To find out what’s new on Version 3.0, download the PDF link below.
http://www.onlinegamez.com.au/files/pdfs/Version3.pdf

There is so much Granado Espada has to offer. So keep playing the game and rip the benefits.

Join the brand new world on the launch date. Don’t be afraid other characters, as they all will start from level 0.

Enjoy 2 x Experience Rate (100% extra) for the first 30 days of the opening.
“Now you can show your friend what you have been playing”

You can get your friends to join the server together and show them what you have been playing.

The new price for GE70000 GPoints card will become AUD $61.00. It is effective immediately.

Should the AUD’s rate drop in the future, OnlineGamez will review the price again.

Let us welcome a new cyber cafe in Sydney. I am so excited with this new opening of Ocenia CyberCafe. This simple yet modern-styled cybercafe is named after me. ^^ This cyber cafe is located in Waterloo, Sydney. I hope that it will become a meeting point for OnlineGamez gamers to meet, connect and participate in exciting events. All stations are installed with Granado Espada (CyberCafe Buff is here too), Gunbound, and some other popular game in Australia. So, drop by in a group play the award-winning games Granado Espada with me or simply surf the internet.

Early Bird Special - Membership Discount
(till 31th August 2008)
Be one of the first to sign up for an Ocenia CyberCafe Membership and receive Early Bird benefits.
- Membership Fee Waived.
- 1 hour free game time.
*Free 1 hour applies to gaming only. Normal charges apply for internet surfing.

Head down to the Ocenia CyberCafe get your membership, and enjoy your favorite Granado Espada with other gamers.

For locations information, click here.

This will be my last field report for CyberCafe Buff Launch and Levelution Competition. I would like to congratulate to all those who signed up during the events. Welcome to Granado Espada! Feel free to add us in your Friend List for some in-game help (you can find us here).

Some of you asked me why I play the game? I believe you may not get it at the first time when I said Granado Espada is a must play game. But when you read this blog by now, you will understand better. Just like I told you even if you are not a RPG players, never play an online game before, or millions other reasons, at the end you’ll love GE. Because there is no other online game (and dont forget it’s absolutely FREE game too) can give you such a flexibility and so many great functionality - Multiple Character Control - Recruitable Non-Players Characters - extreme Artificial Intelligence.

This last event gave me all excitements feelings for all the processes. The main reason for that is because I can try V2.6 Sneak Preview. Let’s check the program list in Sydney first. ^^

Program list 28-29 June 2008

About V2.6 The Requiem Sneak Preview


In Sydney, we had the chance to add in the V2.6 Sneak Preview in our Program List. I was so excited because I can try it myself (even though I am not familiar with all terms in the high level accounts), but for sure Bai Hu has stolen my heart. When I tried to complete his quest, I had a chance to view the sparring between him and Gracielo (OMG, Bai Hu will be my favourite characters too besides Gracielo) ^^ One of his skill is too amazing (his last finishing blow can reaches up to 100,000 hit rate). I am not kidding. I am very sure about the hit rate unless it’s time for me to get a new pair of glasses. >.< Can’t wait to level up my main characters in Vivaldi and get into the new map and quests. I have to hurry since it will be released in next month. Btw, good news for you who loves to raid. In these new maps, I believe you can do more raiding because these monsters are very tough (or maybe I’m still not use with the high level characters yet since my current highest characters are only level 70) T T

Besides browsing around in the new map and try to hit some monsters, it is really exciting to know that we’re going to have +9 Imperverium. After V2.6 released, I believe soon there will be more shining weapons roaming around in the city.
Btw, [CM]Veya compiled a list of new stances in her blog. Click here to view it.

About the Competition

The competition in Sydney is more strict and harder. The generic rules still apply but more restrictions have been added to ensure everybody have fair start. It is like the one in Brisbane, no Scout is allowed. In addition of that, they are not allowed to use any other materials besides their new characters in a new server. Despite to all of those additional restrictions, we have many “just sign up” contestant on the day. It was very challenging to teach them very briefly but yet most of them manage to score very well. Let’s see the winner list:

Winners of Levelution

Winner 1; Using a combination of Fighter + Duo Elementalist, he secured his 1st prize with all characters level 15. This GE supporter came to the all days and volunteered in guiding the new players. He’s the master in the game. You’re a champ bro.

Winner 2: This young lad is GE 2nd day player and he’s already mastered the basic of the game. He came back on 2nd day to join this contest and he is proving himself as the next generation of GE expert. His winning characters are at level 13,13,14. Well done!

Winner 3: Big applause to this first timer. He just got briefed and played for less than half an hour then joined this contest. Well, I think he has natural talent in playing RPG game and grasped all other thing while competing with other players. He secured his 3rd place not very far behind from the 2nd winner. All his character are level 13. PS. He even went back to city and do all the leg work between maps (he didn’t know he can use his wrap scroll to go back that place). ><

Actually we almost have another girl winner. Her leveling result is very close to 3rd winner, The difference is only on the experience percentage. That’s ok girl. There’s always another chance. ^^ Anyway, the most important is all of them are having fun and all of them bring back complimentary gift. This time I manage to get them to take group picture with the goodies bag.

Acknowledgement

Final words for you, Sydney event’s participants, thank you for your participation and I hope to see you again soon in-game. We will try our best to give you better event in the future. Last but not least, let’s us gives credit for our local distributor OnlineGamez Australia who is preparing and managing this event with the supports and contributions from IAHGames, DJavu CyberCafe, CheapCard.com.au and Next Media - without them there will be never a Granado Espada Real Life Event in Australia.

Click here to view all photos from the event.

Cheers!

Finally I can touch my blog again (even though I am not a really blogger ><). But still I can’t wait to release this field report about what happening on Brisbane’s RLE. Some of you must be waiting about this. This event is much more challenging than Melbourne one but of course we’re getting better. We have to admit that it’s not really close to a perfect event like WCG since this is more like gathering around with some players, attracting new players and have some fun all day and more fun during the contest. By the way, I will cut the intro and move directly into the highlights of the day.

Program List (21-22 June 2008)

On Saturday, 21st June 2008, we had the Leticia Booth set up a bit later than Melbourne’s event. At first, we were a bit relaxed as we thought it will be a quite morning like what happened in Melbourne. But, surprisingly not long after we finished setting up the booth, banners and posters, there was a player from Malaysia - he flew from Kuala Lumpur to participate our event. Can you imagine that? LOL… Actually this lucky lad is in Brisbane for a month for work and when he read about this event, he knew he has to come and be part of it. He is one of the first guys who experienced the CyberCafe Buff in the CyberCafe.
Thanks H! Our days were merrier with your accompany. I hope you had fun together with the Australian players at our small event.

I have to admit that it is surprisingly challenging to get other genre players to even try Granado Espada. I think some players who came on that day already have their own agenda or engagements so when we offered them free hour to try GE they were very reluctant and only some of them kindly say they will try it later. I really hope that they try it, since they can  make use of the CybeCafe Buff, anyway there is nothing I can do if they do not try, they will never know the difference  >< I bet it is just like our daily life, we have our ups and downs in a day. I consider that as our down point and of course we had our up point too. That is when we managed to run “Top Speed” Alpha Test smoothly without any problems. For one to two hours, we had fun with this alpha test. We gathered up around 10 people to try the game and had a car racing. It reminded me to watch “Speed Racer” in the cinema. Thanks to IAHGames who provided us the test accounts. TopSpeed is such as cute, relaxing and fun online car racing game. But have to warn you, it is very addictive. You may want to keep trying until you win ^^. We were there till 7 pm, and we have a champion for “TopSpeed” test who is a young handsome hardcore gamer and he is working at our host cybercafé. He played almost all PC games and what I envy the most is he has a collection of costumes in Granado Espada and he’s one of our ANZ vis-lionner that I know so far. I am thinking maybe we should put up a hall of fame for local players achievements in different categories: Richest player, most popular GE Family, etc. Anyway, let us discuss it again in the future. Psst… that night I am pretty sure that I was dreaming about having all those costumes and characters in all my servers. ^^

About the Competition

On Sunday morning, we had few others new players who came for the trials. GE has beautiful graphics and some of them just came because of the banner that we displayed at the main door. Well, time flies very fast and not long after that we have to get ready for levelution competition. But hold on, there was a problem. At the time when we should ready to start the briefing, we only had a quarter of registered participants turned up. So pre-competition was a bit tense, we had to ring up all other the participants who have not showed up. Well, this was another down point in the day. At the end, we started the competition about an hour later than schedule. Every minute was ticking slower than usual during the waiting. ^^* Luckily the rest of the day is getting much better. In Brisbane, we also have 50% - 50% of existing players and new players. I can see that some of the players were truly preparing themselves in advance. As results, we have 1st winner with level 18, 2nd winner with level 17 and 3rd winner with level 15. We had a funny story from our 3rd winner. She got “PK”ed during the competition. LOL… but she still can win the game. She’s so cool. Btw, have I mentioned I am so thrilled to finally meet other female players? I finally met female players in Brisbane.

Winners of Levelution

1st prize winner

2nd prize winner

3rd prize winner

Acknowledgement
Final words for you, Brisbane event’s participants, thank you for your participations in this event and I understand there are lots of rooms for improvement. We will try our best to give you better event in the future. Personally I hope to can meet you all again in-game soon. The last event will be in Sydney, 28 June 2008 – Sunday, 29 June 2008. Spread the news to your Sydney friends and also remind them to bring one or two friends along because we still have lots of freebies to give out. ^^

Let’s also gives credit for our local distributor OnlineGamez Australia who is preparing and managing this event with the supports and contributions from IAHGames, IPM CyberCafe, CheapCard.com.au and Next Media - without them there will be never a Granado Espada Real Life Event in Australia.

Click here to view all photos from the event.

Cheers!

Are you waiting for my news about last weekend event? Well, simply say whoever asked me how was my weekend, I would say my last weekend was FUN-TASTIC. I was thrilled to be able to meet other players in real life (Yes yes.. you are right. They asked me why I seldom go online now…. So I have to spent my first few minutes doing the explanation session to gain their understanding and forgiveness because I “afk” most of the time or just disappear TT).

Click here below link to view all photos from the event.

Join in the post-event discussion here.

Check out next event here.

Anyway, if you would like to know in detailed what happened last weekend and get brief information about what the next event looks like, you can view the Program List below.

The Program Guide for Melbourne Event (14-15 June 2008)

I have to confess I was confused and a little bit stressed at the beginning of my first day because it was very quite and “dead” (remind me of grave yard – yeah… I am exaggerating a little bit ^^). For your info, it was the beginning of exams week, I have to admit it has huge impact on this event but slowly everything was changed and it was getting more exciting because I met a GE expert (I can only admire his collection of characters and equipments while wondering when I can have those nice collection of achievements ><) and also some cute and enthusiastic players (new and existing). Not all of our planned activities can be done accordingly like The Top Speed Alpha Test has to be cancelled due to technical problems. Everything else was getting better on the next day; more and more new players interested to join and try the First FREE Hour. Even though, there was a change of plan for the Competition time, we have to move it from 11 am to 1 pm, everything else was adjusted accordingly and it run smoothly afterwards.

About the competition
This competition was filled with a very well-balanced combination of players, the first halves were new players (some of them just opened their account on the day too) and the other halves were existing players (all of them were excited to be able to meet up and socialize with other players in the real life). It begun with a short briefing by our cute amateur MC ^^ (he’s actually the Manager of OnlineGamez Australia, GE distributor in ANZ). After a while, finally all players can be gathered up in front of the Queen’s Gate and then they started their journey to level up most in 45 minutes.

While waiting for other players to join up to the meeting point.

Click here below link to view all photos from the event.

Join in the post-event discussion here.

Check out next event here.

Winners of Levelution
CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN TO ALL THE WINNERS OF LEVELUTION!

The 1st prize is won by a cute and quiet bloke from Monash University (I think he’s quiet – as I did not have chance to really talk to him after the event because now he’s busy studying for exam). Yup…. He loves GE and he know it is worth it to come and try his luck to get that shiny and exclusive Limited Edition Box plus. His effort was not wasted because his point was proven by winning himself the 1st prize and memory of lifetime. He secured his position with level 16 for all of his characters.

1st Prize

The 2nd prize is won by a young and handsome executive who admits hasn’t been playing GE for a while because of work, but still loves GE and looking forward to play again, especially after he got his very own My Bellem Box now. He’s only 1 level lower than 1st winner and secures his 2nd best position on level 15 for all his characters.

2nd Prize

The 3rd prize is won by a very bright lad who will be the future architect from University of Melbourne. I know this guy in-game few months back, he’s one of the pioneers in Australia community, together with a group of friends, they play actively in Cervantes server. He secured his position as 3rd winner on level 14 for all his characters.

3rd Prize

All other contestants did not do too bad, as they were not too far away between each other’s level, all of them in the range of level 10-13 for their characters. They did not go back empty-handed. All levelution participants were rewarded with an eco-friendly GE goodies bag each, consists of a game magazine, movie tickets and some in-game items.

Farewell
We wrapped up the event with Lucky Draw event. Another special hamper was prepared and more freebies were given out on this time for those who stays behind. Btw, I got the honor to draw prizes for these lucky people. A special hamper was given to a very lucky “just come” participant. He just tried GE for couple minutes when I called his name. And again our Master of Leveler, Mr. Simon, won another prize from the lucky draw. That is a double luckiness. ^^ Not long after that, after few casual chats (I managed to interview few prominent players – reports coming up) and photo takings, finally its times for farewell. I was sad to know it’s time to farewell when I just started to feel some bond created and fun. Fun time sure flies very fast. We’re wishing each other all the best and hoping to see each other again in the future. I am so happy to hear that they are looking forward for the next event. Me too guys.

Acknowledgment
Thank you guys for your participations in this event and we’re definitely going to have future event. I hope to see you again in-game soon. And now, I have to get ready for the next event which will be held in Brisbane on Saturday, 21 – Sunday, 22 June 2008. Remember to spread this news around and be there on the event. Also don’t forget to bring one or two friends too because we have lots of freebies to give out. ^^

Let’s also gives credit for our local distributor OnlineGamez Australia who is preparing and managing this event with the supports and contributions from IAHGames Pte Ltd., N2C CyberCafe, CheapCard.com.au and Next Media - without them there will be never a Granado Espada Real Life Event in Australia.

Click here below link to view all photos from the event.

Join in the post-event discussion here.

Check out next event here.

Last year, 2007, more than 100 countries reported thousands of activities, not only on the day itself, but often for an entire week, and sometimes even a whole month. More and more activities are organized and it involves with many sectors of society, including governments, non-governmental organizations, business, industry, inter-governmental organizations, civil society, media and schools.

So on this special day, I would like invite you, your friends, or even your families to celebrate this day together. Register your activity to save the earth and share it with GE commuity here.

I just finished reading my latest edition of PCPowerPlay (July - #153). I always love to read games magazine (I hope I can do that more often) T.T Works, researches, etc… Keep me away from it…. Anyway, I still can remember the times when I had to fight with my brother for who can read first. LOL… Well… obviously I was much tinier and weaker… so I played safe… I always try to get the mag first and hide it somewhere. LOL…

Btw, anybody realise that most games magazines always one month ahead in publishing? Yeah… I always amazed to realize that they can prepare so many topics in advance… GE-Styled Salutation (Wish I have a collection of screenshoots - I want to put it here now)! Well, what interested me the most is they have a review about us, Granado Espada. Quickly I can spot some editiorial errors here and there… It is said that the publisher is K2 Network, which is totally wrong as K2 network is only for the US side. Well…. errors happen all the time. Realising they make some mistakes, quickly we let Hrin know about it. This is her comment: “Please let them know when they want to write another review. I will accompany them and shows them the best parts and heaps stuff that you can get in GE.” ^^ Yup… how passionate is our lovely Regional Manager.

Guess what else can you spotted from the review and you think it’s not correct or disagree, discuss it here!

 Cheers!

ANZ Granado Espada is going to have a CyberCafe Buff Tour. We will be visiting three major cities and we’ll have heaps of fun activities together. Let’s gather up at the designated place guys! It is best time to meet up with cool people with cool game. Plus this is time to get your merchandise items for collection and freebies too. For me, I can’t wait to meet cool GE players ^.^

Events Details

Melbourne: 14th - 15th June
Brisbane: 21st - 22nd June
Sydney: 28th - 29th June

Click here to view detailed information of the events.

What is CyberCafe Buff?
What? You don’t know what is CyberCafe Buff?
Well.. That’s all right, because it is never been done locally yet, it is still very new in ANZ. CyberCafe Buff is a special feature that is installed remotely to your local cyber café to give you endless in-game boosters. We are talking buff for higher % experience, higher % stances and higher % drop rate. There will be many possibilities for the boosters. More about cybercafe buff click here. The main point of this event is to allow you to gather up, hang out with real-friends and have cool stuff together a.k.a socializing. ^^

What will you do on the D day?
There so many things to do on each venue. The activities between each venue may differ from each other but this is the outline:

• Levelution of Granado Espada, WIN Special Merchandise as the prizes. All contestants will get free in-game items. And it’s FREE to join. CyberCafe registration is open now. Go to registered cybercafé and register there now! Online registration is now open.
• Redemption for Claude Baudez’s Promo
• Get FREE in-game item for you and your non-GE friends (you will get manual book (expert) and your friend will earns GPoints GVC for starting)
• Pirate’s Treasure Box Surprise
• Real-life Leticia Booth
• Lots of Freebies

LEVELUTION PRIZES

• 1st Prize: GE Limited Signature Edition Box + GE Mug + GE Postcards + GE Door Knob + Movie Ticket + Poster (Worth over $100.00)
• 2nd Prize: My Bellem’s Box + GE Mug + GE Postcards + GE Door Knob + Movie Ticket + Poster (Worth over $50.00)
• 3rd Prize: My Bellem’s Box + Movie Ticket + Poster (Worth over $25.00)
• All registered contestants will receive free items.

Click here for details info Levelution Mechanics

Discuss this here!

Disclaimer: All informations may subjects to change. The actual mechanics, rules and regulations will be briefed on the actual day.