Throne and Liberty Next Gen Gaming Experience — TL

TL is a next-gen massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG), coming to the global market in the first half of 2023 on PC and consoles.

Next Gen Gaming Experience

Global Gaming Company NCSOFT Chooses Workspot and Google Cloud to Deliver Next Generation Gaming Experience.

Workspot and GCP are providing NCSOFT with the capabilities to monitor the quality and availability of their online gaming services around the world.

CAMPBELL, Calif.—-Workspot, the Cloud PC company, announced that NCSOFT, the global video game developer and publisher of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG), including Lineage, Guild Wars, Throne and Liberty, has partnered with Workspot and Google Cloud to power the best gaming experience for users across 60 countries.

“NCSOFT was looking for ways to optimize their global gaming platform with the user experience in mind,” said Jimmy Chang, Chief Product Officer at Workspot. “In conjunction with Google Cloud, we are able to provide NCSOFT with a Cloud PC solution that monitors the gaming environment, allows them to experience what end users are experiencing globally, optimize performance, and take action in real time to mitigate a disruption. We are pleased to further NCSOFT’s goal of providing the highest quality gaming experience.”

NCSOFT needed a computing environment that could replicate the real-world environments for their tens of thousands of users around the world. The main objective was to monitor NCSOFT’s online servers 24/7, 365 days a year, using the same network and OS environments as the real users, enabling the NCSOFT team to anticipate adverse conditions and respond when an anomaly is detected. After testing a variety of vendors, the company selected Workspot, as it also supports GPU cloud workloads for gaming users, provides high-performance Windows environments – all based on Google Cloud – and is able to meet the company’s requirements for global reach, scalability and flexibility.

“NCSOFT has been working closely with Google for a long time, operating numerous servers across Google Cloud regions globally,” said Youngmin Noh, Executive Director of NCSOFT Platform Center. “We have built a gaming platform in two to three layers to ensure an outstanding user experience. Our collaboration with Workspot adds an additional layer that takes the quality of our services to new heights, all aimed at delighting our customers.”

Since September 2022, NCSOFT has been using Workspot Cloud PCs to establish a monitoring system for their service environments — including login, payment and customer center — in several Google Cloud regions around the world. Through this collaboration, the company has already seen great results that exceeded expectations, including detecting and responding faster to failures in six specific countries, as well as identifying ways to improve the user experience. Examples of challenges the company mitigated recently included payment service unavailability for users in Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia, as well as a login service failure in the UK, USA and Brazil.

“As the games industry continues to evolve, organizations around the globe need technologies and solutions that help maximize IT flexibility, security, scalability, and innovation,” said Amitabh Jacob, Director of Technology Partnerships, Google Cloud Asia Pacific. “By leveraging Google Cloud’s flexible, global infrastructure alongside Workspot Cloud PCs, NCSOFT can focus on delivering reliable access and outstanding performance to their gaming users at global scale.”

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Decoding the “Next-Gen” Hype

NCSoft’s official website reveals that one of the things the developers are trying to focus on is to make field play as enjoyable as possible. Going through the same areas should feel enjoyable and weather plays a major role in Throne and Liberty. If there are strong winds, you may find some of your projectiles swaying away. Or if there is rain, your lightning powers will be enhanced. 

These weather effects seek to shake things up for players even when they are doing the same activities time and again. There will also be new random enemy encounters and the terrain will also change over time. For example, the underwater sewers will fill up during heavy rain and you will be forced out of the underground areas. 

In addition to making the experience dynamic, NCSoft also wants to give players a sense of control. For example, players will be able to create rainstorms or even eclipses. How exactly we will be able to do these things is currently unknown, but it definitely sounds exciting.