Gundam Online - 160,000 Simultaneous Connections?

Hido writes "A new PC MMO title called Gundam Online: Universal Century is being developed in Japan by Bandai and Sammy , and is currently in its beta testing stage. The site says: 'We are trying pretty stimulating thing such as 160,000 people's simultaneous connection, a seamless space expression, reappearance of earth area in a full scale, and real-time-transmission in the specifications.' More info at the official Universal Century site - and here's a link to some more screenshots and movies." Quite apart from the wonderfully descriptive Engrish on the official site, has anyone seen, translated, or otherwise checked out Beta reports from this MMO title?

Comments

wooot

[Xenkar]

Gundam Fight! Ready? GOOOO!
I hope we get the chance to save the Earth from the Dark Gundam.

Actually it's being developed by...

[Cacophanus]

Bandai and Sammy are merely publishing the game (with Bandai taking the lion's share of the deal, for obvious copyright reasons). The actual developers are an Osaka based company called "Dimps". Thus far it is a truly impressive game, and one that I hope will receive an international release (and when I mean international I mean somewhere else other than Korea). Naturally, the Japanese players will rule the roost on this one.

Re:10six

[iq in binary]

I loved that game, thank you very much.

It integrated one variable into the inherent multiplayer gameplay that no other game dared employ fully.

Teamwork.

That game was famous for a reason, it was one of the most innovative games I had seen in a long time. It was the most realistic strategy game on the net when it was around, it involved everything a real military general would have to worry about.

It's not about the sheer performance of a game, it's about the reality of it. ;)

Think about it, you'll know what I mean eventually.

Reports on this game

[Hido]

Well so far it seems like there is really very little information coming out and the little that had come out was completely hammered down by Bandai. Also another problem is that out of +-16000 applications for beta testing only 500 were accepted. I remember one case where this guy ended up posting some pics from the alpha and last I heard he was crying cause he got his account nuked :p If anybody else finds some info on this game I am more then willing to do some translation so send those url's :)

Re:10six

[__past__]

I mean if you want you could be a geek programmer eating pizza all day and getting fat if you wish to and you actually get FAT.

But will you be able to post about games that let you play a geek programmer eating pizza all day and getting fat on /.?