Granado Espada ANZ Blog - Ocenia the Wizard

Howdy Sydney,

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.

Hello,

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!

Hi players,

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!

Greetings Australia players!

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.

Simply say this is a competition where the player with highest level WINS!

But hold on, this is not as simple as that because there are tricks and strategies that you have to know to do well in this. I let you do your homework. You can discuss it here.

This is a very first-of-a-kind competition that is aimed at encouraging and fostering pro-social behavior among online gamers. You will be tested on your ability to work together and to increase your characters’ levels in the fastest, most efficient way while displaying good sportsmanship within a specified time. This meant that you have to cooperate, interact and work well as a squad, under intense online game conditions. Isn’t it great to know that you can help each other even though they are competitors. This is a WIN-WIN situation to receive bonus points while giving us something more than we expected. That is for you to practice pro-social qualities which it will be needed for the rest of our life. ^^ I bet you will never see a competition where you guys are supporting each other by shouting out common encouraging words from you or other contestant like “come on, let’s go, go, go!”, “no prob, get up and go!”, “good job!” etc.

Competition Mechanics

1. There will be two sessions “Preliminary” round (xx groups) and Final round (xx players from preliminary round). This will depends on the total of contestant on that day. So it may be 1 day for runner up and next day for final or it can be that we finish everything on first day.

2. Estimated timing

* Exact breakdown of timing is subjected to change *

Preliminary Round
1.5 hours is catered for this session:

1. 30 mins for briefing for the gamers
   1. Creation of IAHGames passport accounts
   2. How to create a Family and the preferred 3 characters
   3. How to skip tutorial quests
   4. Designated starting location
2. 45mins for the actual competition gameplay.
3. 15 mins for tabulation of scores.

Final Round
1 hour is catered for this session:

1. 45mins for the actual competition gameplay.
2. 15 mins for tabulation of scores.

Judging Criteria

1. Judges will count the levels of all the characters. 1 Level = 1 point.
2. The best 3 participants from Preliminary Round Groups with the highest number of points will be selected to go to the Final Round on the same day/following.
3. For the Final round, the participant with the highest number of points wins!
4. In the event of a draw or a tie, the participant with the highest experience leveling percentage followed by the highest stance leveling percentage will be declared as the winner of the competition.

Game Mechanics

1. Participants are allowed to use their existing accounts. However they are required to start a new family in the server.
2. Server used will be Pachelbel. This is a player kill disabled server. (can be changed to other servers) Please note that the actual server can be changed without prior notice and is at the sole discretion of the organizers.
3. Characters allowed are restricted to the basic classes: Fighter, Musketeer, Wizard, Scout & Elementalist.
4. No existing characters or RNPC (Recruitable Non-Player Character) can be used or created respectively..
5. Players are not allowed to interact with members of the public. (Trade & Squad are not allowed).
6. Players are encouraged to squad with fellow contestants to level up together as squad EXP is boosted by a certain % and the bonus is magnified with larger squads. .
7. Everyone is to use the desktop equipment that is provided to ensure fair play. You are only allowed to bring your own headsets. Other items such as keyboards, mouse and thumb-drives are strictly prohibited. Any violation of the rules will render the participant to be disqualified.