March 5th, 2013 – WEBZEN Inc. (WWW.WEBZEN.COM), the Next Generation of Free-to-Play Online Games, announced Season 8 Update for the Full 3D MMORPG, MU Online. The new update will be released with exciting new contents such as the new map, ‘Debenter’ as well as the level cap increase from Level 702 to 730.
Debenter: Darkness Valley is the newly added territory where monsters are summoned by the God of Darkness, ‘Kundun’ in Archeron. Players will experience even darker and creepier in-game atmosphere compared to other areas and battle against many types of new monsters that have never been discovered before.
Along with this latest update, ‘Jewel of Pandora’ new mining system through a new item called ‘Pandora Pick’ will be added. Players can use it to obtain up to 1,000 ‘Jewel of Bless’ in a mining area and enjoy the new 10 pentagrams for characters over level 300. Also, new party/guild matching system and SNS system via ‘Facebook’ on mobile phones will be available for the convenience of the players
Additionally, Monthly PVP tournament, ‘Chaos Castle Survival of the Fittest,’ will be held on all servers. Each winning player will enter Mu Online’s Hall of Fame, and also receive ‘Wings of the Conqueror’ as the prize.
Jihun Lee, Head of Global publishing, said, “We would like to show our appreciation towards our consistent MU Online players who have shown continuous support.” Also he said, “We hope players can experience the excitement from the newly updated contents and more that will continuously come.”
Meanwhile, players can participate in the various update events and promotions from 7th of March to 21th of March. All players will be rewarded 200% EXP, and free ‘Gold Channel ticket’, new transformation rings and various free cash items will be given the players during event period.
More information about ‘MU Online’ and ‘Season 8 update’ can be found at the official Facebook community (www.facebook.com/MUWEBZEN) and website (http://muonline.webzen.com/).
