Internet Industry Preview Event was held on the bank of Yangcheng Lake on Oct. 29, 2008. Before nearly 200 media, Snail Game and AOE of Russia announced that Legend: Legacy of Dragon, a world popular fantasy webgame masterpiece, enters China market by the agency of Snail Game".

At the release conference, Shihai, CEO of Snail Game, together with Nikolskiy.Vladimir, CEO of AOE broke down the Giant Egg to release the sealed Black Dragon. The dragon spread its wings and seemed to announce that "Legend: Legacy of Dragon is staged in China".

Wondrous Russian fantasy culture

Legend: Legacy of Dragon is a webgame developed by AOE based on rules of Dungeons and Dragons. It gets rid of the traditional casual game impressions of dullness, stiffness and poor-quality and gives us sense of vividness and reality. AOE invested heavily in R & D of Legend: Legacy of Dragon to guarantee its extraordinary quality. As a result, Legend: Legacy of Dragon was not only well-received in Russia and Eastern European countries, but also topped various webgame lists all around western countries.

This time Snail Game and AOE cooperates in a new method--- exchanging the operation rights of their own products. Snail Game operates Legend: Legacy of Dragon as the agent while AOE operates 5 Street as the agent. Thus a series of innovative in-depth cooperation between two companies started.

Promising future for webgame in China

Internet Industry Preview Event held on Yangcheng Lake attracted a lot of professionals and media to discuss the future of webgame in China together. At the meeting, Yang Weiqing, CEO of Iresearch Consultancy Group (authorized institution in internet research in China), analyzed the current situation of webgame in China and showed that webgame in China is growing gradually and has a bright future.

At the meeting, Mr. Shi, CEO of Snail Game, stated that “webgame as an internet-historical part has become part of Snail Game virtual world framework plan and Snail Game has made a series of arrangements for it. In this point of view it is not difficult to see that Snail Game will start a series of impressive moves in the near future. At the same time, the hearsay of “Snail Game is developing 2 webgames of EVE Online and City of Heroes” was proved to be true.

As we all know, AOE occupies 60% share in internet interactive entertainment market in Russia. Nikolskiy.Vladimir, CEO of AOE brought the latest news about international webgame market to all the present guests and shared the achievements of its key product of Legend: Legacy of Dragon all around the world.

International webgame highlight

Legend: Legacy of Dragon is popular in Russia, CIS and other countries since its launch at the end of 2007. It has been translated into several language versions and possesses over 10 million players already. What is more, AOE also launched and operates nearly 30 games including Legend: Legacy of Dragon at the same time.

So far, the international webgame masterpiece of Legend: Legacy of Dragon finally came to China. As an international mature webgame product, Legend: Legacy of Dragon has a lot of advantages such as the innovative game mode of WebGame + MMO, unexpected tasks, unique fighting system and so on. All those advantages make this game get rid of sense of stereotype which is quite common to domestic webgames. Snail Game and AOE, two heavyweight game companies’ joint operation of Legend: Legacy of Dragon stirs up people’s curiosity on its future in China and its impact on domestic webgame companies.

The answer will be announced in the future. it is said that Legend: Legacy of Dragon will enter alpha on Oct. 30 and will offer Activation Key to the public and officially start the open beta from Nov.