Blogging about your adventures in Hello Kitty Online is one of the many fun activities you can do in the game.  Did you know that you can post images of your farm and house directly into your SanrioTown blog?  Here’s how:

Enter your farm or your house.

Once you are inside your farm or house, open the mini-blog editor by pressing the “F9″ key on your keyboard.

Fill out the fields. After you are finished editing your blog post, click on the green check mark button.

Voila! You have now successfully posted a picture of your farm or house into your blog!

Go ahead!  Share your adventures in Hello Kitty Online with your family and friends through the SanrioTown blogs!

Kung Hei Fat Choi!  A very happy Chinese New Year to everyone!  May the Year of the Golden Ox be prosperous and bring good health and good fortune for you and your family and friends!

This year will be an exciting one for all of us at Hello Kitty Online!  We’ve been working hard on some really cool features that you are sure to enjoy!  There will be lots of awesome things in store for you when the game returns.  Stay tuned for more updates here at the official blog and watch out for exciting events at the HKO Event Blog.

Hi everyone! The very high number of simultaneous logins is currently causing us some problems with the server. Please note that we are doing everything we can to bring the server back online. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused, and we thank you for your patience.

The Hello Kitty Online Team

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Food For Friends was a little experiment we concocted as a new format for events held in MMORPGs.  We wanted to channel the in-game efforts of players into something real that would impact others in a positive way.  For those of you who missed it, the basic idea was to craft and a number of food items and hand them in to a GM. Sanrio Digital then made a donation to charity, the amount of which was determined by the total number of crafted food items submitted by players. As you can see this means that the event generated real world charity that was directly proportional to the efforts of the player base.

The event was a resounding success, with Sanrio Digital donating USD 12,000 to Unicef and the Asian Youth Orchestra! Keep in mind this is based on the Founders’ Beta, which was essentially a closed beta. We want charity to be an important part of HKO, so there will be other similar events in later releases of the game.

Media such as CNET, Allakhazam and Ten Ton Hamster wrote about the event, and the feedback we have been receiving has been very encouraging. Hopefully this exercise can stimulate a trend of a better sense of community responsibility. MMORPGs require a lot of time to play in the long run, and we think most players would be happy if some of the effort they invest in a game could also benefit the less fortunate.

Wow… it’s been an amazing month! People rushing to complete quests, the competitive relationships of the guilds, constant patching to improve the game, and the multiple events made for one heck of a month! But the best thing that this month brought us are the new friendships that we formed and priceless memories have been made from spending time with each other.

Founders’ Beta has been a real fun-filled experience for all of us and we’d like to thank all of the people who have participated in it and for the patience and dedicated support you have all given for the game. Without you, Founders’ Beta wouldn’t have been the success it has been.

Now, the wait begins for… Open Beta.

HOWEVER…

we will be having SOMETHING before Open Beta so it’d be awesome if you guys KEEP THE CLIENT!

We’ve received reports of some users having trouble with the HKO Installer (Download Manager). Top Cats are scrambling  to reproduce the problems reported by our users and come up with a fix. Please bear with us whilst they are busy in the labs.

In the meantime, please continue to use your favourite BitTorrent client to download the game via the torrent link.

Don’t fret if you haven’t used a BitTorrent client, one our users iheartbadz wrote this awesome tutorial which gets one up to speed very quickly.

We apologise for the issues with our installer and hope to come back to you with another build soon.

Aside from the Sanrio Characters and technical aspects of the game, there is one concept that we have been promoting as one of the game’s strongest points — the community aspect. Although we’ve seen a lot of it here and there in the game, during the latter part of the Closed Beta, something great happened in Hello Kitty Online.

The Sailor Scouts Guild had been up for a while in Closed Beta, but during those last parts, this guild showed us exactly the kind of community that we were going for in the game. The guild of 12 rose to a mighty 40 in a day. But it wasn’t for fame or popularity, it was for the sake of helping others.

You can read the story of how they got so big, and why that event was so great, by visiting the guild blog maintained by sailoriastar. Don’t forget to drop them a note!

Three cheers for the Sailor Scouts Guild, and we look forward to seeing you all in Open Beta!

Hello everybody! It is I, GM - Neverender, your special guest writer for the HKO official blog. Hmmm, hmmm you might be thinking that something special is afoot that it requires the abilities of a special writer… well… you’re right!

Question is, how special?

Hrmm, hrmm…

*teaser moment*

You might remember a previous post where mouth-watering images of upcoming pets (for OB), farm and avatar designs were shown. Yes, yes I know they’re amazing. This time, how about I show you guys 3D versions?

Now, would that be something you might be interested in?

I’ll take your giddy silence as a resounding yes.

Cute, cute chicken and mouse pets! Amazing ainnit? hahaha

THIS one, we’re especially proud of… it’s BIG, it’s AWESOME and it’s going to be YOUR pet. Rawr!

There you have it. We here at HKO are really, really, REALLY excited for the upcoming Open Beta and so should you! Well, we know you are! Thank you so much for the support. Hope this’ll sate your appetites until the next update

Dear Closed Beta Testers. Some testers have raised concerns regarding the type of Hello Kitty Online package they received. A small number of you have received special Closed Beta packages that looked different and contained more items than the standard package. We would like to clear up this issue and apologize for any misunderstanding.

Those who have received the special package are our first Closed Beta testers, who were selected before we launched the Dream Studio contest to participate in the Hello Kitty Online Closed Beta. It quickly became obvious that there was a lot of enthusiasm for HKO, and we decided to increase our quota of beta testers. That is why we held the Dream Studio video contest, to give more fans an option to participate.

Although we could have simply delivered HKO via download like other MMORPGs, we decided that we wanted you to own something special, and thus we created a package that includes a game case, game disk, user manual, and video tutorial. This standard package, which almost all testers received, may be viewed here. We feel that this is an attractive bundle for a game still in closed beta testing.

In addition to the standard package, 80 pre-selected testers were sent special collectible boxed versions of the game. These 80 testers are the original beta testers, selected ahead of time based on their relationships to Sanrio and other criteria.

Unfortunately we only had a limited quantity of HKO boxed editions, as they are quite costly and time consuming to assemble. If interest is sufficient, we will consider producing more boxed editions for those interested in purchasing them, and/or as competition prizes. Please let us know what you think!

Once again, we are very grateful to our beta testers and apologize for any misunderstanding.

Regards,
GM Abby

Hi everyone! Thank you for the positive feedback regarding the packages, and we hope you appreciate them as our gifts to you. Although for those who have emailed and posted regarding their concerns, please know that your messages do not go unnoticed!

As there are some factors in shipping that are beyond our control, we hope you could all bear with these unforeseen circumstances. Rest assured that we want all our Closed Beta testers to experience the game and get the guides in our packages, so please give it until Thursday (24 April 2008). If you have not yet received the packages by then, we will give you instructions on how to get the game via FTP access.

For those who are having installation problems, just let us know and we will contact you as soon as possible.

Thanks for your understanding and patience.

Warm regards,
GM Abby
HKO Community Manager