Nonono, I meant that blatantly self-serving and untrue statement that Boobs and Sluts is meant to introduce eastern martial arts and magic gaming to the west. I was under the impression that the entire FF saga had already done that, thenkewverramuch.
Ahh I see what you mean.
Well if you're talking about eastern martial arts styled games, then their copy is STILL misleading and wrong, because Soul Caliber and even the venerable Street Fighter franchise did that long ago. (1991 in the case of Street Fighter)
As for Eastern styled magic in gaming, Final Fantasy has some, but FF is surprisingly generic in it's approach to magic. Most FF games have had more the flavor of Dungeons and Dragons than anything Eastern!
But plenty of other games from Japan and elsewhere have done the "Martial Arts and Eastern Magic" thing. Some of them have been brought to the west successfully but that's mostly been in the form of games like Suikoden and what's commonly called the "JRPG" genre.
Notably, NONE of the Korean MMOs have done well in North America. They all seem to adhere to a particular formula of mindless grinding with little or no plot (go here, kill X. Go here, kill more X) until you get to the End game, where it's NOTHING ELSE but large scale Player versus Player (PVP) which they tend to call RVR for "Race Versus Race" because you HAVE to team in nothing but large raid parties (practically armies!) to be effective. Western gamers tend to avoid those games like the plaque.
Blade and Soul is THAT kind of game, no matter what they say or what trappings it has in the form of individual character classes.
So I'm very confident that it will fail in this market just like the others have.
Doesn't mean we can't give it a little push though.