Hellgate’s Performance in Korea
Credit for this news goes to one of Flagshipped.com’s users who reported this to their website. However it’s just solid facts and information so no harm reporting on it here.
Gamechart.kr is a Korean website that basically has software installed in most Korean PC Bangs (which are basically internet cafes) which records what games are played and how often. As PC Bangs are very popular ways to play games in Korea they show the general trend of the country.
Going to the Gamerchart website, you can see a list of it’s top 15 games on the front page. However clicking the MMORPG link on the left takes you to a list filtered just for those. On that list, you can see Hellgate London as sitting at number 11 on the list. Clicking on it takes you to another page which shows the graph of Hellgate’s playtime performance. You can see that in the last month of being out in Korea it has fallen from 9th to 20th place overall.
Sad to see the game do so badly only after a month or so, specially seeing that Korea was seen as such a strong market for the game. Hopefully there is still some chance for a turn around come the new patches as Hellgate does have a lot of potential behind it, at least in my opinion.
Enjoy… i guess… 
