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    RPGamer - News Bulletin - Free Square Enix MMO Coming Stateside

    San Jose based game publisher OnNet USA has agreed to publish the Square Enix developed MMO Concerto Gate in the States. Concerto Gate is the sequel to the MMO Cross Gate, which saw great success in Japan and other Asian markets since its release in July of 2001.

    Concerto Gate is marked by its ease of familiarity to those fans of console based RPGs through its use of randomly generated battles. The game presents in an art style similar to that of Ragnarok Online, though with a Square Enix touch of flair. The visuals display a creative cross between the Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon and Seiken Densetsu titles.

    Unique to Concerto Gate is a world map with "terra generating" elements that will show changes done to landscapes over large period of time. Forests may disappear through extensive tree cutting and small holes dug to search for treasure may eventually grow into larger ones.

    OnNet USA is preparing a public beta to begin in the early months of 2008. Concerto Gate will be free-to-play to anyone wanting to experience it.

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    Free MMO? So no cost at all, ever? Wow. I hope they do it in Europe, too, it sounds interesting. Although it all comes down to gameplay... RO sucked in that regard, big time.
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    this sounds kinda cool

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    I can't wait! This is going to be awesome.

    Here is a screenshot I found, it looks pretty cool. http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/7...ateshotow9.jpg

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
    Free MMO? So no cost at all, ever? Wow. I hope they do it in Europe, too, it sounds interesting. Although it all comes down to gameplay... RO sucked in that regard, big time.
    Je suis d'accord. RO was also horribly presented; the explaining dialogue was boring and there was way too much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
    Free MMO? So no cost at all, ever? Wow. I hope they do it in Europe, too, it sounds interesting. Although it all comes down to gameplay... RO sucked in that regard, big time.



    I wanna try this game :3... I hope it doesnt go down before I can try it... like the Tales of MMORPG.

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    It's sounds cool. Especially the no monthly fee part.
    I just hope they won't release too much expansion packs for it.

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    I don't so much hope they wont' release to many expansions as I hope they wont' release them to fast.

    Anyway, looks interesting.

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    MOAR.

    This looks interesting. The graphics look pretty nice. Very sweet chibi style, looks a bit like DS FF games, no?

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    RO wasn't that bad. It was fun if you had a consistent group of friends to play it with and before they started tweaking with it too much and adding too many new locations and classes and such, many of which felt a bit empty.

    This sounds quite interesting though and I hope we hear more about this.
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    I love MMOs. Free's even better. I just hope it's not a life-draining time-sink (the reason I quit FFXI) like most other MMOs.

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    I'm eager to play this one.

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    Doesn't look too interesting... I'll probably try it, seeing as it's going to be free.
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    Oooh! Cross gate has some killer soundtrack

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