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…
3.If you use the Vista O/S, please don’t install the
Jeff Freeman | 5-Jan-2008Oh 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
Chris | 5-Jan-2008Aha, 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.