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🌟 PICK YOUR BAND: FESTIVAL XXV 🌟

Another festival, another giveaway.
As always, go to this link to choose your favorite band for this new edition of the Festival https://forms.gle/jBSR7MCPxkc5dZqDA and, after that, you can go to #giveaways to participate for the opportunity to win 500 credits.

Also don't forget to do the same in the game to get the achievements. Go to the Festival Grounds in your city, select Festival Predictions and choose the band you think is going to win.

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Help a friend out!

A puppet master in our community is in need of help, and if you want to help them out please check out @​Ariadne Blades's GoFundMe campaign. Happy 2024 everyone! https://gofund.me/81a50a5e @Announcements

☸️ The Wheels of Kobe

As tradition dictates, it's that time again. If you have been active in the last month, you may visit the nearest temple and spin The Wheels of Kobe to randomly get 3 goodies for you.
Each credit purchase of 1000 will also grant you another chance to spin the wheels.

As usual, be careful of random messages and offers for your items.
If you are not sure how much your items might worth, you may ask it in the #market-discussion channel.
Or, head over to #help to talk about their uses.

Here's the related news;

Latest community news

Spin the Wheels of Kobe
22/11/2023
Today we handed all accomplished players who've logged in during the last month the right to spin the Wheels of Kobe! Spinning the Wheels of Kobe will grant you three rare and exclusive items, and for the next two weeks anyone buying credits will receive an extra spin for every 1000 credits purchased. You can find the wondrous wheels of fortune at any city temple. May the blessings of Kobe fall upon you!

New Items, New Guides

The Wheels of Kobe brings new items and new packages with itself, and we are in need of help to discover what effects and uses these items may possess.
If you are willing to help us, please #contact-us to get your @Librarian tattoo, so that you can create the item guides within @​Botmundo.
And who knows, @​Botmundo might grant you with its special @Botmundo's Eggplant of Gratitude if it is impressed with your contributions.
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🌟 PICK YOUR BAND: FESTIVAL XXIV 🌟

Here we are again to ask about the favorite band of this festival.
To do this just go to this link https://forms.gle/3pBkTQBqi2pNc5ci6, put your discord profile name and then choose the band you think will win the festival.
If you participate you will have the opportunity to win 500 credits.

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POPMUNDO FESTIVAL XXIV

The new festival will start tomorrow with the qualification phase. There will be bands playing all over the world to qualify for the final in Antalya.
Don’t forget to support your favorite band or go to the city you like and, with a little luck, you’ll get a free beer.

You can check #festival-xxiv to follow the festival here

Good luck to all the participants!

For more info go to Social >>> The Popmundo Festival.
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Earthquake Humanitarian Aid Campaign

Turkey was hit by two big earthquakes in 24 hours (M7,7 and M7,6) and many aftershocks. Current casualties are 31.643 deaths and the number continues to increase, as officials report. A week had passed, yet people are still being rescued as we speak. Survivors are living in tents, and are in need of aid. If you would like to donate to organisations to help people in need, please do so by checking the link at the bottom. Ahbap is one of the non-governmental organisation that is currently in the impact zone, and open to donations. Thank you for being aware of the situation. @📣 Announcements

Ahbap Organization
IBAN (EUR): TR15 0006 4000 0021 0212 1502 77
IBAN (USD): TR32 0006 4000 0021 0212 1502 62
IBAN (GBP): TR37 0006 4000 0021 0212 2608 49
SWIFT: ISBKTRIS
https://ahbap.org/disasters-turkey

For more organisations: https://www.reddit.com/r/Turkey/comments/10w7nbc/how_to_help_turkey_earthquake_fundraisers/

New update on the credit shop page. @📣 Announcements

Important
This game has been online since 2004 and its glory days are long gone. Please keep this in mind when purchasing and spending credits. Although the ambition is to keep the game online it may shut down with little or no notice depending on the situation, and you will not get a refund when it is no longer available.

From the same thread:

Q: Will the game shut down in x months?
A: There is no estimated timeplan for this. The intention is to let the game keep running for as long as possible. There are some fixed costs related to the operations, such as server costs etc, and as long as the income covers all that, we see no reason to terminate the game unless we run into some unforeseen technical issue which is beyond repair.

So to sum this very important question up. You will be able to continue playing the game, role playing, interacting with friends and loved ones. The main difference being that we won’t be able to add new features for you to play with.

Q: When/if that day comes, will we players get some kind of heads up?
A: If that day comes and it’s due to a financial question, then yes. If the game would go offline due to technical issues that can’t be repaired in a timely manner (remember, we developers will have other day jobs) it all depends on the nature of the problem and how complicated it might be to fix.

Q: Can’t you just sell the game?
A: In theory yes, but it’s not that simple. The game has been built for almost two decades with (in parts) ancient technology. We’re not ruling anything out of course, and a potential buyer with the required skills and knowledge could be interesting to hear out. However, and we can’t stress this enough, it takes a multitude of skill sets, and an extreme amount of technical knowhow to keep a game like this online. Anyone with any experience of running an online multiplayer game can attest to this.

We also feel a great responsibility when it comes to handling your personal data and roleplaying history. Selling all that player data to a third party we don’t know seems really, really wrong somehow. The last thing we want to see is your messages and blogs misused someplace online.

Q: Why don’t you advertise the game and bring in more players?
A: We have tried different ways to find new players over the years. The major obstacle is to actually keep new players rather than finding new ones. The game is intentionally slow, and this isn’t suitable for everyone. 20 years ago this appealed more to people than it does today, and in order to compete with fast paced mobile games today, the game itself would have to be something completely different in order to reach the masses.

Q: Is Billy-Bob fine?
A: Yes, he’s perfectly fine. He’s already busy working elsewhere.

This is the latest forum post/community news from the developers, and it is an important news that everyone might want to read. So I am going to ping @everyone for this one. Head over to the #main-chat to discuss it with the community.