem until several months after Win7′s official release. That, coupled with their dropping of Pangya earlier this year, forcing that game’s developer to take over publishing duties as well, really doesn’t leave me very happy with OGP, and even though I love LaTale, as a customer I’d also love to deal with someone, anyone but OGP.
Sadly, Aeria’s version seems to need a bit of work. It’s in Closed Beta right now, and there are a lot of people complaining of in-game lag, and it doesn’t seem to make any difference where people are connecting from. And with a game like this, a .5 second delay between the time you enter commands and the time you see a response from your character, really makes it unplayable. They’re also missing the new ‘Machinist’ job class.
Here’s hoping that will be fixed soon.