{"id":4679,"date":"2008-08-11T15:53:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T22:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4679"},"modified":"2013-03-15T18:49:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T01:49:53","slug":"yedangs-wicked-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/yedangs-wicked-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Yedang&#8217;s Wicked Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6377\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6377\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6377\" alt=\"Yedang's Priston Tale II is set for a U.S. release.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/Priston-II-S.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"166\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yedang&#8217;s Priston Tale II is set for a U.S. release.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AUG. 11, 2008 \u2022 Top South Korean MMO publisher Yedang Online enters into a strategic partnership with Toronto-based start-up Wicked Interactive for the latter to publish Yedang&#8217;s primary properties in North America. Games expected to be released by Wicked include Priston Tale, Priston Tale II, and Ace Online.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\" data-mce-mark=\"1\"><em>Impact:\u00a0Yedang has been publishing online games in South\u00a0Korea since 1999.\u00a0 Like most Korean publishers a high priority goal is expanding into international markets.\u00a0 In almost all cases this has required finding a local partner in each territory. Most Korean products have struggled to find a worldwide audience.\u00a0In North America, Ace Online was actually available from Gala-Net as Space Cowboy Online. In December 2007, Yedang announced they were no longer allowing Gala-Net to operate the game.\u00a0 Priston Tale has been around since 2002, and an English version has been available for several years.\u00a0Priston Tale started as a pay-to-play game, but last year went to a free game with virtual item sales business model.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUG. 11, 2008 \u2022 Top South Korean MMO publisher Yedang Online enters into a strategic partnership with Toronto-based start-up Wicked Interactive for the latter to publish Yedang&#8217;s primary properties in North America. Games expected to be released by Wicked include Priston Tale, Priston Tale II, and Ace Online. Impact:\u00a0Yedang has been publishing online games in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6376,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions\/6376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}