AusGamers:
Back in 2006, Codemasters Online Gaming announced they were launching a new game, claiming that this new, eagerly-anticipated free-to-play MMO would give one player the power to rule the world.
That game was ArchLord, and it had been running in Korea for a little while before launching into the rest of the world. Two years later, the game broke through the 500k player milestone, forming part of a passionate gaming community.
A mere twelve months after that, Codemasters found themselves unable to renew their distribution contract with the Korean developers, NHN, and were forced to close down the game's Western territory servers. A third company, WEBZEN - actually a subsidiary of NHN games, picked up (some of) the pieces, offering gamers free transfers to their new servers.
After the closure of the English global server, the Korean version for Archlord will be closing on 13th February as well. Developer Webzen claims the reason as “being unable to provide players with a stable environment”.
Webzen recently announced the closure of Archlord on 1st January 2014, which was the English global server in the company’s game portal. First launching in August of 2009, the lack of new features and regular updates once again proved a game’s downfall.
Webzen will be celebrating 3rd year anniversary of Archlord. Archlord was launched worldwide since October 2009, and it has been receiving increasing recognition from a vast number of MMORPG users for its various PvP contents and the recent introduction of the new expansion 'The Dark Revelation'.
