Yearly Archives: 2007

Tales of Pirates: The Eighth Sever Up

More and more players have joined Tales of Pirates (http://top.igg.com) since its beta test, it also stimulates us to make further development of the game. Here, IGG are pleased to announce that launch the eighth server named Phoenix Isle on June 27th in order to meet the need of number increasing as well as offering better services for our players.



Besides, to celebrate the launch of new server, we will release some interesting and exciting events including leveling competition. This time, not only will the winners of leveling competition be rewarded handsomely, but also the lucky players who rank 100, 200, 300…1000 respectively will be rewarded. Below are some details of the upcoming leveling competition:

Leveling Competition:
The event will commence at EST 04:00 a.m., June, 26th and end at EST 04:00 a.m., July, 4th. The 25 highest level players at EST 04:00 a.m., July, 4th will be the final winners. In addition, the lucky players who rank 100, 200, 300…1000 respectively at that moment will be awarded 200,000 coins each.

Prizes:
The First Prize (one in total): a suit of pirate dress plus 5 million coins
The Second Prizes (three in total): a suit of pirate dress plus 3 million coins for each
The Third Prizes (five in total): a suit of pirate dress plus 1 million coins for each
Honorable Mentions: (sixteen in total): 500 thousand coins for each
For more detail about those events, please visit our official site: http://top.igg.com

Welcome to the upcoming new TOP server!

First Look of Preview of Zu Online

June 20th 2007, preview site of the fourth MMORPG of IGG – Zu Online (http://zu.igg.com) comes in front of the global audience. With the first look of its preview site, Zu Online, a fantasy online MMORPG adapted form the classical Chinese fantasy novel Tales of the Zu, has unveiled its mask.


With a strong oriental legendary style, the preview site of Zu Online boasts a mystic and romance flavor. Latest news about Zu Online will be released on the preview site, providing an excellent platform for the players who are in love with classical Chinese immortal and knight-errant culture to exchange ideas and thoughts. The forum will also be the place where information from the official, thoughts from the players merges.


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Set on the oriental immortals and knight-errant, ZU Online bring the soul of the original work into the game world, which highlight justice and self-perfection. All these features endow Zu online with a rich culture connotation, creating an astonishing myth world in the cyber sphere.

Zu online will come at the end of this August. Please pay close attention to the preview site for the latest news.

More details in http://zu.igg.com

Myth War Review

Myth War is a 2D MMORPG being published by IGG.com. It can best be described as a pet-oriented, cel-shaded game that encourages teamwork with other players. This was the first of three (soon to be four) completely free games from the company, which makes money by selling various items in an item mall for real world money. With all of this in mind, I wanted to take a look at the game as a whole.

The graphics of Myth War area little dated, but still very unique for this genre of games. Only one MMORPG came to market featuring cel-shading and it barely lasted outside the first month of release. The environments are done in an isometric perspective which makes it look and feel 3D without actually being 3D. One flaw with this though is that the camera is no controllable by the player so you are stuck viewing things how the developer wants you to. Also, the combat is completely 2D turn-based leaving everything feeling a little flat.

The gameplay of Myth War though is far from flat. There are four races with both male and female being selectable. What is not told to you though during the creation process is that your sex determines your class. Males are typically attack oriented (through melee or ranged attacks) while females are focused on defensive measures (like healing and buffing). Crafting is possible by gathering gems which can then be refined and used to enhance equipment in a variety of ways. This is not really crafting so much as enhancing equipment, but it keeps things focused on the combat and not material gathering. Combat, while turn-based, is very quick and requires knowledge of one’s own character and the enemies being face to make quick work of them or face certain death. There is a tutorial available in the starting area as well, teaching new players everything they need to know about fighting and their class. My biggest gripe would have to be the rebirth system, which grants a very substantial power boost to those who reach the highest levels once through and can then try again with a different class and more power. This makes it a bit harder to level through the first time but gives players something to strive for.

Some would look at the audio as something a 1990’s action game composer would use. I tend to look at it as something fitting the whole theme and feel of the game. Music plays everywhere and matches the tone set. Combat is a quicker, more frantic music accompanied by sound effects that depend on what skills and weapons are being used. This may not win any awards for having the best sound in a game, but it far better than some of the other games that are being brought to the market today.

One of the most important aspects for any MMORPG is the community. While I wish I could say that this was the best community ever….I cannot. On the bright side, it is one of the better ones as players were more than happy to answer any questions I had. Some would even role play with you if you got into character and found the right conditions. As with any MMO community, there were spammers, jerks and other assorted people that you wish you could punch right in the face. The GMs do a fairly good job at handling any complaints about this when it happens though, so it is not something to worry about.

Performance of the game is one of the weak areas, though this may have been addressed already or will be soon. Lag was prevalent over each of the four servers, and cannot be attributed to system lag on my end as I have a fairly high-end rig. Hopefully this can be taken care of swiftly by making adjustments to the network code or to the server capacity. Considering this is a free game though, one just cannot expect it to run perfectly smooth.

All in all, Myth War is a solid game that everyone should take a look at. While they are not the developers, if they apply this talent for picking a good game to their games in development we can expect a lot of great things out of them. And hey, the game is free so why not spend a little time downloading the game and playing. You may just find your newest addiction!

Closed Beta is Scheduled on 22nd,June

It is with great pleasure and excitement that we are ready to start AoA’s closed beta. We do expect you gamers to experience this quite unique MMORPG with great enthusiasm. Here, we want to inform gamers that the current versions of AoA is not the final version for commercialization. We have the following three purposes to release the current version.
• Firstly, we want to introduce our product–AoA to the entire world, hoping of letting the players get the idea of AoA and of experiencing what AoA provides.
• Secondly, we hope to receive the suggestions about AoA from players who have experienced the current beta. We want to know what the players expect for the game, and we also want to find out what the players’ taste and interest are. That will give us a huge help in both bettering our product and keeping a right direction of further development.
• Thirdly, as Snail Game is a Chinese online game developer, we may have some problems in the translation. We hope all the players can give us a hand by providing the poor translations you will find out to GM.
We are looking forward to your reactions and we sincerely appreciate your patience and help.
You can get your account on OnRpg very soon or join our forum at bbs.aoaus.com to register for your account immediately.

IGG Announces a New MMORPG: Zu Online

IGG Announces a New MMORPG: Zu Online

IGG, an online game operator in North American, is best known for the good quality of its online mmorpg Myth War Online£¬Voyage Century Online and Tales of Pirates which have successfully been operated in North American for a long time and are popular among fantastic and marine time fonder. Moreover, with the motto of Top Game, Top Service, IGG bring new blood into America online game industry, which is welcomed by our players and brings them a more enjoyable and relaxed game experience.

After these successes, IGG bring its new MMORPG to the global players Zu Online. The closed beta test of this game will start in September, 2007.

Zu Online ¬ which refers to lots of classical sutras, has its setting based on the supernature novel—The Life of Swordsman in a area called Zu. It is an elaborately and well-designed 3D MMORPG with a rich culture of immortals and knight-errants. Its most outstanding feature is putting emphasis on the traditional Chinese culture of monkery. The in-game quests will boost the development of storyline. Players will be able to taste flying by riding a sword, consubstantiating god and Buddha, forging mystic weapons, creating sects and other else amusing. Zu Mountain, these two characters do not only represent a range of mountains and streams. By contrast, considerable ghosts, immortals, knight-errants and uncanny fairylands have been tightly fastened to them. Zu Mountain has become the pronoun of the millenarian oriental culture of immortals and monkery. Zu Online is a story about the immortals monkery and battles against the evil. It has attracted much attention since its debut. We believe that Zu online will be a focus and banner of the new online games in 2007.

The official preview website of Zu Online will be released soon. The website address is http://zu.igg.com. Please pay close attention to the upcoming test as well as other information of this amusing game then.

Savage Eden Server Cluster Expansion announced by New Game World

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA—JUNE 14, 2007– NEW GAME WORLD, INC. New Game World has announced the launch of a newly expanded server cluster for its Savage Eden “Foretold Strife” game world. This new server cluster is being implemented to handle the recent surge in subscribers to Savage Eden’s Foretold Strife cluster, which is designed to meet the needs of international subscribers interested in special events based on GMT.

“It is exciting to see that since the release of the Dmitron Expansion, activity in Savage Eden’s Foretold Strife game world has grown some 400-percent”, said Edward Andercheck, New Game World, Inc., Chairman, “The new server cluster we are adding is specifically designed to provide a great game play experience for our customers participating in the new event driven features of the “Foretold Strife” world.

<p> New Game World publishes and operates Savage Eden, a popular Massively Multiplayer Online role playing game developed by T Entertainment Corp. The Dmitron Expansion was the exciting culmination of two years of development work, demonstrating the team’s commitment to our network of gamers. Players can take on new roles as venders, or merchants in this GMT based Foretold Strife world, or participate in our live GM operated game events, including special challenge quests and the game’s enormously successful soccer tournaments.

New Game World, Inc. is a publisher of online interactive entertainment content. New Game World is committed to building a social network that is responsive to online game players who seek the opportunity to enjoy, and be a part of innovative content, evolving games and dynamic websites.

New DOFUS 1.19 update available

The new DOFUS update is now available on our download webpage.

In this new DOFUS version, discover the brand new idyllic sceneries: the rocky inlet of Astrub and the Cania Bay! Dinks, Crabs and Raul Mops will be waiting for you!

If you’re looking for a new attitude (emote) go and meet Sponge Mob! He opens the gates of his Sand Dungeon to either beginners or advanced players.

May you be more interested in plot and adventure, you’ll be glad to participate in the new Allister Quests!!! However, if you’re more into action and want to fight hard, you might want to go to the Bwork Village…

Besides, everyone will be pleased to find new DOFUS pets; one of which will offer you the same bonuses than that of the Dragoone!

Finally, we technically improved the DOFUS client to reduce memory leak problems.

Voyage Century: Item Mall Summer New Arrivals

A serial of Skill Promotion Handbook has arrived in Voyage Century item mall! That’s good news for the players who are fond of skill learning. When Phase 2 skills reach the upper limit of 8, players can continue to upgrade Phase 2 skills by using this handbook. While using the Skill Promotion Handbook, the specific skills will upgrade to Phase 2. Just a simple click, player’s character will be more capable. For more details, please go to Item Mall (http://vc.igg.com/shop/goods_index.php).

Skill Promotion Handbook helps player be an all-round navigator. The idea of producing this item is originated from fancy VCO fans who are still not satisfied with the fixed 8 skills and expects more. After learning this, IGG developing team commence to create this item. They believe this item can maximize the character’s capability to all the fields and conquer the world.

Voyage Century is always to create the gaming atmosphere—–player orientation. We are trying to make full use of our resources and energies and allocate them to players’ needs. VCO is the completely free platform for players to perform and accomplish the voyage dream.

"Free game First-class service"
Please check the official site:http://vc.igg.com for more details
The first 3D nautical online game brings a new age into MMORPG!

Tales of Pirates Patch Notes

Notes for the latest patch of ToP (http://top.igg.com) have been released and now are available for viewing.
1. Help System
Clicking the Question button, it turns to the Help System, from which players can get their answers including game operation, characters and NPC introduction, as well as useful information, like anti-fraud, etc.
Click here (http://top.igg.com/info.php?articleId=367) to have more details.
2. New Sever
The seventh TOP server—Gem Isle has been launched on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007.
Click here (http://top.igg.com/info.php?articleId=361) to get more information about the activities.