Mail Call: Requiem: The Bloodymare Open Beta Begins 5/15/08

If you're looking for a F2P to pass the time, "Requiem: The Bloodymare" will be going into Open Beta on Thursday, May 15th, 2008.

My friends and I tried it for a while during Closed Beta and while there's nothing really new with it (aside from you being able to decap dirty Devil Reindeers and other stuff), it's done better than its other, gory F2P predecessors (2Moons for example).

The World of Ethergia beckons to worthy Temperions to challenge the horrors that walk Ethergia’s lands. An opportunity to take up this challenge is coming on May 15, 2008.

We will begin our Open Beta test on May 15, 2008 at 7pm PDT. This Open Beta test session will be open to all currently registered accounts as well as all the new Temperions that decide to join us.

All accounts and characters will be reset prior to this test session and will be placed in a new starting zone called Truba Island.

The new Requiem game client, which is available on our Client Download Section, is necessary to play during the Open Beta test.

Please note that this is still part of the beta testing process, and as such, does not fully represent the final product. Players who participate during this period may experience some lag or connection issues as we work to fine-tune and optimize our server capacity.

If you have questions, comments or wish to stay updated on the progress of the Beta Test please Register for news and notifications or check our Forums.

Requiem: Beta Key Giveaway

If you weren't a member (just need to be registered) of FilePlanet, then no worries. MMORPG.COM is giving away 5000 beta keys to "Requiem: Bloodymare" first come first serve:

http://www.mmorpg.com/betas/requiem_beta.cfm

So get those nipple pasties and booty shorts out (and I'm talking about the guys) and dive in!

Requiem, a title developed by Korea-based Gravity, focuses much on the depiction of action and cruel scenes. Violence and blood are vividly displayed in Requiem. Requiem refers to the Mass for the Dead, implying conciliation to the dead's soul. The grand and gorgeous graphics blend well with the miserable and glorious atmosphere and the unique charm of darkness.
In addition to pet raising, item collection, communication, adventure and other features commonly found in traditional MMORPGs, Requiem also incorporates such elements as sense of accomplishment, horror, competition, political alliance and betray.

And if you miss that, supposedly MMOSITE is giving away keys as well, but I'm too lazy to look around.

Requiem: Booty Shorts & Satan's Reindeer

Since there's a maintenance going on, here's another useless screenie from "Requiem." Apparently I'm going to go fight crime today...hence the (booty) shorts. Heheh.

Anyhoo, normally I go healer since I don't trust a lot of people to heal me but, just for the armour I went this route. (The plate armour pics later on look pretty hot albeit completely revealing.) Lots of killing shit (some questing) but luckily the loot drops are still abundant, and hopefully (after the maintenance) I'll get a chance to visit one of the instances for more money and more problems.

As a warning though, there are some performance problems for some folks which result in the Blue Screen o' Death every 15 minutes, but I personally have not experienced anything like that so far.

And now, for lunch!

Oh Noes: A Bloodymare Maintenance!?

I managed to get into "Requiem: Bloodymare" for like an hour before alas, it went down for maintenance. *sad*

On Wednesday, February 27th 2008, from 10am to 12pm PST

All Requiem: Bloodymare servers will be down for a regular maintenance period.

So far so good though. Character customization is a bit lacking (8 faces, 8 hair cuts but no hair colour?) but it seems that a few things have been turned off during the beta period. Still, not sure what else will be going into it.

As for the bloody part, I'm not sure if the game really constitutes the 17+ rating it seems to carry as the most violence I've seen is a wittle bit of blood splatter on my hotness and twitching/quivering bodies that explode occasionally...BUT, nothing too bad. (Woot, I guess I've been numbed.)

Anyhoo, here is the obligatory skank shot:


There are taller (bluer), and fatter (buffer) skank versions as well depending on what class you want to play. I picked the human bitch for the Templar thingy.

I think I'm on the Lintra server, but who knows. Meanwhile I hear you can turn into some beast thing. Will we see more were foxes on were tigers riding a manta ray!? I hope so!!

Come on maintenance, be done with! I want to slice and dice some moar!!

Requiem: Bloodymare Closed Beta News

Just noticed that FilePlanet is giving away closed beta codes for members starting today. HOWEVAH, not to worry, because on Friday, MMORPG.com is also giving out codes for those who want to try it. They said 2Moons (not really unless green is the new red.)

Here's the official blurb:

The Requiem: Bloodymare Closed Beta Launch is scheduled to officially begin Friday February 29th.

To guarantee access to the Requiem: Bloodymare closed beta you will need to acquire a Closed beta access code for the registered account, which will become available from the following sources.

• Starting Tuesday February 26th, Fileplanet will have a limited quantity of Closed Beta codes for Requiem, available only for Fileplanet registered users.
• Friday February 29th, MMORPG.com will have closed beta codes available.
• And also on Friday February 29th, MMOSITE.com will also have a limited quantity of closed beta codes available.

As a special promotion for early registrations by Fileplanet registered users, those accounts will have access to Requiem, 3 days before other users, starting

Tuesday February 26 at 4pm PST.

For those that register on the website but are not able to acquire a closed beta access code for that account we will be offering another chance to participate in the closed beta. As space allows we will randomly select from the pool of registered, but not game-accessible, accounts and grant them access to the Closed Beta as the Beta period progresses.

The closed beta period is scheduled to run from

Tuesday February 26, at 4pm PST until Wednesday March 26, 10am PST

The registration page for both the Forums and the Website will be made available on

Monday February 25th.

From what I can tell this is another AZN (Korean?) F2P game from Gravity Interactive. You can watch a trailer below. Meanwhile, I'm starting my 2G download: