HKO is gone.

I was there to hear Neverender’s countdown, and I was sort of dreading the end (you know the strange, excited, butterfly feeling, with a bit of sadness?….)

I felt so sad when the ‘Disconnected from server’ message came up, but as I could still see and hear everything on the screen, I kept it there for a good 5 minutes or something before I actually clicked OK. I wanted one last long look at it all (….do you think I’m too sappy at all?)

Well, it’s gone, for now at least. Our weeks will be without it.

I’m going to miss it, and I feel a hint of sadness and pity. I suppose I was actually really quite fond of that game…

So thank you ! for letting me be part of the Founder’s Beta. I enjoyed it lots x) I wish though, that I had been more social (cuRse this shyness) and made more close friends. I wish I had been an active member of a guild, I want to join one when Open Beta starts. I was part of Is AWESOME!!! for a time, thanks to Domo’s invite, but I only felt vaguely comfortable talking in the guild chat once. I guess I didn’t feel as though I fitted. I hope that next time I can find a guild where I feel at home. Oh also, I felt useless for the event. I suddenly feel that low level 11 is no good for a guild in events such as Food for Friends, and I hadn’t even started the quests in London, let alone farming. But I feel like I missed out, guildwise. Guilds are the usual way of making friends and I didn’t get to be a part of that guild-closeness thing. It’s a shame.

But I enjoyed the quests and the characters and the overall cuteness, so I will be one of the first in line for Open Beta. And I plan to put more dedication into the game next time (bearing in mind that I have real life, too).

So, for those of you sticking around on SanrioTown, see you around… for those who are off until OP, see you there.

=]

Well, it’s been almost an hour since I was disconnected from HKO. I was laying on my bed, talking on the phone, when I saw a message on my screen. After clicking OK and being sent back to the start page, I saw the time and realised ‘the game has ended!!’…. so I quickly went onto the forums and I saw that everybody’s server was down, and the game could very well be over, lots of others thought so too.

But then again, other people expected the game to end not Friday night, but Saturday night. …..

Now here’s where it gets confusing!.. the news says it officialy closes NOVEMBER 8TH AT MIDNIGHT EST. Now, midnight is the start of a new day. Which means that Friday night should be the closing date, at midnight, end of the 7th, start of the 8th. That is what I had expected. Lots of people thought so too. Yet, lots of people also thought that November 8th at midnight EST meant Saturday night… but I couldn’t see how that could be, because that would make it really November 9 ….

The game came back up after 30 or 40 minutes or so of cries and panic and tears, to my astonishment.

But, I suppose, they did tell us the correct time and date in a clearer way… it just wasn’t so easy to find as the confusing date and time, or at least they contradicted eachother! :  

  ‘As the game winds down and officially closes at midnight EST on November 8, 2008‘ …….

‘Founders’ Beta will end on November 8, 2008 at 23:59 (midnight) Eastern Standard Time.’

  confused? we all were….. *rolls eyes*.

see you in the (true) last day of the game!!

End Of (This) Road

HKO Founder’s Beta is closing, at least until December, as far as I’ve heard.

I play the game most days and I’m gonna miss it, so I hope it isn’t gone for long.

I am still unsure about things though: I’ve read that we will all have our characters that we have now when the game fully launches, though with or without our inventory items and money so far unknown. I hope we won’t have to re-do any quests, and I really don’t want to start all over from the beginning. So I hope we can start where we left off.

I am, as far as I know, almost finished with Florapolis. I hope to start in London when the game returns. I’m going out level 11. I’m guildless, I’d like to join a guild when the game is back, and after a little more work, participate in the events with my guild.

I love this game xP xD

What will I do to fill my time without it ?..