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Berlin, 03/09/2010: Frogster is today releasing
the first glimpses of two new regions which are to be released with
the up-coming expansion ‘Atlantis’ on 22/09/2010 in
Bounty Bay Online
including new high-level instances.
New land has been sighted by players on their journeys on the
seven seas with the fourth add-on to the seafaring game. The
heavily forested Bimini Islands rise majestically out of the warm
currents of the Caribbean and lure adventurers with their legendary
secret – after much research it has been shown these islands
are the most likely location for the once sunken city of Atlantis.
Players will find deep in the verdant island labyrinth a hidden
entrance to the mythical city guarded by aggressive and fearsome
creatures.
Experienced players who enter the sunken city will soon learn
that despite the impressive architecture and romantic submarine
landscapes, this is a place where outsiders are not welcome. Sea
monsters and violent natives lurk in the various regions, Atlaszon,
Possedo Bay, and the Seabed Cave, lying in wait for unsuspecting
visitors from the world above. But players also have other
opportunities to prove their skills since the ‘King’s
Tomb’ instance provides new challenges spread over two floors
and available in two difficulty levels.
After having mastered the instance using the first difficulty
setting players will be able to show their worth by completing the
demanding two-level dungeon in elite mode as well. Even though the
dungeon looks the same in both difficulty levels, the players
battling through the instance on the more difficult setting will
come across much fiercer and more numerous opponents. But no matter
which difficulty level brave adventurers choose to tackle the
instance on, they will all come face-to-face with the terrifying
winged creature, ‘Atlans’, whose secrets must be
brought into the light.
For more information on the mythical underwater world and the
expansion please visit our official website:
www.bountybayonline.com/en/atlantis.
About Bounty Bay Online
With Bounty Bay Online players enter the Age of Discoveries from
the 15th to the 17th century. MMO fans are able to choose an online
career as a merchant, sailor, fisherman, pirate or adventurer and
make their fortune at land and on the seven seas. Alone or with a
guild of players, many adventures and gripping quests lie on their
way. Thousands of ancient discoveries on all continents like the
pyramids of Gizah or the Chinese Wall are waiting to be explored.
After exciting PvP combat at land and on the seas, strong guilds
can take control of cities and entire colonies and thus decide upon
their destiny. Bounty Bay Online features a unique trade system
based on supply and demand. In April 2008 Frogster has started a
free-to-play server with an integrated item shop as an alternative
to the subscription model, so that new sailors can now roam the
Seven Seas without any fixed costs. More information is available
on
www.bountybayonline.com.
Features
- Hundreds of authentic ship models
- Land and sea combat
- More than 60 realistic towns and harbours in historical
authentic style
- Guilds can conquer towns
- Trade system based on supply and demand
- Free Colony Add-on: Guilds can now found their own colonies and
then decide upon the rules in their territories.
- The comprehensive expansion ‘Beyond the Horizon’
allows a complete circumvention of the world for the first time and
will contain new cities, one new continent, some new instances and
many new quest.
- Starting from 22/09/2010: The fourth expansion,
‘Atlantis’ offers players new island regions,
instances, and more high-level content
Facts
- Launch of the German version - February 2007
- Launch of the English version - September 2007
- Launch of the French version - November 2008
- Over 350.000 registered players in Europe
- Hundreds of active guilds
Frogster – We take you to a new world!
The Berlin based Frogster Interactive Pictures AG , listed on
the stock exchange, has focused on the growth sector of massively
multiplayer online games (MMOGs) at an early stage already. The
company licenses, markets and operates its virtual worlds for
millions of players in Europe, Asia and North America. In Europe
its subsidiary Frogster Online Gaming GmbH is taking care of the
operating business of the Frogster group. The Korean joint venture
Frogster Asia Co. Ltd. based in Seoul develops new MMO games with
an internal team and markets virtual worlds in Asia. Frogster
America Inc. based in San Francisco, USA, markets and operates MMO
games in North America. At their offices in Berlin, Seoul and San
Francisco, the Frogster group employs more than 150 staff members
in the fields of game development, licensing, IT, web design and
web development, product management, marketing, PR, web publishing,
community management, customer support, hosting, sales, billing and
finance/administration. In the year 2008, Frogster won the
“Landmark in the Land of Ideas”, a competition under
the patronage of the German President Dr. Horst Köhler.
Additional information is available at:
www.frogster.de
Contact:
Frogster Online Gaming GmbH
Josephine Gehrke
PR Manager
Hardenbergstraße 9A
D-10623 Berlin
T +49 (0) 30 - 28 47 01 -46
F +49 (0) 30 - 28 47 01 -11
E
jgehrke@frogster.de
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