Square Enix's new game service
Sunday, 27th May 2007 - Source: IGN - Read 1755 timesSquare-Enix
God knows Square Enix just loves getting there games on as many systems as possible, these days. It seems they're branching into one more medium now by offering an online games service for PC users. The beta test of Game Town began May 25, and is open to members of of the Square Enix Members rewards program.
The games currently available are a series of Chocobo-themed Flash games including such titles as Chocobo Flight, Chocobo Balance Stick, and Chocobo Classmate.
IGN has provided instructions for registering on the Japanese Square Enix Members site, for those interested in giving the beta a try:
1. Enter your e-mail address at this page
2. Open your e-mail software and click on the link at the top of the e-mail from members-reg@member.square-enix.com
3. At the contract page, ignore all the text and click the right button.
4. Enter a login ID, then enter a password twice. You'll then have to select a secret question from a list and input an answer on the next input line. Your answer has to have Japanese characters in it, so we'd suggest simply selecting the first question, then cutting and pasting the text from elsewhere on the page (make sure the text doesn't have kanji characters in it -- just grab a couple of characters from the text to the left of the password entry boxes)
5. Enter a nickname (must be different from your login), select your sex, enter your birthday, then select your location and profession and click the right button at the bottom of the page. Note that the first three items can never be changed. NEVER!
6. Select your mailing preferences for receiving junk mail... err, updates... from Square Enix. For maximum ease quotient, click the second circle box from the left for both bottom items, then click the right button at the bottom of the page.
7. Ignore all the survey questions and click the right button. Or, totally screw up Square Enix's survey by making choices at random before clicking the right button.
8. At the final confirmation screen, click the right button.
That's it! Click the Square Enix Members icon and select "GameTown" midway through the page to enter the world of Chocobo-based mini-games.
Source: IGN
The games currently available are a series of Chocobo-themed Flash games including such titles as Chocobo Flight, Chocobo Balance Stick, and Chocobo Classmate.
IGN has provided instructions for registering on the Japanese Square Enix Members site, for those interested in giving the beta a try:
1. Enter your e-mail address at this page
2. Open your e-mail software and click on the link at the top of the e-mail from members-reg@member.square-enix.com
3. At the contract page, ignore all the text and click the right button.
4. Enter a login ID, then enter a password twice. You'll then have to select a secret question from a list and input an answer on the next input line. Your answer has to have Japanese characters in it, so we'd suggest simply selecting the first question, then cutting and pasting the text from elsewhere on the page (make sure the text doesn't have kanji characters in it -- just grab a couple of characters from the text to the left of the password entry boxes)
5. Enter a nickname (must be different from your login), select your sex, enter your birthday, then select your location and profession and click the right button at the bottom of the page. Note that the first three items can never be changed. NEVER!
6. Select your mailing preferences for receiving junk mail... err, updates... from Square Enix. For maximum ease quotient, click the second circle box from the left for both bottom items, then click the right button at the bottom of the page.
7. Ignore all the survey questions and click the right button. Or, totally screw up Square Enix's survey by making choices at random before clicking the right button.
8. At the final confirmation screen, click the right button.
That's it! Click the Square Enix Members icon and select "GameTown" midway through the page to enter the world of Chocobo-based mini-games.
Source: IGN