To getting to see what the new and improved HKO is like! Thanks to GM Neverender and his willingness to risk it all for us, we can see a few awesome screenshots from HKO! I am sure glad, because it looks SO COOL!

The wonderful ripplecloud has put together a great list of quick links for us in her blog. Thanks so much ripplecloud!

I changed the look of the blog to the new hello kitty online blog style! I think it was very fitting for us Be sure to check out the cool new blog styles for your own blog!

As always, feel free to email me with questions, or come hang out with us in the forums! It’s a great place to introduce yourself, and make some new friends, as well as keep in touch with old friends.

So those of you who join us on the message board probably already know this, but not everyone checks the guild forum, so I will post this here:

“Hi there! Just re-posting the interview with Ali Aslanbaigi, GM Supervisor for Hello Kitty Online:

MMOsite: Is there any sort of rough schedule for when open beta and commercial launch will be available for players? Will there be a character wipe at the end of the beta test?

Ali Aslanbaigi: For both Europe and North America,we plan to have another Closed Beta for Q3 2008. After that,Open Beta will grace both continents during Q4 and commercial launch will be somewhere around the end of Q4 and the beginning of Q1 of 2009. As for the English speaking Asian regions,Open Beta will begin in 2009 and the commercial launch will follow very,very soon after.  Lots and lots of work to be done until then,but for now,just keep your web eyes peeled.

You won’t be able to play the game since Hello Kitty Online is still unavailable or down. Please wait for our official announcement on the exact schedules and availability of the game’s installer. Thanks and I hope this clears everything up.”

Thank you Tom for putting that up there for us!

Another note, a lot of people ask similar questions on the forum about the guild, and how to join, so I thought I would make a place that we can link to in order for them to have a good answer. Please refer all questions by new people who ask about joining the guild to this post! The text below should be of some help.

“Welcome to the guild for all who are interested in joining! To join the guild, you don’t have to have played closed beta, you can just hang out with us here and on the blog, and then meet up with us in game in the next closed or open beta (we aren’t sure yet which one they are letting us into next yet) to join it “officially”. Remember you can always quit the guild you are in and join a new one if you find that one does not suit you.
The purpose of the guilds in hello kitty online are to promote friendship, help each other with projects (such as house building), and to be able to use the guild chat feature and many other reasons. In our guild we have mini games and projects just for us in game! Remember that we are also great friends with people from the other guilds, and we help each other out whenever we can.
If you would like your new guild friends to visit your blog, or be able to email you, please leave your email/blog address in a comment to me, either here or on the blog.  My email address is sailoriastar@hellokitty.com. Please feel free to email at any time with questions or concerns that you may have! ”

So I know this will be of interest to everyone (especially those of you who don’t check the forums) but we found out last week that HKO open beta will not be released until Q3. That means around September for those of us who don’t speak quarter language I know we are a bit disappointed, but it is for good reason! They are making the final improvements and working out the bugs to make sure we have the best gaming experience possible. No more “Help! GM I’m stuck in a tree!” xD

On to the next subject: Our guild name. Some of us were kind of worried that someone would get the same awesome idea to name their guild the Sailor Scouts as well. But never you worry! I talked to our dear and beloved Tadakatsu and he assures me that he will be in the game during the first few seconds of OB and he will create the guild and then hand it right over. He will continue to be a member as well! Yay Tada!

As for those of you wishing to be added to the blog roll, please email me or post a comment here or in the forum letting me know your name and blog address and I will get you a button made as soon as possible, probably within the next week.

I know we have acquired a few new members in the last few weeks, please introduce yourselves and let us know who you are! We love getting to know new people and making new friends! We look forward to playing with you in open beta.

I would also like to congratulate the most amazing ripplecloud on winning the grand prize for the HKO video challenge! Congratulations are in order for shesroyaltee as well, who won the consolation prize! You girls make us so proud!

So the Hello kitty blog team (I’m not sure of their “official” name) decided that we are so fantastic that we should be featured in the Hello kitty news and blog! The article talks about the aspects of community in the game, and how we helped each other out in CB. It is a very well done article, so a huge thank you to whoever wrote it!

I completely agree that the friendship and community aspect is unique to HKO, and I am so thankful to have met and spent time with every one of you! I can’t wait until open beta, because I am sure we can expect much of the same kindness, friendship and fun to be a part of our experience.

Exciting stuff! First of all, thanks to rip again for getting these links together for us! Here are the HKO contest videos from our awesome guild members. Be sure and show them lots of support!

Dawn LaRee

shesroyaltee

velandra

ripplecloud 

Good luck you guys!

On another exciting note, we now have our very own spiffy blog roll buttons! Just check out the blog roll in the Sailor Scouts guild blog to see them. Feel free to take them to add to your own blog roll as well. I am sorry that they took so long, but I think they turned out pretty good! Remember if you are a guild member and you want us to link you in our blogroll, be sure to leave me a comment here or email me (sailoriastar@hellokitty.com).

Don’t forget to drop by the forums once in a while and say hi to us over there! You can usually find a few of us just hanging out in the guild thread 

Hi Guildees,

A couple of guild members have started blogging but
are unsure how to do certain things on their blogs. So we’ve compiled
some useful links into this page for you. Do check them out and we
hope they will be helpful!

Read more »

A huge thanks to ripplecloud, who put this list together for me

If you have a blog and you don’t see it listed here, please be sure to leave a comment and I will add it right away.

MidNiteEyes

BBE’s closed beta test blog

Dawn LaRee

Kaioh75

BBE aka webfashion

ripplecloud

Sailor Scouts

brendakins

shesroyaltee

Kaioh75

Kupotown

Gokuangel

Also, I am out of screen shots to post with the entries now, so if you have any you would like to see featured here, please email them to me!

First I would like to say a big huge congratulations to ripplecloud for being one of the bloggers of month! Her blog is featured in the sanrio town June newsletter! Your blog is awesome ripplecloud yay!! For anyone who doesn’t get the newsletter, you can find her blog here:

http://blog.sanriotown.com/ripplecloud:hellokitty.com

On to another note. I would like to open up the option of having guest writers to this blog. I think it would be really cool if anyone who has news or stories or pictures to share would do so here. You would just have to submit your article to me through an email, and I will post it here, giving you credit for the article. Does this sound like something you may be interested in? Let me know guys!

I would like to thanks brendakins for submitting todays screen cap. It is of the famous marubadtz farm, which in a way, can be credited for the explosion of the Sailor Scouts guild! It just shows us that what we do can have a huge impact on others, even if we don’t expect it to. I’m glad Erin took that bit of extra time to make the farm look so nice!

Hey everyone, we now have our own forum thread! Check it here:

Sailor Scouts Guild thread

Its a more unrestricted way to interact with everyone.  So check it out! The blogs are awesome for info and updates, but not really so good for interaction.

Also, I would like to mention that if you are interested in letting people know your blog address, leave it here and I will make a blog address post.

Thanks to everyone for keeping up with this blog, and thanks to Tadakatsu for letting me have this screen shot! I forgot to get one of this, but it is all of us posing with Tada before he left (and made us all cry) on the last day.

Speaking of Tada, make sure to check out Tadakatsu’s lounge in the forums as well!

So a few people from the guild have asked what happened that last night after they had signed off. How did the Sailor Scouts go from 12 members to 40+ in just a few short hours? Well here is the story, which I believe captures the essence of the Sailor Scouts guild and what we have been about since the beginning.

After we had gotten all the houses built for everyone our guild, no one else was signed on from the guild who needed any help. Tada and Cal had signed off for the night, so I was looking for something to do. Sonik was the only other guild member signed on, and I asked him what he was doing. He said he was just going for a walk. Well, earlier that night brendakins had sent me into marubadtz’s farm to see how awesome it was. I decided to take a tour of all the farms to see if anyone else had done cool stuff with their gardens. For the most part, all of the farms were empty. Then around the 5th farm I stepped into, I noticed debbie working all by herself. She only had about 1000 left to go on her house and I felt like I should help her, as I wasn’t really doing anything else. She mentioned that she was really hungry and her bf was waiting for her so that they could eat dinner. I decided I should go out and ask if anyone else would like to help us. GM - Hak was the only one who answered my cry for help. GM - Hak, debbie, sonik and I finished up her house in no time! GM - Hak and debbie of course had to join the Sailor Scouts guild so that we could all work together to help. I decided that maybe I should check the other farms, because debbie may not be the only one in this predicament. I checked a few more farms and I came upon BloneBlueEyes and ripplecloud working on BBE’s house. I asked if they wanted some help and they decided to accept! I let GM - Hak know what I was up to, and soon he had found 3 more people who needed help as well. GM - Hak then went on a recruiting spree and we all worked together to get as many houses built in those last few hours as possible! You guys were all so amazing and helpful and we appreciate all of your hard work. It was so wonderful and moving to see the power of teamwork and caring in action. You are all worthy of calling yourselves Sailor Scouts!