Whew!

What a loooong and tiring week. But as my boss once said, “it’s that happy kind of tired” – knowing that we gave it our best and the efforts proved to be fruitful. A lot of things happened for the games this week. As is usual, I had to meet with my brand managers and get updates from all the games, attend a million meetings and then finish up on some reports and slides. Priorities for this week was hands down for Ragnarok, of course. With the 4-character slot update causing the most frenetic acitivities in the office.

I’ll summarize some of the things that happened in our little world of Philippine online games and MMORPG after the jump…

Here’s what happened this week:

• Ragnarok had the 4-character-slot fiasco. Amidst some technical problems, we still managed to put it up for the main worlds.
• And then the eliminations for the RWC took place. Waukeen blogs about the champions of Tyr and Baldur… and what a battle it was. Armed and Loaded took home the title for Tyr while Sustainers of the Realms did their part to capture the crown for Baldur.
• RF announced the new song made for the game by Razorback. Now, it’s available for download too! (see post below).
• I sat down with the game teams to come up with final prizes for Level Up LIVE 2007. Wanting it of course to be badder than last year…. more on this on a separate update.
• I’ve seen some level 50+ characters in Perfect World already! And I’m surprised that the players level that fast. We also have (finally) a NEW Community Manager for Perfect World and his first task is to fix and reward the Closed Beta Winners for the game.
• We also had planning sessions on Episode 15 – Rachel. I posted an update on the features of that patch too.

Really long week, dudes. This weekend I plan to catch up on sleep, DVD and probably a little leisure time in Perfect World or the PS2. Good thing it’s a long weekend (Gloria-esque “holiday” on Monday, June 11). Next week, it’s back to work as I work with the RO team on Episode 15 and then grind the RF team for episode 2 and push them to expedite it and get the thing moving. Lothan knows that all 3 races are bored to death now.

I guess that’s it for this post. How about you? How do you plan to spend your weekend?