
When Kakao introduced ArcheAge S: Strait of Freedom final week, we had been all a bit surprised on the revelation, however apparently we simply wanted to wait for the investor call, which… really makes the weirdness swirling across the franchise an excellent deeper shade of bizarre.
Based on co-CEO Lee Si-woo, the market “misplaced confidence” in Kakao’s rollout schedule – honest, given how many times it’s delayed games. Consequently, Kakao retooled its pipeline and now says the present time schedule is locked in, with a concentrate on its “core competitiveness in MMORPGs” – although MMOs aren’t its solely focus.
What’s on that schedule? ArcheAge Chronicles is the one we’re watching most intently, and it’s nonetheless coming in This fall, astonishingly – or a minimum of, Steam early entry is coming in This fall. It’s additionally apparently reverted again to publishing below XL Video games.
That’ll be adopted by the aforementioned ArcheAge S, which is about for 2027 within the appendix’s recreation listing, additionally being printed in-house by XL Video games. This one actually does sound just like the ArcheAge 2 MMORPG gamers really needed, a minimum of.
Then there’s Chrono Odyssey, which continues to be slated for 2027 – however a minimum of it stayed on the chart.
And naturally, let’s not overlook the entire “income” half: Kakao’s income slumped 35% since Q2 2025, owing closely to the truth that all of the stuff in its pipeline nonetheless isn’t out. Reddit identified that it doesn’t seem that Kakao is displaying something apart from God Save Birmingham at Gamescom this yr.
One final observe: Invenglobal’s transcription of the investor name features a very juicy quote from co-CEO Kim Tae-hwan particularly in regard to MMORPGs.
“Lastly, we’re researching video games and content material for customers aged 50 and older worldwide, and we count on to indicate tangible outcomes beginning in Q3 of subsequent yr.”
• Kakao Q2 2026: ArcheAge Chronicles hits early access this year as Kakao centers MMOs and older gamers
• Kakao Q4 2025: Kakao has delayed ArcheAge Chronicles and Chrono Odyssey yet again
• Kakao Q3 2025: Chrono Odyssey plans beta in early 2026 as ArcheAge Chronicles’ timeline waffles
• Kakao Q2 2025: Chrono Odyssey and ArcheAge Chronicles have both been delayed again
• Kakao Q1 2025: Chrono Odyssey is finally aiming for closed beta in May
• Kakao Q4 2024: Mobile drives revenue dip as Kakao queues up ArcheAge Chronicles and Chrono Odyssey
• Now XLGAMES is sunsetting the Korean version of ArcheAge too
• Kakao Q3 2024: ArcheAge 2 aka ArcheAge Chronicles has been delayed yet again
• Kakao Q2 2024: Profits nosedive as ArcheAge 2 faces another potential delay
• Kakao Q1 2024: ArcheAge 2 and Chrono Odyssey are apparently back on track for 2025
• Kakao’s western version of ArcheAge is sunsetting in June
• Kakao Q4 2023: ArcheAge 2 has been delayed (again), now to some point in or after 2025
• Chrono Odyssey debuts a splashy new in-engine trailer and confirms Kakao Games as publisher
• Kakao is effectively sunsetting ArcheAge Unchained, merging it into two remaining western ArcheAge servers
• Kakao Games Q2 2023: ArcheAge 2 targets second half of 2024, Ares Rise of Guardians launches in Korea
• Kakao partially denies report that ArcheAge will sunset following XLGAMES restructure
• Kakao Q3 2022: Revenue down, pipeline packed with ArcheAge War, Ares, Odin Valhalla Rising, Dysterra
• Kakao and XLGAMES reconfirm that ArcheAge 2 is launching in 2024
• Kakao’s Project Ares is a new MMORPG called Ares: Rise of Guardians
• Kakao is taking over publishing ArcheAge in the west from Gamigo
• Kakao Q1 2021 financials: ArcheAge 2 won’t be ready until at least 2024
• Desert Oasis: A brief history of Kakao Games, Black Desert’s former PC publisher
• Kakao Games’ Q3 2020 investor report suggests late 2021 western launch for Elyon Ascent Infinite Realm
• MMO Business Roundup: Kakao’s controlling stake in XLGAMES, Steam’s new record, Xbox’s games-as-a-service
