Y'know, I had to check th date when I saw this... Not april first, So it's real... And will probably be a Hit. I can see plenty of people getting into this. I've already posted two Blogs about it... But there is a problem that comes to mind; Adults looking for kids. I hope to God this isn't the most contravercial game to date... I'm hoping that it won't be, at least.

Originally posted by Delanor

I did some research, and now I understand why I did not know the franchise. It is a direct rip-off of Nijntje by Dick Bruna (known as Miffy world-wide). It never replaced the original over here.

QFT

Miffy is the orignal and waay better than that coldly-calculated commercial ripoff Kitty.

Hello Kitty is Miffy on crack. If Miffy is UO then Hello Kitty is WoW.

it's friday 13 joke

Ive never heard of Miffy... and I knew about HK back in the 80s I think.

Originally posted by observer

Sadly, this sounds better than most current MMOs out there right now. 

Uhmmm....well, I have to agree.

Honestly, I think it sounds just adorable.  I don't know if it will be able to trap and enslave me for 4 years like WoW did, but I'm willing to give it a go.  Sounds more casual.  Personally, I'm getting pretty bent about having to be so hardcore in games to "keep up with the Joneses," so to speak.  I like immersive games, but WoW, at one point became like another full time JOB for me, constantly having to make raids and "do my job," so that our guild/company could OMGWTFBBQPWN everyone else on the server.

Blech.  It's time for me to play something more light-hearted and just have an enjoyable guilty pleasure.  Aren't games SUPPOSED to be FUN?  I'm not having fun with any of the classic MMOs anymore, so.....

BRING IT ON, HELLO KITTY!!  I'll be there with bells on!  (And maybe a cute little diamond-studded collar too.)

Rofl

 Lets all play nice

Originally posted by markoraos

Hmm...

Skill-based and with a very heavy emphasis on crafting...

Player housing - and you get a garden too!

This sounds disturbingly close to what some old fogies would consider a perfect MMO....

You may be joking but I couldn't help but think "gosh, it's everything I've been wishing a new MMO would come out with" since UO.

Now the question is.. is housing instanced?

I am a female gamer but I have never liked Hello Kitty.. except a mild interest in the pencil cases sporting 15 secret compartments when I was about 7. But if I can get past the ridiculous cuteness the gameplay actually sounds pretty appealing.

Hold on is this a joke??? Its not even april 1st. Someone please tell me this is a joke and its not real?

Originally posted by kitsunegirl

Ive never heard of Miffy... and I knew about HK back in the 80s I think.

So?

Nijntje was first published in 1955.

"In 1964, Nijntje appeared in Japan as Usako and later as Miffy (or Miffy-chan). She became so popular that Japanese marketers soon realized her commercial potential as a fashion icon. They knew that the Japanese tweens, teenagers and even twenty-somethings would love her simple design and cuteness (“kawaii” in Japanese).

In 1974, the Japanese company Sanrio adapted her to Japanese fascinations, which feature not bunnies, but kitties, and not the Dutch, but the British culture. Miffy, the Dutch bunny rabbit, became Hello Kitty, the English kitten.

In an interview, Dick Bruna said that Sanrio admitted to being inspired by Miffy. Sanrio has, however, never admitted this in public, and the copyright has never been worked out."

But that is not our concern, of course. Just interesting to know. For me it explains why Hello Kitty look so much like Nijntje. My first thought was "hey did Dick Bruna make that?" Apparently not.

Originally posted by Delanor

Originally posted by kitsunegirl

Ive never heard of Miffy... and I knew about HK back in the 80s I think.

 

So?

Nijntje was first published in 1955.

"In 1964, Nijntje appeared in Japan as Usako and later as Miffy (or Miffy-chan). She became so popular that Japanese marketers soon realized her commercial potential as a fashion icon. They knew that the Japanese tweens, teenagers and even twenty-somethings would love her simple design and cuteness (“kawaii” in Japanese).

In 1974, the Japanese company Sanrio adapted her to Japanese fascinations, which feature not bunnies, but kitties, and not the Dutch, but the British culture. Miffy, the Dutch bunny rabbit, became Hello Kitty, the English kitten.

In an interview, Dick Bruna said that Sanrio admitted to being inspired by Miffy. Sanrio has, however, never admitted this in public, and the copyright has never been worked out."

But that is not our concern, of course. Just interesting to know. For me it explains why Hello Kitty look so much like Nijntje. My first thought was "hey did Dick Bruna make that?" Apparently not.

So? I wasnt saying you made stuff up... I just said I had never heard of Miffy.

Originally posted by kitsunegirl

Originally posted by Delanor

Originally posted by kitsunegirl

Ive never heard of Miffy... and I knew about HK back in the 80s I think.

So?

Nijntje was first published in 1955.

"In 1964, Nijntje appeared in Japan as Usako and later as Miffy (or Miffy-chan). She became so popular that Japanese marketers soon realized her commercial potential as a fashion icon. They knew that the Japanese tweens, teenagers and even twenty-somethings would love her simple design and cuteness (“kawaii” in Japanese).

In 1974, the Japanese company Sanrio adapted her to Japanese fascinations, which feature not bunnies, but kitties, and not the Dutch, but the British culture. Miffy, the Dutch bunny rabbit, became Hello Kitty, the English kitten.

In an interview, Dick Bruna said that Sanrio admitted to being inspired by Miffy. Sanrio has, however, never admitted this in public, and the copyright has never been worked out."

But that is not our concern, of course. Just interesting to know. For me it explains why Hello Kitty look so much like Nijntje. My first thought was "hey did Dick Bruna make that?" Apparently not.

 

So? I wasnt saying you made stuff up... I just said I had never heard of Miffy.

And I was not saying that you did. We are both so clever.

This game is going to rock, the word is this game is comming out with FFA PVP and a hard core permadeath PVP server.

Originally posted by telbar

This game is going to rock, the word is this game is comming out with FFA PVP and a hard core permadeath PVP server.

Everything has to be craftable, and player build cities!

The death pentalties in this game are going to make EQ death penalties look like a joke! Naked corps runs will be the norm and level losses at death will be very common.

A game that takes women out of my game? Sounds good to me! Bring on the care-bear game! Sorry ladies, no insult intended, but sadly most women I have met in MMO's are attention getters and usually make the guild dramas what they are. Guys just want stuff and to kill things, you want attention and more attention and ummm.. more of that.

 So I say bring on the kitty and let the mice play elswhere ;)

I am really looking forward to the release of HKO. I have been really impressed with what I thought was originally a fairly unknown game. I admit that I was fairly skeptical (like others) at first as a Hello Kitty MMORPG just sounds...well...a bit far fetched.

But now, it seems that the actual appeal of this game is its "far fetched-ness". The graphics look super cute. It will be interesting to see an MMORPG that doesn't contain the usual consortium of swords, spells, and disgruntled fantasy beasts. Hello Kitty may have the potential to stir up quite a lot in the MMORPG world. I don't think the "cuteness" factor has ever been pushed like this, so I am quite intrigued.

The "Hello Cthulhu" and "Hello Kitty 40,000" fan art is a funny example of HKO's popularity already with the online gaming community. There's a bunch of cool stuff like that floating around, check out these giant mech robots for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erGvc9HThgM

So yeah, I am quite looking forward to seeing HKO in action.

I just want to enjoy the cuteness of HKO? Why not?

Haha well I am not going to lie. You are going to love HKO then. It is CUTE

Might finally be an MMO my wife would try.   Sounds fun.  I know my friend's little girls are going to love it.  They already like to walk around in his Battlefield 1942  and play house in Stalingrad.    "O.K., this one is going to be my house because it has lots of windows ."

I'm an MMO freak and would try it just for the hell of it because it's different.  Why not?  

Bring on the KiityPwn !

Originally posted by frankinla

  Bring on the KiityPwn !

Bring on the kitty style PvP! haha