MMOs
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MapleStory & BOUNTY BAY
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MapleStory begins a new tale in Europe NEXON Europe launches its hugely popular, free-to-play online RPG across Europe Thursday 12th July/...Nexon Group, a pioneer of interactive entertainment software and the world’s leader in massively multiplayer online games , is pleased to announce the launch of its hugely popular and completely free to play online game, MapleStory, across Europe. Originally launching in South Korea in April 2003, the immensely successful MapleStory already boasts over 67 million registered users across Asia and North America. MapleStory is a unique 2D, side-scrolling, massively multiplayer online role-playing game, featuring charming, hand-drawn graphics and simple, yet impressively deep gameplay mechanics. Players in MapleStory can look forward to facing exciting quests and fearsome – not to mention cute! – monsters as they journey through a colourful and lively world, bursting with the best elements from both popular online RPGs and classic 2D platform games. Players can enjoy a multitude of different skills, spells and abilities throughout MapleStory, as well as numerous community features, including detailed friends lists, communication through humorous character animations and the facility to form Guilds and adventure parties. On top of this, MapleStory retains a simple, user-friendly interface, making it suitable for gamers of all ages, gender and gaming experience. While the MapleStory software is completely free to down load and play online, players can also customise and personalise their in-game characters through the purchase of costume accessories and player enhancements via a microtransaction system. This involves pre-purchasing ‘NEXON cash’ that can be exchanged for goods and services at a special cash shop within the game. NEXON Europe plans to fully support MapleStory Europe’s strong and growing fan-base with weekly updates. New game modes, quests, player skills and in-game items are just some of the planned additions, as well as regular in-game events specifically designed to tie in with major European cultural events. “We are very excited to finally bring the amazing world of MapleStory to Europe,” commented Calvin Yoo, Director of International Business Development at NEXON Europe. “Now gamers all over Europe can enjoy MapleStory’s delightful visuals, vibrant community and simple, yet truly compelling gameplay. We look forward to making many more exciting MapleStory announcements over the coming months.” MapleStory is currently available to play in five languages across Europe: English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch. |
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Ahoy you landlubbers!
Have you met Pirate-Pete and Cimitar already? These two groovy buccaneers are already soap stars in their home territory, the German North Sea and the Bounty Bay Online blog, where they attract masses of willing women as well as other hardcore pirates. To pay them tribute,
visit: http://blog.bountybayonline.de/ Leaving the dirty rotten scoundrels aside for now, it’s time to unravel one of the many cool features of Bounty Bay Online. The MMOG lets players sail over the seven seas of 15th century and make discoveries on land and at sea. There are over 1,600 of these so-called findings. Discovered findings are saved in the player’s logbook, which is also an indicator about how far they have been around in the online world. Discovering findings works either via free play or about special quests, which are part of virtual history. Right now, the Bounty Bay Online closed beta test is running. Players can sign up to take part for free: www.bbo.yusho.de/en/Beta_Registration Bounty Bay Online puts gamers in the time of early discoveries in the 15th century. Every gamer builds his own online destiny, whether you chose to be a merchant, adventurer, fisherman or pirate. Besides Europe, Africa and Asia also await players to be explored. Scheduled release is end of July 2007. For more info visit: www.bountybayonline.com
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