PK Gaming Communities // The Secret World // TSW to launch 19th June
Durham, USA – February 21st, 2012 –Independent developer and publisher of online games, Funcom, today announced that the highly anticipated massively multiplayer online role-playing game ‘The Secret World’ will launch on June 19th, 2012. Originally slated for an April launch, Funcom has decided to invest more development time into the title in order to apply even more polish before launch.
Feedback from hands-on press events and beta testing has proven very positive, and Funcom intends to spend the additional development time focusing on polish and tweaking to maximize the potential of the game. The beta feedback so far is showing very positive reactions to core game features such as the role-playing systems, combat, missions, dungeons, story and immersion. Among the beta testers surveyed, almost 9 out of 10 say they will play the game at launch.
More than 750,000 gamers are now registered as beta testers, which is significantly higher than Funcom’s previous MMO ‘Age of Conan’ had at the same point in development. Funcom expects the number of beta registrations to grow significantly in the coming months, as the company ramps up its major PR and marketing initiatives towards launch.
“Allowing for even more time to polish the game really shows just how much faith Funcom as a company has in ‘The Secret World’and how committed we are to making it the best it can be,” says Creative Director and Senior Producer Ragnar Tørnquist. “The additional time will also allow us to carry out even more quality beta testing, and soon we will also be announcing several public beta events where hundreds of thousands of gamers will get to test the game prior to launch.”
‘The Secret World’ is consistently mentioned as one of the most anticipated MMO’s in development. Mainstream publications such as Forbes and The Guardian have both listed‘The Secret World’ as a game to watch out for in 2012, and the game has also been singled out as one of the most anticipated games of 2012 by gaming sites such as G4TV, VideoGamer, and RockPaperShotgun. Leading technology website VentureBeat highlighted ‘The Secret World’ as one of the top new game brands of 2012, and over at MMORPG.com the game was given the ‘Rising Star’ in the site’s Reader’s Choice Awards.
Following the first hands-on press event last year, ‘The Secret World’ was heralded as “one of the most distinctive MMO’s of the last 10 years” (Videogamer) and MMORPG.com went on to predict that “The Secret World is going to take the world by storm and set new standards in excellence in gameplay.” This month, Funcom is doing another extensive round of hands-on sessions with select press, showcasing all new content and mechanics. New press previews are expected to hit later this week following the hands-on events held throughout February where journalists from over 50 outlets worldwide attended.
’The Secret World’ is published by Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA). Those looking to join the ongoing beta test can sign up via the official site at www.thesecretworld.com.
Source: thesecretworld.com
So now the votes are over, and Pandion Knights have declared by 28 votes we will be rolling Illuminati "Sex, Drugs & Rockefeller"...
With 63 votes thats a nice starting amount of players, thank you all for voting and the few telling us why you chose certain factions. With SWTOR, Rift, GW2 and other games Pandion Knights will get bigger with a wide difference of players. We have players from all over the world and i'm proud to be leading with Kaas Pandion Knights in a new game. Beta is around the corner and then launch. I'd like to thank the Global Admins for the help they have given and the trust they put into us Game Admins even though we might break stuff T_T.
Let's see how beta will run and the coming months.
Let 2012 be a great time for old and new games.
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Pandion Knights RIFT guild on Blightweald is currently looking for a few clerics and a rogue who's primary focus is on barding, to fill our ranks and be part of our casual raiding community.
Just send someone in game a tell or apply on our forums :)
At first we didn't pay much attention to the guild level however slowly we made it even a goal to make all three quests done in one week and even had the whole guild work for it :) (i.e. running dungeons in bulk, doing loads or rifts etc).
All this hard work has now paid off and we have reached the max level. Well done boys and girls :)
Well done boys and girls!
The co-operation among two separate teams was wonderful more or less. We still need a bit more co-ordination in ranged group (and yes, it's a tad harder than in melee), but if we master it, we are uber! (Okay, I may be biased here, but I don't really care).
Getting past the "separate group phase" means basically you have more or less killed the boss. I'm proud of you all :)
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The Secret World is a new MMO from Funcom. The game is set in the modern day and incorporates pieces of ancient mythologies, real and false history and urban legends such as the Bogeyman. PK will be supporting this game in the very near future.
ArenaNet's Guild Wars 2 is our second big supported game of 2012. Set in the fantasy world of Tyria this MMORPG features a persistent world and instanced environments. The Quests system promises to be unique with iuts dynamic event system and a synergy of crafting and combat.
