Korea versus Global — every confirmed difference

This page lists only what NCSOFT has confirmed in writing about the differences between the Korean service and the Western one — and it is deliberately short, because most of what circulates on this subject is inference. Five differences are established and dated. Several widely repeated claims are not, and they are listed here as unconfirmed rather than omitted, so you can see exactly where the published record stops.

The confirmed differences, each with its source. The Western release is PC only, per the official Steam page — the Korean service is not. Servers are in four regions: North America, South America, Europe and Japan (announcement of 21 April 2026). Ten in-game languages are supported: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese for Brazil, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Chinese in both simplified and traditional forms (same announcement). The global service is free-to-play, and Founders enter five days before the free launch (announcement of 22 July 2026). Early access begins 30 September 2026.

What is NOT established, and is widely repeated as if it were. The content state at Western launch — level cap, which dungeons open, which zones — has not been announced. Whether the Brawler, added in Korea on 6 July 2026, will be present. The monthly subscription is no longer in this list: an official video of 25 June 2026 confirmed a single membership at 15 US dollars a month unlocking full access to the player-driven economy — see the pay-to-win guide. What remains unpublished is the exact date of the free launch, arithmetically consistent with 5 October 2026 but never written by the publisher. A press claim about server counts — five per region — also conflicts with the publisher’s four regions, and this site publishes the publisher’s figure and no server count at all.

The rule this whole site runs on, stated once here: when the publisher and the press disagree, the publisher wins — but a priority rule settles two claims, it never fills a silence. Where NCSOFT has said nothing, this page says nothing. So if you read a confident list of Korea-versus-West differences that covers launch content, the level cap or the Brawler, you are reading inference presented as fact. The one prediction worth making is structural rather than factual: a Western launch that opens with a different content state than Korea’s current one will make part of every Korean guide inapplicable overnight — including parts of this site, which is why every page here carries its date.