June 25th, 2008
After half a day of downloading, I finally got my Perfect World Philippines client up and running again. My first reaction to the latest Perfect World patch, Frost City: Both excited and disappointed. Let me explain.
I hate what they’ve done with the text or font. The previous font and spacing fit the Perfect World client […]
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June 25th, 2008
The other day, I wrote about my frustration over not being able to play Rising Force Online because of a faulty client. Yesterday, I spent the entire day offline. The day off would have been great if it had been an active choice. But, no, I was forced to stay offline because I had to […]
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June 23rd, 2008
It’s not that I don’t want to play, it’s just that I can’t. The installer I downloaded months ago, dubbed RF Online: Crimson Dawn gives me a flawed version of the game. How flawed? Well, let’s just say that after I click on the desktop shortcut, the launcher won’t, well, launch.
Too bad, really. I hear […]
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June 22nd, 2008
Yes, the wife and I have decided to call Ragnarok Online Philippines our temporary virtual home until the Guardians of Perfect World Philippines’ Tiger Server rethinks its policies or hell freezes over. Oh, you missed my tirade about the spat between me and another clan officer? Don’t worry … I took it all the gory […]
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June 22nd, 2008
No, I didn’t quit from the game. I just quit from my clan. But before I go into details, let me tell you a little about what has happened this past week.
The storm, Frank, hit this part of the Philippines so hard that power was knocked out Friday morning and stayed that way until last […]
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June 14th, 2008
I spent my last night in Manila (that is, before shuttling back to Leyte) playing MMORPGs like there was no tomorrow. At first, my MMORPG of choice, Perfect World, wouldn’t run. I thought there was something wrong with the PC so I asked the attendant at Phoenix, a 24-hour Internet and gaming cafe in Makati, […]
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June 13th, 2008
Yes, I’ve just received my closed beta account from Level Up! Games for its newest baby, Crazy Kart, an online racing game. I can’t really tell you much about the game, only that it plays a lot like Super Mario Kart of Nintendo fame.
Check out this video and see for yourself what Crazy Kart is […]
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June 10th, 2008
Recently, a clanmate, `Aribeth, has come under fire for her successive capture of the much-coveted Eye of the Jungle from the Jungle Relic, a dungeon in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Perfect World.
The tirades began as innocent questions on the Perfect World Philippines forums. Heck, the thread wasn’t even about `Aribeth’s success in getting […]
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June 9th, 2008
Just as I promised myself before I left Leyte for Manila, I visited Level Up! Games and had lengthy discussions with some of the local online games industry’s most charismatic personalities: Jake San Diego, Mon Macutay, Kiven Codamon, JC Medina, and Carlo Ople. I also had a short chat with Keith Morales, brand manager of […]
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June 8th, 2008
It seems IP e-Games huge investment in generating hype for its newest baby, Cabal Online, is paying off.
Everywhere I went on my second day in Metro Manila, I saw Cabal Online plastered, especially on dozens upon dozens of computer monitors in different Internet gaming cafes across the metropolis. The only person not playing (in the […]
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