We’ve got some cool news in the coming weeks and months in the world of Dirty Bomb, and I want to give you a quick update on two significant announcements that lie ahead.
Nexon America will operate Dirty Bomb in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand
Unlike our previous games, Dirty Bomb is going to be an on-going service. That means our involvement will continue well after release, and we’ll bring you regular game updates, new features and functionality, and content updates. To achieve this vision and at the same time bring you the best possible quality of service near you, we’re partnering with operators around the world. If you’re interested, you can find more information on our operations approach in this post by badman.
We’re very excited to be partnering with Nexon America to bring Dirty Bomb to North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Turkey, and you’ll be able to freely play with and against any other players within those regions. Nexon have a massive amount of experience in the free-to-play space, and run several successful games already. They are extremely excited about Dirty Bomb and want to do whatever they can to help us make the game a success.
Nexon will be lending their free-to-play expertise which we’ve agreed will focus on keeping the game free-to-win (not pay-to-win), and together we’ll bring it to a big and avid fanbase in all of their territories, provide the kind of massive high performance server-infrastructure that we desperately need, plus trustworthy and secure payment gateways, just in case you do spend money! 
They’ll manage front-line customer support, and we’ll be there too to help with issues that get escalated. To be clear, Nexon share our Anti-Pay-to-Win stance for the game, and we’ll continue to have full creative control over the game, its gameplay, and features. I must say though, Min (their CEO) is already pretty good at DB already… I’ve loved working and socialising with him – he’s a huge hardcore PC gamer himself, and also nuts about board and card games. His alias is MoneyPenny, so now you know who to shoot!
Dirty Bomb is becoming Extraction
What most people don’t know is that Dirty Bomb’s original name was Extraction. We were nervous about trademarking it, hence the rename just before the closed-alpha DB. With Nexon’s help, we now feel confident we can secure the worldwide rights to the name, so we’re changing it back!
There’ll be a brand-new Extraction teaser website launching alongside the partnership announcement mentioned earlier.
Share your thoughts!
I’m telling you all first, but please keep this secret! We’ll announce the Nexon partnership in a couple of days, and will debut the game with them at PAX in Seattle. You guys know me pretty well, so feel free to post what you like (positive or negative!), and I or badman will tell you anything we can that won’t cause our bankruptcy.
