Dear Asda Story Community,

Asda Story has been with GamesCampus for almost 3 years, and we've had our ups and downs along the way, but overall we've had a lot of fun with the game and hope that you all did too. Unfortunately we have reached the final leg of our journey with Asda Story. Due to changes in development focus and roadblocks and shortcomings built into the core game systems of the very original version of Asda at Game N Game almost 5 years ago, the original Asda Story was forced to struggle against them and Asda 2 was developed in an attempt to fix these issues with a new vision for the Asda universe.

While we hoped and intended to run the Asda Story and Asda 2 titles simultaneously and indefinitely at GamesCampus, shifts in development team focus at the global level including the service closure of the Korean and Japanese Asda Story versions and subsequent lack of development resources, a drastically decreased community population here at GamesCampus with the release of the sequel, and other issues have caused MaxOn Soft (the game's development studio) and GamesCampus (we, the publishers of the North American and UK version) to come to a joint decision regarding the future of Asda Story.

It is with great regret we must announce that the closure of the original Asda Story's game service and servers will occur on August 1, 2011.

Item Mall Closure Maintenance

The Item Mall (both in-game and web mall) will be closing tonight, June 29, 2011. We will be having a short maintenance at 8pm PDT which should last for about 30 minutes.

Final Month of Service & Compensation Item Packages

While Asda Story may be closing in a month, we'll make sure we go out with a bang! Our last maintenance will be on 7/5 and should hopefully bring a fix to the current events, the return of Happy Hour, along with making a new Attendance Box full of Upgrade Items available to all players. Please stay tuned to the News and Event notices, as we WILL be finishing up Asda Idol (prizes will be discussed and revised) along with other fun events such as 10x Exp, 10x Drops, a Free Set Day event, and many more! If there's anything you'd like to do in the final month event-wise, please let us know and we'll see if we can make it happen!

We would also like to thank all those in-game helpers over the years, and a huge thanks to our GAs.  They have been released as of tonight, so make sure you give them your thanks if you see them around!  DQAs will still be answered, but they will be subject to whatever time I ([GM] Sabre) have left to do them, as I will be helping out on other games.

For those of you tried-and-true Asda Story players, we will be creating compensation packages for those of you that wish to move over to Asda 2 or try the popular game Heroes in the Sky here at the GamesCampus.com web portal. More information on these will be released in the next 1~2 weeks, and we'll do our best to make them worth your while!

It is truly sad to see Asda Story go, but we would like to thank each and every one of you for enjoying the ride with us over the past 3 years. We deeply appreciated your time, interest, support, and enthusiasm since the summer of 2008. Asda truly had a unique community that kept many here, including our GC team's Community Manager [GM] Sabre and former Community Manager now Associate Producer [AP] Aris whom were both hired directly from the Asda Story player community during its run, and it will be missed. We hope to continue our ties with you in the future in Asda 2 and other games around the GamesCampus web portal, and look forward to enjoying one more month with you here in Asda Story.

Sincerely,
Asda Story Support Team
[PD] Alpha, [AP] Aris, & [GM] Sabre