Perfect World Philippines Chinese New Year event: Seeing red
January 27, 2009 by Joel Tan
Filed under Asian MMO, Asian MMO Players, Character Customization, Guilds/Clans/Factions, Level Up! Games, MMORPG, MMORPG News, My World, Perfect World, Random Rants
January 21, 2009, around 6 p.m., GMT+8:00. Around 200 characters on the Tiger Server of Perfect World Philippines converged at the Great Wall to join the celebration of Chinese New Year.
All dressed in red and shades of red, the avatars welcomed the Year of the Ox with fashion and style, and of course, with bow and arrows, swords, spears and axes, and bursts of powerful spells as they strutted their stuff down the length of the Great Wall and defended the land against powerful soulless beasts.
Ehem. Yeah, that’s how the story would have been written in a bit of journalese …read more
Perfect World: Stop blocking the teleporters!
December 26, 2008 by Joel Tan
Filed under Asian MMO, Asian MMO Players, Guilds/Clans/Factions, Level Up! Games, MMO Guides, MMO-Etiquette, MMORPG, My World, Perfect World
A couple of weeks ago, some players (mostly Yaojings or Werefoxes), desperate for attention, blocked two Perfect World Philippines Tiger server teleporters, Dragon City South and Universal City, with their pets. Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem since most veteran Perfect World players know the workaround—that of pressing Shift on the keyboard while the cursor is hovering over the area where the teleporter is located. But what of new players?
I could just imagine the horror of watching valuable Internet and computer rental time (fact: most online games fanatics in the Philippines play at Internet cafes) run out while trying in …read more
