The Crimson Legion believes that hierarchy isn’t worth the trouble and this is the reason why the two factions have started to fight. While the Cerulean Order wants to eventually gain control using their military precision, the Crimson Order doesn’t believe that having any kind of a formal government has ever helped anyone. On the other side, the Crimson Legion is more of a group that has been stepped on and kept down over the years. The Cerulean Order is the most militant of the fighting factions that are trying to put the world back together. Their own war has thrown the world of this game into quite a bit of turmoil. Beyond the battles between these two factions, the evil forces are made up of the Stratus and the Talus. The two factions are the Cerulean Order and the Crimson Legion. Characters in the game are not only fighting against each other but are also training at the same time and learning new skills and moves along the way. The conflict has come because the two factions cannot agree as to how they should go about wiping out this evil. The premise of Blade & Soul is that there are two Martial Arts Factions that are both sworn to wipe out evil. It was during this announcement that NCSoft said it expected to be able to launch Blade & Soul in the first quarter of 2015 in both North America and Europe. The company said that while other perks would come along with the founders packs that were purchased, gamers would get special perks inside the game when the open beta launches. The company announced that there are three editions of Blade & Soul Founder’s Packs, all of which offered access to Closed Beta and Head Start access.
In August, NCSoft announced that it would be offering “Founders Packs” to go along with the open beta. The company is planning the first close beta to kick off on October 30 but there will be a minimum of five beta weekends spanning at least 20 days. The company says these weekends will give players a chance to test gameplay and performance prior to the title’s official release in the first quarter of 2016. The firm also announced it will be hosting a closed beta on October 30, 2015.
On May 20, 2015, the company officially announced it would be coming to the United States, Canada and Europe. The first closed beta testing for the game in the Asian market was held in 2011 and went well enough that they eventually launched the game in Korea in 2012, China in 2013 and Japan and Taiwan in 2014. Since that announcement there has not been any more news about whether or not either game is actually going to be translated to any consoles.
In 2010, it was announced that Blade & Soul, as well as Guild Wars 2 were coming to both the PS3 and the Xbox 360. The original game was announced way back at E3 2007 and Sony announced that it would eventually be bringing the game to PS3. The firm announced back in 2012 that they would be bringing their very popular fantasy martial arts MMORPG from Asian markets to Europe and North America. Team Bloodlust is an in-house development team offshoot of the larger NCSoft company.