Open beta date and more!

**Asseroth** Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:49 am

Some highlights!

Open Beta Announcement

We are pleased to announce the release date for Open Beta - 12:00 am (midnight) Pacific Time on March 17th. Players can expect the following to occur:

1. Closed beta servers will shut down at 10 am Pacific Time on March 16th.
2. All characters created in Closed Beta will be wiped. Clean slate for everyone. This will be our last character wipe.
3. The cash shop will be open for purchases with Zen when Open Beta launches.

I will discuss development plans for the next couple of weeks below, but first I wanted to announce something exciting: the closed beta contest!

Patch Notes

A full changelog of the changes/fixes in this patch is not available. The following are highlights of the changes and additions:

-Announcements no longer scroll across the screen

-Tons of localization work has been done. Most of it has been in the higher level areas.

-Lots of new quests have been added to the game. These are distributed through all regions of the game.

-Fairy Tale quests are no longer automatically given to players. Seek out the Eldest Matchmaker in Pokari to get these daily quests

-Like Master, Like Pet. Masters who transform into monsters in the same family as their pet will receive a skill. It is only available when transformed and your pet is summoned.

-NPCs have studied the Rosetta Stone and learned to speak English. Please let us know what you think about the new voices.

-Interface tweaks for auto-help and transform

Read it all here.