Decreditation

As of June 26, my site was decredited because of no update and therefore, I removed all of screen snapshots from my sites by order of Konami Digital Entertainment.

TMO's Black Wednesday

Today (March 7, 2007, Japan Time) TMO Steering Team announced that the service will be terminated on July 31, 2007.

Many players (including me) half expected that but I cannot help saying that I am disillusioned with this news.

School integration held last year is still fresh in players mind. As far as my new home class (Class I), it has had a positive effect. However, in retrospect, it has been a beginning of the end of the game :-(

Restoration of User's Character Data

TMO Steering Team announced yesterday (November 15) that they will make a limited time offer of restoration of user's (old) character data. This offer is applicable for:

1. users who are charged at date of scheduled maintenance (November 29, 2006).
2. users who played TMO at least once since March 23, 2006.
3. users who have a valid KONAMI ID and registration code.

Users who want to utilize this offer have to apply for it from November 17, 14:00 (JST) through November 27, 11:00 (JST) online. User's character data will be restored on November 29, 2006 (during maintenance time).

Today's Update

TMO Steering Team gave the following announcement on November 15, 2006.

Updates

1. Multiplayer Capability was built into "Club Activities" (Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game-like feature).
2. High level arcana-in-a-game ("Club Activity") were implemented.
3. The item list in the school store was updated.

Bugfix

1. Some display issues and connection issue were fixed.

Overseas Student

I met an overseas student coming from US and I had a good time talking with him in the TMO world last weekend.

In reply to my e-mail, KONAMI said that international access is not (officially) supported and KONAMI did not make it clear whether
they allow or reject a connection from outside Japan. But, Voila! TMO-server accepts international access requests in fact!

School Integration Was Completed

About two months has passed since I wrote the last article. Some are static and some are changed. Of course, the most significant change is the "school" (server) integration.
Contrary to all expectations, it was completed successfully without (re-)postponement.

After logging on, I am surprised with the number of students (players).
Lots of students! Just lots of students!

I hope our brand-new "HARUKAZE" (spring breeze in English) school will be crowded with students next month (and later).

The Talk Show by Voice Actors

The talk show by voice actors (and the quiz cometition) was held last night. This was the last event in our Kagayaki high-school before school integration.

School Integration

The number of students (players) are getting decreased and decreased these days. Kagayaki high-school, the oldest school in the TMO world, is no exception.

I can easily remember that the school gymnasium was filled with students celebrating of the official launch of TMO. However, as days went by, not a small number of students dropped out because of hard-to-understand "management of schools".

This kind of depopulation is without doubt invariably fatal because depopulation leads to further depopulation. This "avalanche effect" jeopardizes the existence of TMO itself.
So, school integration will take place next month (October, 2006) to halt the progression of depopulation.

It is a good chance to get acquainted with new classmates IMHO.