Friday, January 16, 2009

The One About A Pleasant Distraction

Needless to say, it has been an absolutely dreadful month and an awful start to the New Year 2009. What with all the recent server disruptions and technical issues at all kinds of odd hours every 2 days, the entire team has become extremely discouraged and exhausted. More puzzling to us was... WHAT IS WITH ALL THIS BAD LUCK?! To the extent that Meepoktah even suggested that we go to our various temples and churches to pray over the weekend... @.@

Hopefully the Chinese New Year will bring in some peace and happiness - we're planning something like a Top 10 Best Selling Items to be on sale during this period with auspicious numbers ending with 888. Our dear Meepoktah a.k.a "King of All Things Auspicious & Superstitious", will be planning this project.

Meanwhile, the V3.0 client just came in 2 days ago and we have been feverishly testing it. Thankfully, bugs are pretty minor and if nothing major crops up, we should be on schedule to launch V3.0 The Zeia next Thursday. Even if there are delays, it isn't likely to be more than 1~2 weeks. Hmmm... but then again, with this dark cloud over us... maybe I should take back those words... (oh man, I am becoming so meepoktah)

Anyway, here's the tentative first week content launch schedule:
Thereafter, there will be patch updates every 2 weeks till we go into V3.3 in April'2009 (tentative schedule). These fortnightly patch updates are mostly cash item updates since most of the other content like the new maps and 2 RNPCs Selva and Nar will be released in the first week. Ania was supposed to be released in V3.0 but due to some fatal flaws in her character development, IMC has cancelled her recruitment till V3.3.

Despite the incredibly black mood that has descended, my day brightened overwhelmingly this evening when much to my surprise, a box of flowers with a pearl necklace was delivered anonymously to me in the IAHGames office!

Well, whoever you are, thank you for your lovely flowers. The beauty of the flowers coupled with the beauty of the thoughts and actions behind it are very much appreciated and treasured... :)

Hey wait a sec, I just noticed a card. What does it say?

"Dear Mistress, I look forward to my evenings with you."

EH!?!? Did I promise one of you an evening that I can't remember?!

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

congrats on your secret admirer, we all know you deserve it ;)

keep up the good work and thanks for updating :D

p.s. I am a Sword of the New World player but I enjoy reading your blog.

Hrin said...

Oh wow thanks anonymous! I'll try my best to update more often >.<

Anonymous said...

Hi Hrin, can put bigger picture about "content launch schedule", the image now abit small can't see clear.

Thanks

Hrin said...

Here's the original larger size:

http://flickr.com/photos/hrin/3201627302/sizes/o/

Unknown said...

hi hrin! we hope that you & the rest of the guys there can take a break once in a while. i was able to have a preview on what kind of stress you guys encounter on moments like this, so i feel for you. :)

and who might that secret admirer be? i wonder..

^_~

The G-man (Kasumatra Family) said...

aww man... i really hope the v3.0 comes out this thursday : /... i'm so psyched about it:D


Maybe i'll even pray to our pagan goda, and sacrifice a goat or two xD

Anonymous said...

o.o Wonder is it MPT... GG who might know xD

Hrin said...

HAHHAA no way is it MPT!

MPT is married with a baby! That would be like... so scandalous?!

Anonymous said...

So is v3.0 coming on time this thursday?

Hrin said...

Currently we are still on schedule. We have discovered a few major bugs which IMC is trying their best to quickly fix. We're really cutting it very close to the edge this time round, but we still hope to make it for this Thursday.

Anonymous said...

Thank u. Oh another thing, what will be the mode of delivery for cilent program this time round?