Free Lunch? Sitting there and earn in game cash!

2008.09.05 10:29 am »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

Guys from Legend of Golden Plume delivered a piece of very interesting news, that is you can sit in the game and gain cash. Does this mean free lunch finally comes to the MMORPGs?

Legend of Golden Plume Screenshot 1 - Free Chinese MMORPG

I am sure you are all very excited about the opening of the LGP Item Mall. All these nice dress, wings, gems, wedding packs, etc.  They are costing an arm and a leg!

What about the 3000 Gold that we have given out on August 20, 2008? Have you spent it all, and now you have no Gold left to buy any other items?

Not to worry. Here is a new way you can earn Gold in LGP Online. We will give you 2 Gold Points for every 2 continuous hours that you are in LGP Online.

The following are detailed rules:

1. Each time you log off, our system will compute how long you are online since the last time you log in. And you will earn 2 Gold Points for every 2 hours that you are continuously online.  Residuals will be rounded off, meaning if you are online for 3 hours and 59 minutes, you will still only earn only 2 Gold Points, and if you are continuously online for 4 hours and 1 minute, you will get 4 Gold Points.  You can take out these Gold Points at the Bullion Merchant in Plume city, when you accumulate at least 100 gold.

2. To prevent cheating, we will only allow 3 accounts per IP address to earn Gold in this method. EVeryday (calendar day based on PST), the first 3 accounts at each ip address will earn Gold, and the fourth account will not be able to earn anything.  So let’s do some math: if you have 3 accounts online all the time, you will earn 24 Gold per account per day, 720 Gold per account per month, and  2160 Gold for all 3 accounts in 1 month. This can buy you some nice things in game.  You can invite your friends or family members to be in LGP with you, and ask them to give you their gold hehe.

3. We are not responsible for any "unlucky events" that cause you not to receive the Gold: For example,  you got DCed due to some poor network connection at 1 hour 59 minutes, and did not get the Gold; Or we have to maintain the server that forces you to disconnect at 1 hour and 58 minutes.  This is a free benefit to make you happy, and  we do not wish to turn it into something that creates trouble, dispute or unhappiness.

4.  This is a promotional event and we may make adjustment or terminate this event any time. 

5. You can also buy LGP Gold using real money in the future, but we do not intend to do this anytime soon.  You can also participate in some other events (such as write game reviews, etc) to earn Gold.

Hope everyone have fun with this system, and enjoy the shopping in LGP.

Legend of Golden Plume Screenshot 2 - Free Chinese MMORPG 

Sounds very interesting. The publisher wants more players spending their time in game so they came up with such an idea. This is definately new to the current MMORPG market. We think more and more companies will copy this method to increase their CCU.

[News] Project Powder - New Single Player Mode

2008.09.04 4:46 pm »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

We have just received a piece of news from outspark about their MMOCG game, Project Powder.

Join Project Powder Open Beta Now! A free to play MMOCG!

Outspark has released exciting new content for its competitive online snowboard racing game, Project Powder, featuring a brand new single player mode, a new race track, and other additions.

Project Powder players looking to improve their snowboarding skills without the embarrassment of defeat can now take to the slopes in a new single player practice mode. Learn all of the secret shortcuts in Race Mode and track down all of those hidden gold coins in Coin Mode to own your friends in your next match.

Boarders can also take on a challenging new course, a mirrored version of Smallpox Part 2, and can race without fear thanks to improvements to Project Powder’s X-Trap anticheat software.

Here are some screenshots of this MMOCG.

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For more details, please visit http://projectpowder.outspark.com.

[News] Perfect World: Open Beta is now Live!

2008.09.04 2:38 am »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

PERFECT WORLD INTERNATIONAL LAUNCHES OPEN BETA

Perfect World Open Beta!!! 

September 2, 2008 – Redwood City, CA - Perfect World Entertainment Inc, a wholly owned US subsidiary of Perfect World Co., Ltd., today announced the beta for its highly anticipated online game “Perfect World International” is now open to all gamers. As the closed beta comes to an end, new and existing gamers will be provided open access to “Perfect World International” where they can fully immerse themselves in the expansive world and create permanent characters that will remain in the game through launch and beyond. 

"With millions of players worldwide and a successful closed beta launch in North America, we are excited to now introduce an even larger audience of gamers to Perfect World International as it enters the open beta phase," said Dr. Alan Chen, CEO of Perfect World Entertainment Inc. "We are confident that our premium content, skillful approach to game design, and excellent execution will redefine the free-to-play market in North America while establishing Perfect World Entertainment as a leading provider of interactive entertainment."

"Perfect World International" is the English-based, international version of Perfect World II, one of the most successful 3D MMORPGs worldwide. With its expansive feature set and unique artistic elegance, "Perfect World International" offers an immersive online world that players can enter free of charge, earning in-game currency to upgrade their character and further enhance their game play experience. The game features one of the most in-depth character creation interfaces seen in any game to date, numerous quests full of lore and depth, and an extensive selection of items and fashions. Unique MMORPG features such as Territory Wars will delight gamers and increase replay value as they explore and battle across the ever-expanding game world.

  • Additional game features include:
    o    3 Unique Classes – Human, Winged Elf, and the Untamed, each with their own look, feel, and game mechanics. Each character class has different skill trees, which cater to the user’s visual tastes as well as their intrinsic needs as a gamer.
    o    Guild/Clan System – Guilds enable chat between members, creation of guild emblems, guild versus guild battles, and control of existing territories.
    o    Territory Wars – Guilds can own territories and battle for their control. Weekly battles support up to 80 vs. 80 and winners receive a virtual monetary reward determined by the amount of territory occupied.
    o    Mount System – Large selection of custom mounts, including flying mounts and the unique ability to mount and carry other players.  Players have the unique ability to fight while on their mounts both in PvP (Player vs. Player) and PvE (Player vs. Environment).
    o    Costumes – Players have the ability to fully express themselves through their in-game characters by customizing clothing, and creating fully personalized avatars. These customization items can be bought from the item mall or traded with other players in the game.
    o    Free Roaming Map – Large variety of terrains and scenery and no “zoning” or front loading when entering a new area.  
    o    Consequence – Character abilities change based on their decisions and their allegiance to good and evil as they align themselves with either side.
    o    Marriage System – Both players will have an online notice, and a wife/husband title. Marriage requires an item from the Cash Shop which is worth around 30$ in Perfect World item shop currency.
    o    Crafting System – Players can select and raise four different crafting skills. Blacksmithing (creates weapons), Tailoring (creates armor), Jewelry (creates various jewelry and arrows), and Pharmacist (creates potions and hierograms).
    o    World Events – Aside from day-to-day game play, players can also participate in World Events that regularly take place in the game and allow players to obtain unique items. These include treasure hunts, horse races, jungle ruins quests, etc.
    o    Exceptional Localization – Perfect World Entertainment has gone through great lengths to fully re-localize Perfect World into English, while at the same time ensure that the Chinese mythology and lore continue to enrich the end-user’s experience.

Players can find additional information on “Perfect World International” and gain access to the game by visiting: http://www.perfectworld.com.

[News] World of Kung Fu Extends Popular “Summer of Love” Event Until September 7th

2008.09.04 2:26 am »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

Popular “Summer of Love” in-game marriage event will be extended to September 7th, with winners and prizes to be awarded on September 14th.

[Shanghai, Sep 4th, 2008] –World of Kung Fu, the free-to-play 3D martial arts MMORPG from VestGame Entertainment, is extending its popular “Summer of Love” in-game event due to player demand. This event allows groups of players get married amid a plethora fantastic decorations, balloons, flower bouquets, fireworks, and other mall items given out for free by the generous GMs. Wedding pictures of the new couples will be posted on the World of Kung Fu Website, with winners to be chosen by the community of World of Kung Fu Players.

One Grand Prize will be awarded on each server to the couple with the best photo. In addition to having their picture up on the World of Kung Fu website, the winning couple will receive 2 Xian Wu mounts and 2 Wish Rings. All entrants will receive a prize for their participation, such as the legendary Sky Pearl, a rare item useful for refining equipment.

Marriages in World of Kung Fu are performed by the GMs after players get their marriage license from the Matchmaker NPC located in the cities of Liuhe, and Bizhou. In addition to a lifetime of marital bliss, married couples also get a 20% experience bonus (upgradable to 50%) on actions performed together. In future upgrades to the game, there will actually be a child rearing system that will allow children to inherit attributes from their parents! Stay tuned for more info on that when it becomes available. More information about this and other upcoming events can be found on the World of Kung Fu website.

About VestGame Entertainment Inc.

VestGame Entertainment is the North American publisher of "World of Kung Fu", a fully 3D massively multiplayer online game distinguished by its unique gameplay, beautiful graphics, and exotic storyline. VGE has offices in Shanghai and New Haven in the United States. More about the company can be found at http://www.vestgame.com

For much more information about the North American version of "World of Kung Fu" including tutorials, forums, screenshots and downloads, please visit the official World of Kung Fu website at http://www.worldofkungfu.com.

Preview of Heaven Dragon (Tian Long Ba Bu) by Sohu.com (1)

2008.09.02 3:02 am »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

Tian Long Ba bu, known as Demi-Gods, Semi-Devils, is a very famous kung fu fiction written by Jin Yong. We have introduced some of this same name game in the last year. Since the game is officially released for a long time and it’s very popular in China, we would like to run into details of this game and present this extremely good MMORPG to our readers.

Heaven Dragon Online

Game Engine

The game is made from a very famous open source 3D engine: OGRE. “OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce applications utilizing hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. The class library abstracts all the details of using the underlying system libraries like Direct3D and OpenGL and provides an interface based on world objects and other intuitive classes.” You will find that the game client is very small, only around 600M with so many contents. You can easily change your avatar in games and dye your hairs and clothes. But the developers made the game views to 2.5D so that the game will never make players dizzy.

Computer Specifications

Since it’s a 3D game, but we think most of your PC’s can handle this game. The following are the detailed specifications (not from official website, from our game reviewers. Oh yes, you need to install DirectX 9.0c to run the game.

 

Standard Spec.

 

Recommended Spec.

 

OS

 

Windows XP/2000/98/Me

 

Windows XP/2000/98/Me

 

CPU

 

P4 1.5G

 

P4 2.0G

 

RAM

 

512M

 

1G

 

Graphics Card

 

Geforce2 MX 400/32M

 

ATI 9550/64M

 

Hard Disk Space

 

2GB

 

4GB

 

Internet Connection

 

DSL

 

DSL

 

Characters

You can create up to 3 characters in one account. You can choose to become a male or a female like in most other games. But if you want to delete your characters, you need to find the NPC in game and it will take 3 days to delete your character. Personally I think this is a good protection for those players whose accounts got stolen.

Interface

Heaven Dragon Screenshot

We hope the following information will be helpful to you if you want to try a game in different language.

Bar Introduction

Interface Bar

1.Character 2.Skills 3.Pets 4.Quest 5.Trade 6.Language Input 7.HotKey 8.ChatBox 9.Exp. Bar 10.Chat Setting 11.HotKey Sheet 12.Inventory 13.Friend 14.Team 15.Guild 16.System

Character Sheet Introduction

Character Sheet

1.Character Name 2.HP 3.MP 4.Stigma/Vit. 5.Character Level 6.Avatar

Map Introduction

Map

1.Lunar Time 2.Map Name 3.Help 4.Min Map Window 5.Coordinates 6.North 7.PK Mode 8. Facing Direction 9.Auto Path 10.World Map 11.Area Map 12.Help 13.Guide

Factions

If you have read the famous fiction: Demi-Gods, Semi-Devils, you will know that there are totally 9 factions in the book. According to the book, there are 9 factions in the game as well. I think most of you know about Shaolin Kung Fu. Shaolin is a faction in this game. For more details, you can search wikipedia about the factions of Kung Fu in ancient China. In this game, different factions will grant you different basic attributes of a character. For example, if you joined Shaolin faction, you distribute your points to HP or Attack will grant you more power than those in Xingxiu faction, according to the official introduction(We haven’t practised this yet since limited of time). But it is definately interesting when different people from different factions PK.

If you joined a faction, you can learn faction skills and do faction quests as well.

So much for today. We will bring you some other details in the next posts. If you are interested, please do reply and tell us what do you want to know about this game. We would happy to help you out.

[News] Fiesta Level 89 Expansion

2008.08.31 11:10 pm »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

This is our first time to introduce a Free MMORPG news (not made from China) to our site readers. This game is fun and we would like to make a review some time later:) Here we go!

Outspark Launches Free Level 89 Expansion for Hit MMORPG Fiesta -New Maps, Apprentice System, Quests, Monsters and More Available Now!

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Outspark, a leading publisher of immersive online multiplayer games, today announced the launch of the newest free expansion for the hit free-to-play MMORPG, Fiesta. Featuring new content including two challenging zones, brand new quests, a new in-game wedding feature, a new Monarch system, an increase in the game’s level cap and much more, the expansion is available now for all Fiesta players. Visit http://fiesta.outspark.com now to join the community and experience the new in-game features.

"Millions of Outspark gamers have been anticipating this expansion, and we are very happy to yet again deliver what our players want," said Outspark founder and CEO Susan Choe. "This exciting new content release offers great stuff for veteran and new players alike."

Within the Level 89 Expansion, Fiesta players can now explore the treacherous, scalding expanses of Burning Rock and Flaming Mine—each rife with dangerous denizens and challenging quests. Players will enjoy upgraded player skills to help them move from level 79 to 89 and a brand new Kingdom Quest for characters at level 80 to 89. The expansion also includes an innovative apprentice system called the Monarch System, which lets seasoned gamers form mutually beneficial partnerships with new players. Masters earn a percentage of the in-game currency spent by their apprentices, while apprentices receive special class-specific items every 10 levels.

Fiesta players looking to "engage" even more with the community should check out the in-game wedding feature. Love-struck gamers can now purchase premium wedding dresses or tuxedos, and can purchase the Wedding Application in order to virtually tie the knot in a special ceremony at the game’s scenic, remote Chapel in the Sky.

New Fiesta players will also find it easier to level up, as monsters between levels 1 and 30 now award 20% more experience. The game’s quest system has also been overhauled with updated text and descriptions.

For a complete list of features in the Level 89 Expansion, visit http://fiesta.outspark.com.

Fiesta is a free to play MMORPG. If you like games like RO, you should give it a go:)

[News] Perfect World: Closed Beta Testers - Free ZEN

2008.08.31 10:49 pm »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

Beta players can get items from cash shop from Perfect World Online. You can find the detailed information from the following news:

All Closed Beta accounts have been given cash shop currency, ZEN. This currency can be used in-game to purchase items from our cash shop, however it will be wiped at the end of closed beta on September 2nd.

In order to redeem your ZEN, please follow these steps:

1. Visit the following link: https://billing.perfectworld.com/

2. Log in using your username and password.

billinglogin

3. Select the server that you would like to deposit your ZEN to.

4. Select the amount of ZEN that you would like to deposit. (Note: The conversion rate is 100 ZEN to 1 Gold.)

deposit

5. Click on the deposit button and you’re done!

6. Go spend your cash shop currency in-game. You can access the cash shop by clicking the button located under your mini-map or by pressing ALT + O.

cashshop

(Note: If you are logged in game during the execution of this process, then you must relog in order to see your updated cash shop balance in game.)

Please keep in mind that all characters and ZEN balances will be wiped on September 2nd, the end of our Closed Beta.

If you are interested, why not give Perfect World a try now?

New TianXia II Official Wallpaper

2008.08.16 12:35 am »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

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Pocket West Journey - Upgraded Qworld MMORPG

2008.08.09 5:58 am »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

Since the Game Perfect World and Qworld, Perfect World Ltd. is well known in South Asia. Many USA players would bear the lag and would take the risk to play the PH version. Finally they released the Peferect World International.

Let us take a look at their latest product, an upgraded version of Q-world Online, which is now open beta in mainland China: Kou Dai Xi You, temperilay we name it: Pocket WJ.

Character Sheet

Human God Monster

Nothing creative, just like the normal products from Perfect world, there are three races you can choose: Human, God and Devel. In each race, you can choose 6 classes. Different from other games by Perfect World, there will be a pet born with you. You can input your birthday when creating your character.

First Log in

Five Element System

When you first log in the game, if you play Phoenix Dynasty Online, you will have ideas what it is - Five Element System. In this game, designers "borrowed" a lot of concepts from other Chinese MMORPG. The designers also considered the convienence for the newbies and  want the players to read the basic information when logged in. But it’s really hard to find "X" button and I doubt if players will read it since most of us just click the "X" button and continue the training.

Training

We have just completed first couple of levels and training seems to be easy. Just Talk to the NPC who has something on  the top of their head and follow the quest. Since they have GPS system, just click the NPC in green name in quest pannel and you will go to find the guy easily.

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But just a few minutes, we feel the game is boring. Quests are just grindy quests like they have in Q-World, Chibi Online etc. We didn’t find anything outside the box. Maybe the only interesting thing is the cute pets.

You need to hunt 20 pigs to complete the quest. A bit boring, um?

Graphics and Effects

Since they use the same game engine, the effects are just as awesome as in other perfect world games. You can see the effects from the following screenshots.

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Pets

The game company advertised this game as the most cutest 3D pet game. We have noticed that they "borrowed" the eudemons concept from Eudemons Online. You can summon your pet and combine the pet to your character. You can capture all monsters to be your pet, which feature could be found from the game called Legend of Golden Plume.

Pets are divided into 9 factions. Each faction has restrictions and generations. This is fun when PK. You have to know this when you see your enemy’s pet.

Fly

As you know in Perfect World Online, there is a race have special ability and they can float and fly in the sky. In this game, no matter what race you choose, you can have the ability to fly. When you reach Level 10, you are able to accept a quest and then you can fly. The following are the images when you fly.

Fly Fly Fly

Conclusion

Pocket Western Journey is just another Perfect World’s combination product. They borrowed a lot of concepts welcomed in Chinese market and impliment them into the game. But as to game play itself, there isn’t any break-through. More and more players are tired such kind of games. If you like pokeman, you should try it when you have a free afternoon and decide whether you are willing to stay or remove it from your hard disk.

Beijing 2008 Olympics

2008.08.08 2:05 am »Author: Mr. Fmmorpg »

Beijing

We, Fmmorpg.com wish Beijing 2008 Olympics a success!