Tree of Savior International Beta Update

Often referred to as the true successor to the ever popular MMORPG, Ragnarok Online, Tree of Savior has been slowly making progress in its country of development, Korea. However, international fans are often forced to paw at the scraps of information given by imcGAMES. This is why there was a big surprise earlier today when the legendary "Father of Korean Online Games" and CEO of imcGAMES, Kim Hakkyu posted an update himself on the official blog.

He talked about the current status of Tree of Savior's international test version, mostly elaborating on how the translation process was happening. Most importantly, he mentioned that while there is no confirmed date for the international test release, it would most likely happen after the second Korean closed beta test.

Rather than strive for 100% accuracy and thus delay development, Tree of Savior will use something called OTC (open text client) whereby testers can edit language packs stored client side as .tsv files (think spreadsheets) in plain text.

This is a novel attempt to crowd source translation work and promises not only to hasten English translation work, but also to make Tree of Savior available in dozens of smaller languages thanks to volunteers across the world.

The blog post also reveals that the company has not yet decided on an overseas server provider yet, but a strong candidate for the job is Amazon AWS. Players on the international service will also be able to log in securely and conveniently using their Facebook or Google+ accounts.

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For more details, check the official blog post.