Twin Saga

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**Twin Saga** was an MMORPG developed by X-Legend and published by Aeria Games in English, French, and German. It was the global version of Astral Realm, released in the West more than one year after the original Taiwanese version launched. The U.S. English, French, and German servers were originally three separate servers, but they eventually merged.

## History

### Beta testing

Founders' beta for *Twin Saga* ran August 9–16, 2016, and was open only to players who had purchased founders' packs. Various founders' packs were available costing 1999 AP, 4999 AP, or 29999 AP, roughly equivalent to US$20, US$50, and US$300.

Beginning August 16, players who obtained closed beta keys were also allowed to join the game, in addition to the founders who had purchased packs. Closed beta testing ran until August 27, at which point the stress test began. The stress test was designed to test server load limits and lasted until August 29. After the stress test ended, game servers went offline and all player progress was reset. The game launched into open beta on September 1, 2016.

Between December 2016 and April 2017, just several months after open beta began, *Twin Saga* had no content updates. In April 2017, a major patch containing a new class and several new maps was implemented, and an upcoming Steam Release was announced; in order to renew interest, this patch was branded by Aeria Games and its parent company Gamigo as *Twin Saga'*s official commercial launch.

### Server merges

On February 9, 2017, the French and German servers were merged to create a unified "European" server. Despite the European designation, this new server was only accessible through the French and German clients, and English-speaking European players had to connect to the U.S. server.

On August 29, 2018, the U.S. and European servers were merged. Players with different language clients could connect to the same server, which used Central European Time.

### Discontinuation of Japanese voice acting

Due to licensing issues, beginning in August 2017, all future patches would contain Chinese voice acting instead of Japanese. Japanese voice acting remained for content released before the August 2017 patch, and English/French/German voice acting for system messages would also remain.

### Forum migration

*Twin Saga* and all other titles published by Aeria Games transitioned to a new forum service in November 2017. The previous forums had been the target of mass spam/DDOS attacks, rendered unusable for several days, and moderators were unable to contain it due to the outdated forum software.

Unlike the previous message boards, the new forums required separate registration and were not linked to one's Aeria Games account.

### Unofficial loss of French service

In May 2020, French players were advised that customer support may respond to inquiries in English instead of French. Additionally, due to a lack of French-speaking staff (both paid and volunteer), localization for new updates especially in the year preceding closure were published in unproofread, machine-translated English. This lack of French localization and customer support, with the exception of website announcements, spelled an unofficial end to service for French players.

### Closure

The closure of *Twin Saga*, along with four other games published by Aeria Games/Gamigo, was announced on February 24, 2021. Game servers officially closed on the morning of April 29, 2021, and players were encouraged to try out other X-Legend games published by Aeria, namely *Aura Kingdom* and *Grand Fantasia*.

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