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▲ KOG Kwon Ohdang ‘Elsword’ Development team leader

What was the response from fans after releasing Lu Ciel?

A: After the initial release of LuCiel, we hit the record of most players playing Elsword ever for this Winter Season. I think the driving force between Elsword’s growing popularity is new characters that cannot be played in any other games. I’m glad LuCiel also played their part in this.

Which character was more popular between Lu and Ciel?

A: It was different depending on personal tastes of the players. There was a tendency for male players to like Lu and females players liking Ciel, but I think what players are most enthusiastic about was the two character’s relationship. There are players that like Lu’s powerful and accurate play style but there are also players that like Ciel’s fast and skill focused play style.

How does marriage work in game for Lu and Ciel? (What gender is the character treated as?)

A: Since Lu and Ciel combined can marry any other character in the game, there is no restriction in marriage for Lu Ciel. Only Lu or Ciel, the character that is being married can enter the wedding event. It does feel strange thinking of Lu/Ciel watching their partner marrying.

Will there be any more Duo Characters?

A: I did mention the possibility of more pair characters during Elesis update, but I was surprised that some players thought every character that’s released from then on will be pair characters. Of course if there are enough players that want them released, I won’t discard the possibility. Still, just like how only pair character that currently exist is Elesis, only duo character that exists is Lu Ciel. We developers want players to know that we always want to present something new to our players.

There are opinions that Lu and Ciel’s settings overlap with other characters? What do you think about this?

A: It could look that way when considering from regular character’s perspective as Lu Ciel are fighter and gunblade concept characters.But the core concept for Lu Ciel is duo system that combines these two different battle styles. There are too many characters now to distinguish characters by just their weapons. Lu Ciel was a character born from desire to give different experience to the players and if you actually try the character, you’ll see that they are clearly different from other characters.

There was a surprise news in this booth about release of other Elsword related medias. Can you explain more about this?

A: We’ve always thought while we do show some of Elsword’s stories through the game, the world of Elsword was too large to show every stories we wanted to show. That’s where we had the idea to show some stories through popular form of media that our users might enjoy. We determined manga and light novel formats would intrigue our users the most.

There are opinions about how Elsword’s ingame story is hard to follow. What are your thoughts on this?

A: We do get lots of feedbacks saying there is no time for players to stop and read through the game’s story when they play. We’ve been working towards making Elsword’s story more easy to follow. One of those works are our Final dungeon clear videos. We’ve been also working towards making our new town Lanox’s story much more engaging than the previous town’s stories.

You said there will be light novels and mangas? Can you tell us more about those?

A: Unlike our other comic book series that was for younger target audiences, these new series will be for slightly older audiences. Volume 1 of the manga series is ready to be released soon. This series is named ‘Elsword 0’ and covers events just few years before Elsword’s story. The focus is on one of Elsword’s most popular character Elesis and tells the story of her journey around Elrios continent. The light novel project is still in the planning stages but we’re planning to tell the story far before the events of Elsword that’s only been depicted in the lore so far.

Last words for ‘Elsword’ users?

A: From the start we wanted one thing. To provide for the current users that enjoy Elsword, a game that they can play proudly and to have them meet with even more new friends inside the game. We worked towards releasing characters and contents that cannot be seen in other games. Through more updates, we will continue to work hard so many people can play and enjoy ‘Elsword’.