Seth

We will likely do it once the game is released.

When Open Beta happens, the game will grow a lot. This is to see where we stand, if it matters if people have a high ping.

How many people want us to invest back into hosting a dedicated North America server starting with Open Beta? It is expensive for us to host two servers and we want to know if the community wants us to do this, we will switch back and forth every month for events. We can host twice the amount of events possibly in the future if we have enough resources and lock your character to having one event participation a month.

You can only block 100 people, so use your blocks conservatively. I will be adding a UI to remove blocks in the friends GUI, just not right away.

We're going to keep secret areas hidden, players can put it on the Wikia although we want players to look for it. Then they can share it in the community, it is always great to have hidden things in a game and be the first one to find it.

Updated original post. " We will punish users who are causing problems and start watching their behaviors in-game, before officially banning them. Reporting allows us to find the troublemakers without interfering with player's experience in-game. It also provides us an easy way to dish out punishments and provide a more private experience for players. " I also updated GIF of Shop preview.

I am posting this on Social Media, but we have made a lot of big changes in the past couple of months. The new rendering system way outperforms the old client. We had to upgrade performance, so players could play it in full 1080P on their monitors since we only supported 1024x768 previously. Now we support all resolutions up to 1920x1080.

A quick update, we're planning on releasing Beta sometime during December.

Tests change, but sometimes they will repeat. The questions will never exactly the same for each examination, just the way the exam is run.

I am not much of a PvP person in the game, it looks bad that I stand still a lot. We need to get a player to record footage or something then send it in, for us to make videos. Or rather we can go ahead and just do both, but kind of try to record as the Akatsuki for instance. Each Akatsuki member will record footage then we can combine them.

Dear Ninja, The first official attack from the Akatsuki, more types of events like these will come. Make sure to stay up-to-date for upcoming events, we will make announcements for special ones ahead of time going forward! We had this fun little event several months ago, although we've been trying to find a Media person to make the video edit for a long time. Special thanks to @Jester. You can find his YouTube in the description of both the 2nd Chunin Exams and this video. I have made sure to edit them to include it, to give proper credit and to thank him for his hard work! The game is just getting started, we will continue to have unique events like this one and post them on YouTube for everyone to see. These will be snapshots and contain the best parts of the event, we will try to go midway of the duration we did with the 2nd Chunin Exams making them last around 30 minutes. This is also one of our plans to make the game grow. We're getting better at creating videos and content, that is super professional and RP-oriented. I wanted to make it up to you guys for not producing the best video for the 2nd Chunin Exams, since we made a lot of mistakes and are working on making our content better. A special thanks to everyone that participated in the event!

We're no longer accepting anymore Media using this format. It is being closed.

Yes. Open Beta is going to be the last wipe. Open Beta testers will keep their progress, the real difference is the release of the game which will happen in the next 3-5 months will take place with incomplete content aka call Villages. Although, we will add the content over time and add patch expansions. Sitting around Beta or Alpha for 2-3 years is probably not the best course of action for the game, to complete all the content that a MMO needs to survive. So, we're focusing on core systems and replayability then adding content as we go.

Closed Beta is going to last about a month to test new features and then wipe, to go Open Beta. A lot of the Open Beta features were released early to test during Alpha, which is why it lasted so long.

Thanks for the support everyone, we're grateful for such the patience.

No, we're too busy to do that. Sorry guys. The main focus is to move the game to the next stage, doing another Chunin Exams will postpone development on the Sand Village completion and additional content. Chunin Exams are meant to attract players to the game and to get them involved in the community, but it is not as important as the content expansion. Once we get our team stable and everyone working consistently on the game, we will be able to host one once a month or every 2 months at the very least.

This is an early announcement letting the community know that the game is still being worked on. We are going to try to get Closed Beta out in 1 - 2 months. @Rory will be back to work on the game starting on the 23rd. Sorry it is taking so long guys, we really do apologize.

My Battle.net account is Helladen#1373. I do play Overwatch competitively, I am Gold right now at 2.2k rating going to try to get Diamond since the matchmaking in it is far superior than League of Legends and rewards skilled players vs. grouping with friends.

As a side note, we will be improving the audio quality next time and include the game sounds. It was cut this time, in order to include music for each scene that was unique to the part of the exam - since we recorded the game music on top of the game sound rather than separating them. Thanks again everyone!

Don't worry, my Chunin Exam will be much different than Rory's. There was plenty of time to answer the question, it was designed to be hard. People stood around confused.

Dear Ninja, We had a Chunin Exams event on the 23rd of July, quite a long time ago. Sorry it took us so long to get the recap up. We've cut it up to shorten it and basically showcase the important parts of the event. Let us know if we did anything wrong and we will improve on the next one. @HypnoMan was expected, but he didn't show up on time and had to fill in for him. There may no longer be a voice shoutcaster, we are not sure what you guys prefer. Let us know! This is also still a big work in progress and we are still improving our performances. Our next step is to get Closed Beta out! We know people are salty about losing both Chunin Exams and feel like they were cheated, we won't make each one feel like this and are making improvements. Even though, we want it to be hard - sometimes it can be too hard. We will try to mix it up a bit and not always have the same host. The 3rd Chunin Exams will be hosted by me. Shoutcaster @Seth Editor @Jester

@blackThunder1 you got to get better. Just practice and look at other people who edit videos. We don't have time to teach people, if we did then we'd just make the video ourselves.

Nope. We're looking for someone to edit Chunin Exam videos monthly and provide a video every 2 weeks. That's why we're looking for 2 people incase one person is absent.

There's one more submission we will accept. If you were not accepted yet, it means the video didn't meet our minimum requirements of quality.

@Hephaestus Upload it to a 3rd party website and include the URL like you would in a normal post. I suggest using Dropbox, MEGA or Google Drive.