You might have seen my sad blogging earlier today. Well, no more sad faces for me, I’m all excited now! GM Bacon posted a thread in the Forum with the exact time for the opening of HKO.

“Sanrio Land will be opening its doors for you on October 8, 2008 at exactly 22:00 US Eastern Standard Time (Oct 9 - 10:00 GMT +8).”

Which mean 4am on thursday my time. Since I don’t work during the night and also don’t work during thursday, I’ll be there when the doors open up! I’m so excited *starts with my bouncing up and down again*

The download is taking some time for me though. I’m glad I have my chat room. Currently chatting to Bellkana (bellkana@hellokitty.com) and BunnyWinx. We’re having a lot of fun, so if you want something to do while you download, come in and join us. BunnyWinx also made sure I wasn’t the last one to see the login screen with her pretty screenies, thanks!
Later on, Bellkana had to go, but we were soon joined by Misty. I hope you got your download completed alright, Misty.

For those who have trouble downloading, radman9000 on the forum posted some good instructions in GM Bacon’s thread about the download. They were easy enough for me, and I’m really dumb around computers.

“what you need to do is download a torrent downloading program. HKO reccomends uTorrent. follow the link here and install uTorrent. it shouldnt be a large download or installation. there are other torrent downloading programs but they are all essentially the same so uTorrent will get the job done.

after installing uTorrent, download the HKO torrent file and open it with uTorrent and your download should begin.”

I woke up today and went directly to the HKO Download page. Yes, you are now able to download the client. Yayie! (for you)

To me, this means two things…
1. Since I need to get to work I won’t be able to download the client until I get back home in about 10 hours. Since I don’t know how long the download will take me, I can’t start it now, since I need to go soon. I’ll probably be the last who gets to see the login screen.
2. HKO will probably not, since this didn’t happen with the download, open the game to play directly when it’s october 8th in Japan (6pm oct 7th my time). Which means, once again my job will make sure I won’t get to play until about 10 hours after everyone else has started playing.

I really would have loved if they did open up the game 12am october 8th in Japan. Then I could play for a couple of hours before I needed to get to sleep. I wouldn’t miss the grand opening and the first hours of people landing in the Flower Kingdom.

I’m sad now.

Well, OK, not totally sad. I am still a Founder and I will probably get to be in some events ingame still. So, see you ingame in just a couple of days. Oh, I really like saying that.