I don’t want to use the terms guild war because I don’t want people to misunderstand that this article is about Guild War, a great game from NCSoft.  I am talking about guild vs guild.  Some games called this guild with another terms, name it: faction, circle, order, etc.  But still, usually the have a feature to have a war between guild. 

Btw, this article is inspired by Hyuk’s article. 

So if you want to have a guild vs guild, here’s the best reason to do it in my opinion:

7. Game event

GMs announcing that a special event is being held and it’s a contest between guilds.  Or maybe the game is implementing this routine event, guild vs guild.  You have an active guild, so it’s no harm to participate in it, right?  It’s a very logic reason to have a guild war.  No further explanation needed, I think.

6. To show who’s better, who’s the best, who’s the strongest

Why would you form a strong guild if you never show it to other?  Show them who’s the biggest, who’s the strongest, who’s the best, just like what Muhammad Ali did.  It’s a good reas

Last April 2008, Pangya has closed their services in my country.  It was a popular casual online game.  But due to many factors, it has to be the new inhabitants in the online game graveyard.  There are several popular online games that loosing their players and finally ended their services or has a state of “brain dead” in my country.  Nexia, Tantra, RYL, were some of examples where popular games finally ended or loosing players.  We don’t have to cover about unpopular ones like TS Online, Laghaim, Stargate Online, Deco Online, and so on, because it will eventually be dead.  So a once popular online games, doesn’t mean a long lasting popularity.

In Memorial Of:

However, when it comes to game mods, we have different cases.  Some popular mods are even still played until now!  I barely find players that still playing Tantra in the internet café of my country nowadays, but I still find some players training their team in Counter Strike.  I have friends to play many online game together as a guild, but our guilds has been inactive for quite some times in some online games.  But we still routinely play

I haven’t had a chance to read blogs in MMOSite lately.  So, during past few days, I spent some times to read them.  I have to say you guys really done great jobs writing articles.  I really enjoyed them.  I also discovered some articles regarding cyber love (and an article with that exact title from cesarsuki).

It will be really sweet to found your soulmate during your gameplay.  The one who understand your other life, your cyberlife.  It is a life that not all of your relatives and your closest ones would understand.  So if your spouse can be found in an online game, I have to admit IT IS very very ideal.  You can spend your time together, knowing that she or he will understand your passion in that “other” world, eliminating the boring grinding because you found an excitement slaying monster together, and still many more things to do together.

HOWEVER, all things in this world usually come in the form of 2 side of balance.  Dark and Light, Yin and Yang, Good and Bad, The Forces and Dark Forces, and so on.  That’s why, I also understand that game (online or not) will bring 2 effects too, good and bad.  I

I have this funny conversation during one of my gameplay, while L is me, and A is a player in that game:

A: (shouting) GM, where can I find NPC Z???

L: (whisper to A) You can find NPC X by reading the website guide for NPC.

A: (whisper to me) Which part of the website?

L: (whisper to A, after take a look at the website) Just go to coordinate x, y, u will find NPC Z.

A: (whisper to me) R u a GM?

L: (whisper to A) No I am not.

A: (shouting) GM, where can I find NPC Z???

L: … SWT!!!

I thought to myself: OMG, just because I am not a GM and you don’t believe my information?  And it is only some click away for you to find it by yourself at the website, but you need GM just to find an NPC???  So, I try to “enlighten” him about the usual GM function.  I never become a GM in an online game, but I am sure that one of their job is not to help a newbie to find an NPC.

L: Have u tried the coordinate?  It’s there, u don’t need a GM to find it.  Contact GM if you find bug.

A: R u a GM?

L: I told you before, I am not, just try to help u find the NPC.  Besides GM will only respond to you for bug or special report like when you try to repo

First of all, I will say this:

“LET THERE BE CLONE!”

Why?

Because I have seen too much in my life that the act of copying (or borrowing the idea) lead to many great products in their future.  I’ll give an example later.

Another reason is, it will promote the genre heavily.

Some will say: “BUT CLONING IS NOT THE SAME AS COPYING”

Exactly!  Clone in terms of genetic biology science refers to a word of identical EXACT replica.  So if you really never find a game that EXACTLY the same, why do all people keep using this term as a word to represent someone who copy some aspect of game to develop a new one?  They are not doing the real cloning in this term.  Splices point of view explain it, so I won’t cover it anymore in here.  Go read it here.

Yes, I understand there are so many terms out there for clone’s meanings.  In this case, from this point onward, I will use this terms as the ‘usual’ meaning tendency, that a game is similar to other in many many ways.

Genre Promotion

Before I explain my first reason to support the clone, I will go to the second: clone war will promote the genre heavily.  If the genre become alive, it will attract many people or companies to consider penetrating the gen

First of all, data about subscribers sometimes can be varied according to many sources.  (I recommend MMOSite to upload a better image for the chart).  If you really want to take a look at clear chart about Mike’s data quickly, maybe you can visit here. 

But if you read this article, you will read that Lineage II has surpassed it’s predecessor by many times.  And even if the data must be debated for the sources have their own reasons, just take this into your consideration:

Releasing products in nowaday MMORPGs market, would be really different compare to previous old day, because of one thing:COMPETITION!  During 1998, when Lineage I was released, I can barely see a new MMORPG in 6 months.  While today, I am even confused to try which new game to start because sometimes a new MMORPG can be released in a spread of days!  Lineage II was also has to compete with private server, a problem th

In 2004, I had a chance to visit Korea.  During my visitation, I also met with some people from several game publisher such as Paha Schultz from NCSoft (half Germany half Korean), Luke Byung Ho Park from Neowiz, Michael Lim from Softmax (now he owns an online game publisher in Germany), and Min Kim from Wizet (yes, maybe you noticed him in North America as a person from Nexon, but he is actually from Wizet).  Their explanation about Korean gaming world really amazed me.  And although I knew there are professional gamers in Korea, but that’s the first time I knew about Lee Yun Yeol and Lim Yo Hwan (please do not misunderstand me, I didn’t meet them), 2 top professional starcraft players.  Celebrity in Korean gaming world.  Lee Yun Yeol earned a 3 years contract from sponsor worth US $ 830,000 while Lim Yo Hwan is known as the highest paid professional gamers in the gaming world history.  His annual earnings exceed US $ 300,000 with additional US $ 90,000 annually endorsement contract.  The starcraft league is aired in 2 major games dedicated channel TV, MBCGame and Ongamenet.  And those 2 guys really had a huge fans because of these conjunction.  Game became a serious industry that

After asking around to this site about this game and don’t find any clue about them, I decide to give a try to this game.  Cuz I thought, hey it’s just a 490MB file to download.  Won’t hurt much to try it anyway.  Btw, MOF is a F2P item mall based subscription game. 

Before I begin, some people are thinking that I hate 2D MMORPG because of my review about Ghost Online.  I have to say they are wrong.  I love 2D MMORPG.  I am a gamer even since Atari was come out as the only console game out there.  I even install some old RPG of SNES in my PDA.  So contrary to what some people think when they read about my review of Ghost Online, I love playing 2D MMORPG.  And so far, Master of Fantasy (MOF) has fullfil my hope that this genre can still produce a good title.

You can read about the background and some glimpse of the games in my previous article that asking around about this game.  And if you think that the characters seems to be similar with Pangya, a casual golf online game, you are right.  Because the character designer of both games is still the same team.

The graphic of MOF is cute and somehow I have a feeling that Maple Story 2 will have a serious contender because of this game

I have met some friends that asking about how come I found so many topics to write about in my MMOSite gameblog?  Some of them already join MMOSite for blogging too but wondering about what to cover.  I also found some blog asking about what to write.

Well the answers of that questions are not easy, I know.  But, here’s what I want to share to all of you on how I ‘found’ topics to write about.  I am not trying to teach you how to write or what topics to be written.  I am just SHARING.  If you feel that you don’t have any difficulties like what my friends mentioned above, just skip this article.  You don’t need it.

Purpose

Now ask yourself, what’s your purpose on writing in your blog.  Please refer to Layce’s article about the definition of blog, I’m not gonna repeat it in here.  But a blog is where you can express what you’ve think about something.  And if you have a purpose when you’re writing, you WILL EVENTUALLY find a topic.

Let’s take an example:

I have played so many games in my life, and yet sometimes I have my own opinion about games (certain or general).  But I don’t have that much chance in saying it to other people especially when they are having a different topics.  So th

I don’t really know how to categorize this article into.  It’s not a review nor a depth review.  I just want to write this, because when I’m playing Granado Espada, this is what I felt.  There are so many good review out there that you can read.  This is just about my feelings toward the game.

Granado Espada or Sword of The New World, is far from perfect.  It doesn’t have stat allocation so that the character can be differentiate to each other in terms of character type, it doesn’t have a unique distinctive battle system, they don’t prevent any RMT company spamming around, some of premium items are out of balance (lucifer wings for example, which make people refuse to enter the pvp and faction wars) and I’m really having difficulties when dealing with equipment because there is no way you can assign a hotkey for equipment change.  So yeah, they are far from perfect.  But when I play this game, one thing that I found is that the team behind this game really put their heart to make this game different and alive!

Why would I said that?

The graphic of Granado Espada, while it wouldn’t be the best graphic of today OL game, but I can see that the team behind this game, is paying really h