Onrpg: With Valentine’s Day just passed, what events did you hold during this holiday of love? How did they go?
Jiwoo Park: This Valentine’s Day we wanted to get some more interaction going in the player community between users that have been around since our very first Beta and the ones that just started last week. To this end we had a fairly large Gift Exchange Event where our mid to high level players were given a good amount of items that could only be used by the lower level players, and in exchange they got some rewards for giving them out through our Title competition that we have which ranks players for their in-game achievements. We also had some updates with our new Pet System, where players had to collect Valentine’s Day Love tokens to get access to special holiday themed pets which give their characters stat bonuses among a few others.
Onrpg: The Soulmate system is one of the factors that set asdastory apart from other MMOs. Could you explain this interesting system to us?
Jiwoo Park: The Soulmate system is an in-game function unique to asda story gold which allows players to pair up with the characters on another user’s account and gain various powers and benefits that they would otherwise not have access to. The most basic of which is that as they play alongside one another’s characters they gain greatly increased amounts of experience and all-around higher stats than they normally would. As they continue to play together they are able to gain Soulmate levels which unlock increasingly powerful skills including resurrection abilities, improved damage, very strong healing abilities, and even the power to summon and teleport to one another anywhere in the game. Soulmates are also able to have one of the pair log off when they need to go offline, and while the other is still able to play they can collect extra experience which may be split between them when the first player can log back in at a later time. Soulmates are able to level far faster than a single player, and have a great deal more versatility with their characters’ abilities while being a part of a Soulmate bond.
Onrpg: What makes the soul mate system of such importance to the game?
Jiwoo Park: The Soulmate system creates a number of beneficial effects not only to the game’s overall community atmosphere, but to individual players’ experiences with the game as well. Friends and guildmates are able to help each other progress through the content at a reasonably close pace, even if they have differing amounts of time available to play or experience with MMOs. A more experienced player as a Soulmate is able to mentor a less experienced player through the game using their unique shared abilities to assist them in combat and stay in closer communication than is usually possible with Clans and in-game friends. These more tightly knit pairings allows for the game’s community to form parties and Clans that know each other’s in-game strengths, weaknesses, and play-styles more fully than they would in most other games; providing a greater degree of strategy and teamwork to play as well.
Onrpg: What other events and activities do you regularly host in asda story gold?
Jiwoo Park: Our GMs host daily events in the game, and one of our players’ favorites is the GM Summon Event in which our staff will summon gigantic Boss-monsters to duke it out with the army of players that assemble against them for the rare items on their drop lists. In addition to their daily events, our GMs are more than happy to stop and answer any questions or address concerns that the average player may bring up as well. We also have frequent bonus event periods for general MMO staples such as drop rates and experience, on top of numerous holiday events and special contests we hold to give our players something back for their support. On Halloween and Thanksgiving for instance we had Frankenstein’s Monsters and Giant Turkeys roaming around the game that had some great prizes players could get by going after them. We’re always looking to create some fun new events that our players aren’t expecting, and to do collaborative or promotional events with MMO communities to show them how proud we are of our content and exactly what we have to offer for their time spent in-game.
