MMOEXP: Experience Blade and Soul NEO the game
Easy answer. Throne and Liberty is published by Amazon, it's not an NC America BnS NEO Divine Gems game, so it's a different publisher. This publishing team is only a year and a half old, we have a staff of 30-35 people. We're really establishing ourselves as a new publisher. Our mandate from NCSoft is to use the Purple launcher, and as we progress through this year and the next, we'll be looking at all the different platforms we can.
That's a really good question. I've been blown away by our own community in our Discord and our live player base - they're really passionate. They're excited about Neo, they're still eager to play Live, but will try out Neo for sure. I can't predict whether they'll leave Live behind as they're still so passionate, but of course they're going to try Neo and make their own decision on what version is right for them. The two versions are wildly different, so that's a question that'll be answered shortly.
If we look at the community, a lot of the hype has been from returning users joining our Discord, who maybe tried Blade and Soul back when it launched, have all of these great memories, and they're back to see what this new game is all about. But also, it's been interesting to see a lot of new players who have no idea what Blade and Soul is. So we have a lot of potential with people who missed it There are new generations that have missed it, they weren't here for the beginning of the MMO rise, so it's been important for us to realize there's a massive market for new players as well.
Also, if I may add to the Purple thing, we've been using Purple for a year plus, all three of our games and a buy BnS Classic Divine Gems game we have all exist on Purple. So it's kind of an old hat for us, but it's getting new features that we're excited to show to a new audience.