The Demo Site

A few days of CBT and we finally have the player's side on this battle for customers between Perfect World and Zhu Xian Online. Going to the forums of both games, you'll see threads comparing one to the other.

Perfect World forumers say that in the PW forums, people defend PW, and in the Zhu Xian Forums, people defend Zhu Xian, which is whats naturally expected.

But hey, look at the polls on the Zhu Xian Boards.



The poll (and the thread) is closed now, probably because the results are not exactly what the forum/game owners hoped for.

Not only is that thread closed. The Forum Moderators are locking every thread where Zhu Xian is compared to other games, most of the time Perfect World. See, thats what happens when the Mods and the GMs and the CMs dont know how to speak a language flawlessly. The gamers who can talk fluently get discouraged from joining. And in the end, you have no one to defend your product but guys who dont really fancy forums, and if they dont like forums, then the forums is won by the opponent.

The way the CMs and GMs of Zhu Xian talk creates a sort of wannabee-ish image. Id prefer GMs talk in Filipino than pretend to be good in English. Hey, even Tag-lish would be acceptable.

The day has arrived. Zhu Xian has officially opened its servers...to some.

Back when Zhu Xian was rumored to be coming to the Philippines, expectations were high for the game. This is a 2nd chance to many players of Perfect World, a chance to re-live Perfect World but under new management.

Unfortunately, from that time to this day, many disappointments arose. The character customization and the channel system are just the tip of the iceberg, so to say.

Right now, my thoughts say that the arrival of Zhu Xian is good for Perfect World. It polishes the management and how they handle the game. That item mall sale is just too irresistible. The presence of CMs in the PW Boards is being felt now.

Not only does it refine the management, it also refines the population of the game. Believe it or not, the population of Zhu Xian Online will very much differ with the population of Perfect World. and I can tell you this. One game wants their CMs to speak English intelligently, the other game want their CMs to speak English (crooked or not, but most of the time crooked).

Alright, enough of that. Lets go to status reports.

Zhu Xian gave out advanced passes to a few people. Good of Bad? Bad. If Zhu Xian's features and gameplay have similarities to Perfect World, there are a number of features available inside the game that PEOPLE WITH NO ADVANCED PASSES will not be given chance to discover for themselves. Like the Ingot Trading Feature?

Zhu Xian experienced Errors when they opened the servers. Good or Bad? Bad. But this was expected.

Perfect World just had their first Territorial War Week. Good or Bad? Good. How can you leave Perfect World now that you have a piece of the map? Especially if you dont have an advanced pass. (Hey, conspiracy theory insertion here. Perfect World decided to delay the 1st territorial wars week to coincide with ZX's First Week. Good Job for the marketing. Bad for the ethical department).

Perfect World will feature new items in the item mall come November 24. That's a big knockout to Zhu Xian from Perfect World if you ask me.

Yeh, yeh. Crazy me. I've been over excited with the game I forgot to post links to info sites.

Zhu Xian Official Website
Teaser Blog from CM MeiYan
ZX Mania Blogspot
Exitializ Clan FanSite

I really wanted to post scans of the mag here but I may be violating copyright issues.
A week ago, Zhu Xian Online began to promote its hype at SM Pampanga. Based from a few friends there (who play Perfect World), they are very much surprised and excited to find out that another game identical to Perfect World is coming out. Yeh, I know. Thats what I felt when I first heard the news too. and Im still feeling it now.

Meanwhile, why not grab a copy of the latest issue of GAMES! Magazine. (Hey, isnt one popular figure from PW a contributor to the mag?). In it, you can drool on what the game has to offer. And for a devilish chuckle, you can flip the magazine to the back cover, and voila, you see Perfect World. Nice huh??? bwahahaha.

Errr, Dont I need to charge advertisement fee for this???

Finally, moon valley arrives, together with the zhu xian counter-strategy. But did everything go well according to Level Up's plan? We hypothesized the major clans quitting being an acceptable risk to LU. And so far, we see that happenning. A number of players from major clans have already expressed their plan to quit.