ArcheAge

Did You Know?

• The story is based on The ArcheAge Chronicles by Korean author Jeon Min-hee.
• On April 25, 2024, Kakao Games announced that ArcheAge servers in North America and Europe would close effective June 27, 2024.
• Apex is a coin sold by Trion for $10 to paying players but freely tradable in-game, allowing free players to purchase Patron status.

Game technology and special features

ArcheAge uses modern graphics effects such as tessellation and ambient occlusion, and includes a physics engine. The game employs player collision, so movement can be blocked by other players or NPCs. ArcheAge: Unchained was announced in August 2019 and launched on Steam and Glyph on October 15, 2019, with the same content and updates but a one-payment monetization model that made all players effectively Patrons; it later added its own subscription. Its marketplace offers only cosmetic items, and an Archepass similar to a battlepass was added, with a free path and a premium path for cosmetics. Unchained was a separate game with no character or item transfer from ArcheAge. In November 2023, ArcheAge Unchained merged with the base game, transferring all characters and items. The game client uses XIGNCODE3; previously it used Hackshield, then Easy Anti-Cheat, with plans to use GameGuard in the future.