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Prob­a­bly due to com­plains about how ran­dom the slot game was in choos­ing closed beta testers for Tar­taros Online, MK-Style announced that extra 2500 invi­ta­tions will be up for grab start­ing Nov. 30th.  The impor­tant part is this:

[当選発表]
厳正なる抽選をおこない、参加当選者を決定いたします。

I think my Japan­ese is too crap to under­stand what it means.  We’ll see on the 30th :3

PS: Since I don’t know how many of the 5000*3 accounts will actu­ally be on closed beta, the extra 2500 might make it more interesting.

PPS: Thanks to a cer­tain kind-hearted 2ch-er who gave me an invi­ta­tion code!  Jさん有難う御座いました！

Though it was my plan to post JP Tar­taros updates with more play log on Tar­taros TW server, I had the time not… yet this can’t wait.

As of this moment (and until Dec. 06), Tar­taros Online JP server is now accept­ing 5000 closed beta posi­tions.
Half of a day after has past and it seems 5000 accounts are all gone now… GG

How­ever, don’t get your hopes up too high.  The closed beta only lasts 5 days: Dec 10th to Dec 14; an inter­est­ing con­trast to the beta’s sign-up period, which is 11 days (Nov 25 to Dec 06).  Also, the most antic­i­pated JP server exclu­sive content–localized voice overs–will not be avail­able for closed beta.

Then of course, there will be perks… such as:

• 1000 out of the “cho­sen” ones will be rewarded 500 mk-style points
• Leave your name in the closed beta archive video
• A fan­site kit with more content
• Abil­ity to invite two other friends for the Closed Beta test

This sounds pretty lucra­tive to me… espe­cially there’s the chance to mark my name in a video that has his­tor­i­cal value, lol.  Invit­ing two friends is some­thing nice to do… how­ever the total num­ber of testers will be 15k max… –_– 15k accounts for 4 days of play­ing?  or is it included in the 5000 beta accounts?  Con­fused ._.

But to think about all those before actu­ally secure a beta account for one­self is futile… and trust me, the pro­ce­dure isn’t quite sim­ple as you might think.

Tell me this isn’t some wacky way of  MK-style try­ing to test their web server’s capac­ity.  After you fail the mini game (which you will, and if you didn’t, please pray for the voice overs to be released or extend closed beta time because you, a per­son with exces­sive luck, should be com­mu­nist and share it!), you can retry only after 3 min­utes of wait­ing –_-  Ignore the places where it says the wait­ing time is 5 min­utes… is the incon­sis­tency some­thing intentional?

Assume the game is fair and pure chance, you have 1/8^3=1/512=0.195% chance of win­ning.  So, keep play­ing for 512*3 = 1536 min­utes = about 25.6 hours, and if the God of Sta­tis­tics loves you, you might have a chance to win.   Since I started writ­ing this post I’ve been failed about 10 times now; that leads me to think the game might indeed be pure chance… and if that is really so, I doubt it’s pos­si­ble for me to get in the closed beta after all, lol.

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As I sus­pected, the game isn’t fair.  The chance to get Nagi in first two slots is unnat­u­ally high, and to get her in the last slot is very low.  Here’s some tip: open up your favorite browser and open up a bunch of tabs to the minigame page where are about to slick “Start Game”.  The rea­son it works: your IP is logged after you hit the “Start Game” button, but your IP is only checked when you send out your email address.  So every three min­utes you can play the stu­pid mini game for all the tabs/windows you have.  If you fail, don’t go back, just leave the win­dow be and refresh it after 3 minutes.

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Tai­wan Server: http://ttr.lager.com.tw/index/index

Great news.  I man­age to have Lager to man­u­ally reg­is­ter an account for me so I can bypass their stu­pid phone acti­va­tion process >.< though, at the price of show­ing them my Driver’s License.  So now I have some­thing to do before JP server becomes a real­ity :3  But before I go into details with my game­play on the Tai­wan server, more news are to bring~

Firs, MK-Style has updated the game’s web­site.  The char­ac­ter intros now each has a voice clip for pre­view­ing pur­pose.  Most voices matches the feel­ing from the orig­i­nal Korean voice overs… save Soma and Nagi (or Gren­ite, since that’s her name on all other servers).  In the Korean ver­sion, Soma is voiced by a female per­son… but I’d say Shimono’s voice and Soma is not a bad combo.  On the other hand, Nagi, or Gren­ite, whichever name you pre­fer, seem to have a … change of per­son­al­ity(?) with her Japan­ese voice. (It’s a mys­tery to me why her name has to be changed orz)  To put it frankly, the new voice sounds a bit stu­pid com­pare to the orig­i­nal voice of her.

u1game, ser­vice provider of Tar­taros Online for Hong Kong and Macao area, has delayed closed beta launch to Nov. 26th.  It seems every­one is now jump­ing on this game except main­land China and… North Amer­ica… no? Q.Q

Also, I uploaded Tar­taros’ BGM: http://www.rayfile.com/en/files/54df4f4a-d5fc-11de-9fc3-0014221b798a/ca83a752/
The link requires Ray­File client, which has an Eng­lish ver­sion I believe.

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Teaser HP: http://ta-online.jp/teaser/

Hur­ray for MK-Style being so fast!  It’s only been four months since they announced the game has been lisenced to them, and now closed beta testers are being care­fully recruited!  Unfor­tu­nately, for now at least, MK-Style are recruit­ing only who are “seri­ous” about “test­ing”, such as, those who will be run­ning (or par­tic­i­pat­ing?) fansite/blog.

More infor­ma­tion about this game can be found on Steparu’s not-so-secret loli-harem here.  Right now he’s been labeled MIA and there has been rumors that the man has been kid­napped by loli, or the other way around, etc.  He said he will play on  Tar­taros’ JP server… hope­fully he’ll mira­cally reap­pear some­day soom and bring us more cov­er­age, that is, if he can some­how get into closed beta xD

Some­thing to look for in Tar­taros Online JP ver­sion… Per­son­ally, of course, it will be in a lan­guage that is rel­a­tively com­pre­hen­si­ble, lol.  Sec­ond, the voice act­ing will be local­ized accord­ing to the following…

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