Who said WoW was unassailable?
4-Jan-2008This game looks like an end-run around WoW’s strengths: storyline depth, spelling, grammar, good localization quality and intentional humour.
From the Elf Online newbie quest database:
Quest name: Meng San’s worries
Quest level: 6~99
Rewarded goods: Fatal Wrath Kerchief 7J?21001?
Procedure: 1.Go to Uncle Lin in Sunset Prairie to buy a bottle of Injure Curer for Iron Arm Meng San in West Carefree Village.
[...]
Quest name: Beat elf
Quest level: 1~99
Procedure: 1.Go to HaiLiGe in North Wulong Village after killed 10 Snot Elf in Tranquil Seacoast 1.
And having agreed to join up, this is displayed after the “congratulations!” message:
Play Elf Online, Earn Cash.
Rare Items for Your Choose.
Cashes Points Rare Pets.
And, err, the download instructions look pretty frightening for Vista users:
1.Client latest version 2.0.2.496, about 890 M;
2.You can use either BT or HTTP to download. BT is recommended;
3.If you use the Vista O/S, please don’t install the game in disk C;
4. If you can’t login the game after downloaded and installed the client, please download manual update patch.
Even now I feel strangely drawn to play.
h/t Broken Toys
Update: Caution… you can’t delete or cancel your account details so be sure to use a pseudonym and a disposable email address during registration. And I can’t figure out how to… err… get an ID for this free game. Impenetrable grammar has its downsides too…
Oh yeah. Does that not just make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, or what?
IIRC, all I did to get a sign-on was to visit happymmo.com (the main site) and sign-up… it didn’t even work at the time I did it (because EO was in closed-beta), but when EO went to open beta, then my closed-beta sign-on stopped working and the one I’d gotten from happymmo just magical began to work.
Interestingly, I’d gotten the sign-on which works *now* because – like you – I couldn’t understand the instructions to join.
Eventually, I stumbled upon the forum thread full of email addresses publicly posted from people asking for a sign on, so figured I’d give that a whirl, too. Heh.
Aha, thanks for the tip. Having bravely/stupidly used a non-disposable email address and closed my eyes & crossed my fingers while running the installer, I just have to find a way in.