Massive Demand for Founders’ Beta Accounts

A special announcement for all aspiring Founders: the response to the call for the Hello Kitty Online Founders’ Beta has been overwhelming, and as of right now all Founders’ Beta slots have been filled. We would like to thank everyone who has shown such enthusiasm for Hello Kitty Online. We were so impressed by the response (and the impassioned pleas for acceptance) that we are working hard to increase the quota of Founders, so if you haven’t applied yet, do so now!

To those who have already applied, please keep checking your SanrioTown account. We will be notifying you this week to let you know if you are one of the Founders.

For those who have not yet applied, do not be discouraged! Follow these simple steps:

1. Sign up for an account at SanrioTown.com,
2. Using the SanrioTown account, send a BLANK email to hkofounder@hellokitty.com.

We want to see all of you in the upcoming Beta, and because of that, we will try our best to accommodate as many requests as we can. We can’t guarantee you will get in, but we are trying our best.

Once again, thank you for your continued support! Keep checking your SanrioTown emails and the HKO Official Blog for more updates!

Hello Kitty Online announces Founders’ Beta
Wanted: Founders for the world’s cutest MMORPG

Hong Kong – September 12, 2008: Sanrio Digital (www.sanriodigital.com) announced today that Hello Kitty Online will begin an exclusive Founders’ Beta on October 8, 2008. The Founders’ Beta will allow a limited number of users to play the official Hello Kitty MMORPG ahead of launch while receiving Founder benefits and participating in special in-game events.

Hello Kitty Online (www.hellokittyonline.com) is a free-to-play Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) based on Sanrio’s famous characters. The game transports players into the cute and cuddly world of Sanrio Land, where players will meet and interact with over a hundred Sanrio characters, including Hello Kitty, Badtz-Maru, Keroppi, Dear Daniel, My Melody, Pochacco, Cinnamoroll, and many others.

Hello Kitty Online boasts several new additions and improvements since the Closed Beta version, and the Founder’s Beta will feature a new game client with an improved interface, improved graphics and special effects, new monsters, new maps, new items, and the opening of London and Paris. The Founders’ Beta will also introduce gameplay changes such an improved skill system, new pet systems and team-play oriented enhancements.

20,000 Founder accounts will be issued on a first-come first-served basis. Players who wish to become Hello Kitty Online Founders are required to sign up on SanrioTown (www.SanrioTown.com) and use the SanrioTown email system to send a blank message to hkofounder@hellokitty.com. Only emails originating from SanrioTown will qualify.

Hello Kitty Online is fully integrated with SanrioTown (www.sanriotown.com) and offers several features of the popular community site, including:

- Fully developed email system available in-game

- Players can create, post and view blogs from inside the game

- Upload, share and view videos in-game

- Social networking options

- Multiplayer mini games with ranking system

The Hello Kitty MMORPG Game Trailer has received  top honors on Youtube, these are:

#6 - Most Discussed (This Month) - Gaming - Hong Kong

#23 - Most Discussed (All Time) - Gaming - Hong Kong

#2 - Most Viewed (This Month) - Gaming - Hong Kong

#16 - Most Viewed (All Time) - Gaming - Hong Kong

#4 - Top Favorited (This Month) - Gaming - Hong Kong

#8 - Top Favorited (All Time) - Gaming - Hong Kong

#11 - Top Rated (This Month) - Gaming - Hong Kong

#38 - Top Rated (All Time) - Gaming - Hong Kong

The video is embedded below

Some great as well as interesting tidbits of the recent trailer that went out.

Wow bow down to Hello Kitty

Enamoured with Keroppi

Hello Kitty Online Debut

Hello Kitty Online, the path to greatness

Hello Kitty Online coming soon!

Wow Killer emerges: HKO

To quote: Hello Kitty Online is a next-generation-MMO and will be state of the art when it launch. It features everything a MMO must have (exept superfluous PVP) and combines it with WEB 2.0 stuff. It will lure almost all girls (almost all Healers in this game) out of WoW and turning WoW into a sausage fest. And then many males who are playing WoW because of girlz will follow them. Raid-Guilds will shatter. Arena-scrubs are running out of n00bs to pwn.

The trailer is here: