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Shortly after the Japanese version of Bless Online announced its closure, the global English version from Neowiz announced that they will also be shutting down on September 8th, 2019. No one should be surprised with this announcement as the game's playerbase has been in rapid decline since it launched. Full announcement: To our loyal Bless Online Community, It has been [...]

Bless Japan will be shutting down on August 8, 2019 after running continuously since November, 2017. Given the game's poor performance globally, this shouldn't be too surprising. The Western version seems to be losing players at a rapid clip and may soon the Japanese version in the great MMO graveyard. The Neowiz global English version averages just 210 players [...]

Despite its declining playerbase, Bless is still regularly introducing content to keep existing players engaged. The game is releasing the 'Urdaata War Fortress' dungeon on February 20th which is a level 50 dungeon that can be entered once per week. The update also adds several new cosmetic items in the game's cash shop including the regal Winter Sky costume (2600 [...]

Despite steadily losing players (currently averaging 996 concurrent), Bless is continuing to push out updates regularly. The game is launching an update on January 9th which will introduce the new Sapiens Mausoleum Dungeon (Elite) as well as the Basel Gorge Certificate of Valor Event. The new dungeon is aimed at level 50 players and a full party of 5 is [...]

In a producer letter released earlier today, Neowiz announced that Bless will be getting the Mystic class sometime during the first half of 2019. Besides the Paladin, the Mystic is the only other class in the game with healing abilities. Unlike the Paladin though, the Mystic is a more dedicated healing class, but will also have some offensive capabilities. The [...]

Bless Online has been through a rollercoaster journey over the past few years. Aeria Games, along with Gamigo, initially signed a deal with Neowiz in April 2016 to port and publish the game for the western market. Neowiz later took back the reins when Aeria Games backed out of the deal in 2017 promising to release the game into Early [...]

Bless is officially exiting early access on Steam on October 23 and also going free to play on the same day. The game originally launched as a buy to play game in North America and Europe, despite being free to play in every other region. The logic behind the business model was to follow in the footsteps of Black Desert [...]

The Assassin Class and Siege of Castra PvP mode will be launching in Bless on August 7th. We previously highlighted these changes earlier this week, but we now have a definitive release date for the new class and PvP mode. Assassin Class With this next big update coming August 7 we will be adding the Assassin class! Players of both [...]

Neowiz launched their 4th of July update for Bless yesterday which added a new series of daily quests called 'Royal Quests' which players unlock at level 45 as well as a new PvP area called Basel Gorge. These new daily quests are marked by a purple quest icon on the world map and yield higher rewards than a typical quest. [...]