The week that was and how it should have been
September 6, 2008 by Joel Tan
Filed under Asian MMO, Asian MMO Players, Coming Soon, Dekaron, Fly For Fun, Gravity, Level Up! Games, MMORPG, MMORPG News, My World, Perfect World, Ragnarok Online, Requiem Bloodymare, mobiusgames
First off, I’d like to apologize to the thousands upon thousands (yeah, right) followers of this space for the seemingly long lull this past week. Truth is, I’ve been slaving in front of the PC to bring you more Asian MMORPG goodness than you can handle.
Well, it has been both a very productive and unproductive week for me, depending on how you look at things. Productive because I’ve been playing non-stop, except for the repeated bathroom breaks due to cold weather and the body’s need to replenish energy by taking in food and getting short, energizing catnaps.
For the most part, I’ve been dipping my grubby fingers in five good MMORPGs, namely Perfect World, Ragnarok Online, Fly For Fun, Requiem: Bloodymare, and Dekaron. With the rig I’ve got, I can only play two games at a time—that is, if the hack-prevention program of the games don’t interfere with each other. (For example, I’ve found out that I can play Perfect World and Dekaron at the same time but not Fly For Fun and Requiem: Bloodymare. It’s also funny the way Ragnarok Online and Requiem: Bloodymare don’t get along well on your PC despite being developed by the same company, Gravity).
Ahh, wait! Did I say two games at the same time? No bots here, just a lot of micromanagement or time spent vending in one game and grinding in the other. There’s also the beauty known as craft leveling, which, to my knowledge, can only be done in Perfect World.
I was supposed to do a play for a few hours and post something about the experience thing. But the moments I spent playing these five games just gave me a lot of fun and stuff to waste time on that in the end I decided to gather as much data I could, collate them, and eventually come up with great articles for your reading pleasure. Let’s see how that turns out.
AFK’ing, eh? I think Granado Espada, Dekaron, and Cabal have some of the better AFK features in MMOs.
Granado Espada: you can leave your characters online and let them kill everything around them until they either (gulp) die or get reported as a bot (did IAHGames already solved that Korean captcha problem?).
Dekaron: Once you get a Veteran’s Amulet (after finishing the newbie dungeon), you can auto-fish while u craft in Perfect World.
Cabal has another one where u can leave your character online and have it kill everything in sight.