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Pumpkin Jack Visits Pandora

Oct 9 2012

Pumpkin Jack Visits Pandora

Greetings, Pandorians!

Pumpkin Jack is visiting Royal Street, Astir with Treatbringers for all! Visit this adorable Lapin to claim your Halloween sword and read about the story of the Pumpkin Ghosts:

Pumpkin Jack offers a variety of random rewards, all for collecting 5 Pumpkins from the ghosts on Soplar Highway.

When I asked our editor what he thought of Pumpkin Jack, he said, “The best part of Pumpkin Jack was how Ghostbusters and Star Wars references fit right in with the text!” Pay attention to Pumpkin Jack’s explanation to see if you catch the hat-tips to some of our favorite series. ;)

One of Pumpkin Jack’s rarest drops is the Pumpkin Hat, an adorable little headpiece that offers Charm and Dark Resistance +3%. I turned in more than 100 Pumpkins without a single hat, but GIANTBABBY picked up a hat on his first try! Cast your lucky bones before going for this prize.

For players who aren’t interested in killing waves of Pumpkin Ghosts, we’re also offering the Nosferatu Wand, Pumpkin Wand, Trick Hat, and Trick Cloak in the Charge Shop! With a Zero Risk Halloween event, you can upgrade any of these items—or Poison Weapons—without fear of losing a broken item forever. (Read more.)

You tell us! We’d love to hear your thoughts.

  • Are you participating in the Pumpkin Jack event?
  • What are your plans for Halloween?
  • Which firework is better: Jack O’ Lantern; or Bat Firework?

By Flailing Monkey • Pandora Press • 0 • Tags: , ,

State of the Nations: Varik Sweeps

Sep 13 2012

State of the Nations: Varik Sweeps

Welcome back to the State of the Nations on the ATLUS ONLINE blog!

Starting this week, we’ll be featuring the State of the Nations on Thursdays for both the blog and forum communities. Each one will come with different commentary, so hardcore fans can visit both State of the Nations to get a double-scoop of awesome. :)

Forneus

Varik swept all Clash of the Nations last week, with Empire coming in second. What could be bringing Varik to the headfront of Clash? Congratulations to the Confederation!

In Invasion of the Zealots and War of Dominion, Varik doesn’t make the cut. Empire defeats the most golems (14 kills!), then storms into Kingdom and takes the castle. Congratulations, Latugan!

The Decisive Battle of Sieghelm is where Kingdom gets a chance to shine. They take a decisive victory, with Varik closely behind. Thumbs up, St. Pflestein!

The verdict? All nations are experiencing victory, but each battlefield changes the fray. Keep up with the neck-and-neck war results in your conquest to dominate Forneus!

Astaroth

In the grand lands of Astaroth, Clash of the Nations fell divided between Kingdom and Varik, with Empire coming in second during the 9/7 war. Grats to everyone who participated. ;)

In Invasion, Kingdom took the forefront with 14 golems, while Varik came in second as the challenger. Varik defeated the defending kingdom and seized the Dominion castle.

Kingdom continued its winning streak in Siege of Sieghelm, with Varik in second place. Awesome job, Kingdom!

By Flailing Monkey • Pandora Press, State of the Nations • 0 • Tags: , ,

100 Gamer Acronyms

Aug 28 2012

100 Gamer Acronyms

Ever log into a free MMORPG and get lost in the explosion of acronyms and lazyspeak? ATLUS ONLINE is here to help! This list should help you prepare for the MMO-verbage in Pandora Saga, MegaTen, and other free MMORPGs.

  1. LOL – laugh out loud
  2. RL – real life
  3. IRL – in real life
  4. ITRW – in the real world
  5. KIK – typing-impaired LOL
  6. LULZ – messed up LOL
  7. ROFLMAO – roll on the floor laughing my #$% off
  8. LMFAO – laughing my #%&@ing #$% off
  9. FTW – for the win
  10. WTF – what the @$%^
  11. OMG – oh my gosh
  12. AMG – ah my gosh
  13. ZOMG – zee-oh my gosh
  14. OMGYS – oh my gosh, you suck
  15. STFU – shut the #$%^ up
  16. JK – just kidding
  17. IAMF – it’s all my fault
  18. GTFO – get the #$%^ out
  19. BRB – be right back
  20. TTYL –  talk to you later
  21. AFK – away from keyboard
  22. BIO – “biological,” or bathroom break
  23. ATM – at the moment
  24. OMW – on my way
  25. BTW – by the way
  26. IMO – in my opinion
  27. NVM – nevermind
  28. TY – thank you
  29. WB – welcome back
  30. NP – no problem
  31. TYVM – thank you very much
  32. BBL – be back later
  33. OOM – out of mana (you might also see OOP, OOE, OOC)
  34. GTG – got to go
  35. IIRC – if I recall correctly
  36. FWIW – for what it’s worth
  37. IDK – I don’t know
  38. BOE – bind on equip
  39. BOP – bind on pickup
  40. PUG – pick up group
  41. PK – party kill / player killer
  42. PKK – player killer killer (that guy that hunts jerks)
  43. TPK – total party kill
  44. INC – incoming
  45. PVE – player versus enemy (essentially, player versus the game’s AI)
  46. PVP – player versus player
  47. PC – player character
  48. NPC – non-player character
  49. EXP/XP – experience points
  50. ALT – alternate character
  51. PL – power level
  52. LFG – looking for group
  53. QFT – quoted from truth
  54. RTFM – read the #$^%ing manual
  55. TP – teleport / town portal
  56. WTB – want to buy
  57. WTS – want to sell
  58. WTT – want to trade
  59. RPG – roleplaying game
  60. MMORPG – massively multiplayer roleplaying game
  61. PW – password / persistent world
  62. PWN – “I owned you” just got gamered
  63. PWNED – past tense of above
  64. LOS – line of sight
  65. FOV – field of view
  66. RTS – real time strategy
  67. TBS – turn based strategy
  68. TMG – time management games (hey-hey, BattleSpace!)
  69. DOT – damage over time
  70. DPS – damage per second
  71. HOT – heals over time
  72. HPS – heals per second
  73. AOE – area of effect
  74. BAMF – bad #$% mother #$%^@!
  75. BBIAB – be back in a bit
  76. CC – crowd control
  77. PST – please sent tell
  78. PSW – please send whisper
  79. DC – disconnect
  80. F2P – free to play
  81. FFS – for $#@%’s sake
  82. FUBAR – fouled up beyond recognition
  83. FYI – for your information
  84. GG – good game
  85. GM – game master
  86. IMBA – imbalanced
  87. L2P – learn to play
  88. NT – nice try
  89. OOYFM – out of your freaking mind
  90. PTR – public test realm
  91. QQ – cry more
  92. T4T – thanks for trade
  93. THTH – too hot to handle
  94. TLDR – too long, didn’t read
  95. TQVM – thank you very much
  96. W/E – whatever
  97. TY – thank you
  98. YT – your turn
  99. YRG – you are good
  100. ^5 – high five

Did we miss any? Comment with your additions! :)

By Flailing Monkey • Pandora Press • 0 • Tags: , ,

Friday Afternoon with Bacon

Aug 24 2012

Friday Afternoon with Bacon

The ATLUS ONLINE blog accrued an unprecedented amount of spam comments about bacon recipes, bacon boys, and banana milkshakes. This is a level up from the hundreds of “lista de emails” that roll in each week, yet we expect so much more!—legitimate comments like this:

Persona 4 is the best RPG ever made.

Only pathetic mongrels with no taste or class would not care about it.

That’s  fan speak. Right there.

This afternoon also included tremulous collections of poll data, Crowns deals that’ll knock your socks off, and rockin’ participation from the ATLUS ONLINE Facebook community. Then—before lunch claimed us all—we announced three winners for the MegaTen caption contest:

Protip: Click the image to enlarge it instead of burning your corneas with the 6pt font.

For fans waiting on the future tiered spender polls, expect the following items to pop up for vote during the next few days:

  • Data Ticket (Young Soul)
  • Destruction Avatar Ticket (Reverse)
  • Devil Prison Avatar Ticket
  • Sword of Heaven and Earth + Majesty COMP

Will you choose one of these epic rewards? …Or will the other mystery items get the majority vote?

You tell us! We’d love to hear your thoughts.

  • What’s your favorite breakfast?
  • What items would you liked to have seen in the Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 polls?
  • What’s your all-time favorite data ticket?

Thanks for your continued interest in the ATLUS ONLINE blog! :)

By Flailing Monkey • Demon Diary • 0 • Tags: , ,

Friday Morning with Bacon

Aug 10 2012

Friday Morning with Bacon

Hi all, Bacon’s Taken here!
Ever wonder what a Friday Morning with Bacon is like? I’m here to divulge. :)

It started with sitting down, waking up the computer, and logging into the kitten desktop of the ages:

Sometimes it pays to be forgetful… I always forget this cuteometer is hidden behind my million windows! After recovering from the morning squees, I stretched my fingers and got ready for the MegaTen forum crawl.

With the MegaTen 2012 Olympics, I thought I’d run into all the wacky and awesome MegaTen news for the week. But when I stumbled into Gunblazer 42′s link to the review from MMO Grinder, I thought, “Oh man, this is good stuff!” So I plopped it onto the MegaTen Facebook. (If you’re looking to recruit your friends for MegaTen, MMO Grinder hits all the basic mechanics a prospective player would want to know. It’s a fantastic and objective 24-minute video.)

Then I moved to the link Toaster Pastry left in my Instant Messenger: Botanica’s demonic doodles. I’ve got a weakness for the Creative Side of our community, which made this a special treat. Botanica’s Deviant Art is equipped with beautiful MegaTen artwork. Can you find the Jack Frost?

Next came the rereads from yesterday’s mega-event… I’m dubbing the Fish Crash! (Toaster Pastry’s going to kill me for bringing up this one.) An unintentional and monolithic fish spawn caused the server to go haywire for a couple of minutes. Some players are calling it the Greatest Event of All Time. Courtesy of MingMei’s screenshots:

It’s kind of reminiscent of this Jack Frost debacle:

With the MegaTen forum crawl completed, I moved on to Pandora Saga, and took a quick glance at BattleSpace and Knights of the Sky. This reminded me to log into BattleSpace and set up my queue. (Who am I in BattleSpace? You’ll never know… ;) ) And now here we are, at the ATLUS ONLINE blog.

There are other nuisances, like e-mails, Excel spreadsheets, and Notepad++, but that stuff’s just morning boring. (Woot, rhyming typo.) With lunchtime around the corner, I got to ask… Was a Friday Morning with Bacon everything you’d thought it’d be?

Oh, right. Let’s wrap up with… You tell us! We’d love to hear your thoughts.

  • Do you prefer this inside look in ATLUS ONLINE, or blog posts about the latest promotions and events?
  • Jack Frost or Goldfish?
  • What’d you do with your Friday morning?

Thanks for visiting the ATLUS ONLINE blog. :D

By Flailing Monkey • Demon Diary • 4 • Tags: , , , , , ,

MegaTen 2012 Olympics

Aug 9 2012

MegaTen 2012 Olympics

Greetings, MegaTeners!

What’s better than the 2012 London Olympics? The 2012 MegaTen Olympics, of course! Courtesy of Buddy-Budd PancakeMix, the ATLUS ONLINE forums were alive with Olympian performances… done by MegaTen demons in MS Paint.

Sounds ridiculous? How about amazing!? Wait till you see the post. Here are a few of our favorites…

This is the way to enjoy our Shin Megami Tensei free MMORPG in style. :)

While our players are coming up with fantastic Olympic-themed events, ATLUS ONLINE’s introduced the Back to School Tiered Spender for the upcoming school rush. For the next two weeks, players who buy in-game items get free school uniforms, school bags, and consumables to put into their virtual backpacks!

You tell us! We’d love to hear your thoughts.

  • How are you celebrating the 2012 London Olympics and Back to School rush?
  • What’s your favorite sport in the 2012 London Olympics?—and how can you take that sport into MegaTen?
  • If you’re attending school this year, what class are you looking forward to? What class are you dreading?

By Flailing Monkey • Demon Diary • 1 • Tags: , , , ,

Nine Sides of Pandora

Jul 30 2012

Nine Sides of Pandora

Hey there, Pandora adventurers!

If you haven’t set yourself up with the social side of ATLUS ONLINE, come visit our Internet hubs to +1, Like, and Tweet your favorite games. You could be missing out on limited-time freebies only available through these sites!

  1. Facebook: Every week, we host a Caption Contest that requires 10 seconds of your time. Enter for a chance to win pre-upgraded gear, hammers, and more!
  2. Google+: Be the first to add Pandora Saga into your Circle, and you could participate in some awesome new contests.!
  3. Twitter: Get Pandora Saga in your feed for the latest news and updates.
  4. Raptr: Follow Pandora Saga on Raptr to spread the word and /flex your game repertoire!
  5. Amazon.com: With Amazon.com Checkout, you can buy Crowns through one of the country’s favorite Internet stores. Write a customer review to let new players know about your free MMORPG of choice!
  6. Steam: Find community groups for Pandora Saga on Steam, a leader in downloadable games.
  7. Official Forums: Who could forget the official ATLUS ONLINE forums? This is your go-to for making new in-game friends, posting events, and discussing ideas.
  8. Official Site: When you need the latest news straight from the source, always head to Pandora Saga’s official site.
  9. Pandora Press: There’s also the blog, of course. ;)

You tell us! We’d love to hear your thoughts. First three commenters who reply to the You Tell Us! will receive a free Apprentice’s Hammer. Make sure to include your server and character name to qualify.

  • Where else have you seen Pandora Saga featured on the interwebs?
  • Where would you like to see Pandora Saga in the future?
  • How did you hear about Pandora Saga, ATLUS ONLINE’s free MMORPG?

By Flailing Monkey • Pandora Press • 19 • Tags: , ,

Technical Side of Knights

Jul 27 2012

Technical Side of Knights

The world of Odyssya is plagued by more than bandits and war!

For adventurers who have encountered technical difficulties with quest coordinates, game freezes, and stuck ships in our free MMORPG, Knights of the Sky… you’re in luck. As of the 7/26 patch, we’ve restored balance to the technical side of Knights. Log in to the restored world to experience changes like:

- Coordinates for critical quests
- Functional ships
- Smooth gameplay, without freezes or staggers
- Other miscellaneous bug fixes

To celebrate, we’ve introduced Legacy Gacha, a throwback to happier times. Now you can Gacha for as low as 1400 Crowns ($2) and enjoy the exclusive Hero artwork of Knights of the Sky! We’ve also included the all-new Hero Gacha VIII for a limited time.

We hope you enjoy the new changes.

You tell us! We’d love to hear your thoughts.

  • What other changes would you like to see in future Knights of the Sky patches?
  • What do you expect from your free MMORPG browser games?
  • Who’s your favorite Hero?

By Flailing Monkey • A Knight's Letter • 0 • Tags: , , ,

Eventful Explosion

Jul 24 2012

Eventful Explosion

Greetings, ATLUS ONLINE fans!

We’ve got enough promotions running right now to make our hearts explode. To all you sales and limited-time offer junkies, check out this week’s deals for our free MMORPGs:

  • Summer Cashback: Spend Crowns or Pandora Points in-game, get a 10% refund credited to your account on 8/1. Ends July 31st.
  • Summer of Pwnage: Cash in on Ultimate Game Cards for bonus items like Pandora Saga’s Passionate Glasses and MegaTen’s Hourglass of Reversal. Ends 7/31.
  • Double Game Coins: Double up your Crowns when you cash in Game Coins! Ends 7/26.

All of our free MMORPGs are also equipped with fantastic promotions and events:

Pandora Saga

  • Gacha Summer Special: Take a spin at Gacha for a chance to not just win a Prismatic or Obelisk Weapon… but a +7 version! You could also win a ticket good towards a +8 Elemental Weapon. Ends 7/31.
  • Spend PP for the Recipe: Spend 7,000 PP ($1o) to receive the exclusive Recipe: Wing Shield Vol. 3. Ends 7/31.
  • Zero-Risk Sonic: Get your Artisan’s Hammers cracking on Sonic Weapons! Ends 7/31.

MegaTen

BattleSpace

We hope you enjoy this eventful explosion from ATLUS ONLINE!

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Summer Sale: 10% Cashback!

Jul 23 2012

Summer Sale: 10% Cashback!

The summer sale is on!

Spend Crowns or Pandora Points on any of ATLUS ONLINE’s free MMORPGs and browser games to receive 10% back. All in-game purchases made between now and July 31st qualify for the 10% refund! For example, if you spend 2,100 Crowns in BattleSpace between now and July 31st, you’ll receive 210 Crowns at the end of the event.

This limited-time promotion is only available for purchases made in-game. This means if you have Crowns sitting in your account, you can use them now to cash in later!—but if you buy Crowns from the ATLUS ONLINE Marketplace and don’t use them, you will not qualify for the 10% refund.

For more information, visit our announcements on the official ATLUS ONLINE or Pandora Saga sites. Also check out the Summer of Pwnage promotion for more fun in the AO sun!

Bonuses will be distributed on August 1st. We appreciate your continued interest in ATLUS ONLINE.

You tell us! We’d love to hear your thoughts.

  • What will you be buying during the Summer Cashback promotion?
  • Which ATLUS ONLINE free MMORPGs and browser games do you spend Crowns on?
  • This summer, how many hours per day have you played free MMORPGs?

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