tell me everything you know about it please and thank you what i know so far: Nimonix = game developer who made the game Gretech = game distributor WeMade = game developer + distributor 20052005-09-28: Gretech a tech company decide to enter the gaming industry and to unveil their new game Gem Fighter at the Jeonju Computer Expo 2005. They want to see the player’s reaction to the game and for developers who wish to partner with them to make a more complete game. http://game.donga.com/25910/ 2005-11-01: Gretech announce that it will hold a closed-beta service for one week, inviting beta testers to try out the game, closed-beta would start on the 16th of November. http://game.donga.com/26299/ 2005-11-16: Gretech conduct their one week private closed-beta service today, essentially testing the client and server as well as the balance of in-game items, stages and battle modes. http://game.donga.com/26501/ 2005-11-18: Gem Fighter is judged as ‘total usage’ meaning it can be played by all ages. Nimonix and Gretech are happy. http://game.donga.com/26534/ 2005-12-01: Gretech announce they are going to conduct a second closed-beta test and are recruiting more beta testers. Testers sign up on the website to be able to get recruited. http://game.donga.com/26689/ 2005-12-08: Gretech announce that the second beta closed-beta test would be four days from December 8-11 http://game.donga.com/26776/ 2005-12-22: Soul Fighter is released http://game.donga.com/26966/ 20062006-01-19: Gretech hold their third closed-beta test for 12 days from January 19-30. Three of the classes are open to the public and they created the default elementalist exocore. http://game.donga.com/27297/ 2006-02-06: Gretech announce that open-beta will be available on February 13th through their website http://game.donga.com/27505/ 2006-02-10: Gretech have a grand opening of Gem Fighter and have some Bboy dancer at the event. Q and A in link. http://game.donga.com/27581/ 2006-02-13: Open-beta is released, Alchemist is revealed and available to players. http://game.donga.com/27607/ 2006-02-17: Gretech announce that Gem Fighter has over 12,000 concurrent users playing beta after 5 days. http://game.donga.com/27677/ 2006-02-27: They pass over 30,000 concurrent users http://game.donga.com/27791/ 2006-04-07: Gretech announce their first online tournament with large carat prizes to level 10’s and above. http://game.donga.com/28355/ 2006-05-25: Gretech announce that after 100 days of open-beta testing that their formal service begins. http://game.donga.com/29129/ 2006-06-07: Gem Fighter is the leading brand representing Gretech and a QnA in the link. http://game.donga.com/29291/ 2006-11-02: Gretech announce that they will have an offline Gem Fighter contest with 32 teams of two players. Get to play against developers as well. http://game.donga.com/31604/ 20072007-01-22: Gretech announce that Gem Fighter has signed an North American publishing contract with GameFactory Inc. aka OGPlanet http://game.donga.com/32885/ 2007-03-12: The offline tournament they had last December is now available on TV http://game.donga.com/33679/ 2007-03-15: Gretech make a Gem Fighter comic book http://game.donga.com/33722/ 2007-05-29: Gretech announce shipping Gem Fighter as well as another game to ChinaGames subsidiary, 17Games making it available to China, Hong Kong, Macau and India. Additionally, closed-beta in North America has finished and launching open beta service in June http://game.donga.com/34726/ 2007-07-24: Part 2 of the comic is out http://game.donga.com/35463/ Japan beta stuff don’t really want to get into it if you want to see check out RF Wikia history section. 20082008-05-29: WeMade Entertainment announced today that it has acquired all global copyright of Gem Fighter which was previously owned by Gretech. This means WeMade takes over the Gem Fighter’s services, marketing and all operations. http://game.donga.com/39987/ 2008-08-18: Gem Fighter guild wars tournament assumedly in offline mode and also filmed on TV http://game.donga.com/41274/ 20102010-10-22: WeMade announce that they will be releasing Gem Fighter through their own service of Tooniland http://game.donga.com/50116/ 20112011-05-11: WeMade celebrate the 5th anniversary of Gem Fighter http://www.wemade.com/pr/pressRelease/detail?no=1181&pageNum=101&title= 2011-06-02: WeMade signs a contract with NimoniX for the domestic services of Gem Fighter with expansion in Southeast Asia also underway http://www.wemade.com/pr/pressRelease/detail?no=1190&pageNum=100&title= 20142014-03-20: WeMade announce new CEO Janghyeonguk, previously VP of Internal Affairs also other new management towards a ‘strategic move in the global gaming market’ http://corp.wemade.com/pr/pressRelease/detail?no=2000&pageNum=49&title= 2014-03-24: Valofe announce that Gem Fighter will now start a new service under them with WeMade’s remaining service ending on May 22nd and Valofe’s service starting on May 23rd http://gf.valofe.com/notice/view?entry_idx=48 2014-12-04: Gem Fighter starts a service with Webzen’s PC room (similar to Steam) in attempt to gain more players http://gametoc.hankyung.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=24413 thanks need it for rumble fighter wikia
Nah. Wemade leaving nimonix when OGP shutting Rumbe Fighter. Nimonix is only develop for Rumble Fighter. Volafe is just hosting for Gem Fighter such as GM. Wezben is not getting gem fighter anything they just trash us out. Now we dont have game distributor for Rumble Fighter now. Just Nimonix. That is.
Man I've always wanted to read those comics they made for Gem. If you go through the timeline of this game, you'd know that this game is done for. It was at it's prime back in the day.
A distributor is selling a product that already exists. A publisher is responsible for the production of a product (magazine or book) and for the final quality of the product. A publisher will also determine the direction that a magazine or publishing business takes -- although doesn't get involved at the individual book or magazine level, generally.
Well you know they was our publisher. And RedFox is considered a publisher for RF now. I wish I could. I could look up if you want to.
I have nothing to add but thank you for taking the time writing all that. Very interesting information.
I'd love you if you could, I tried the news section on the WeMade website but the last known account of Gem Fighter is for the bingo event in 2012 there is no news of closure of service or anything like that. Now I'm wondering if NimoniX said it in a Q and A session or something along those lines Happy hunting!
