Season Two Allstars Blog

It has been a while since the last, a very long while since the last Blue Lagoon one.

Got it this morning without really trying:

Blue Lagoon -40 (Pangya Korea)

Just like on my Pink Wind -40 a few weeks (months?) ago I missed hole 1 again.. here’s what happend:

Blue Lagoon Hole 15 failure

What a shame.. but, oh well. -41 is next!

While I had been warned to not ever check out the Ntreev USA Pangya forums by various Trickster veterans, I still went there now and then to read what is going on sometimes.

With all the pretty low intelligence posts, begging for the server to open, stupid bullshit and attention whoring, today I noticed something that totally takes the cake.

Dear mother of god.

Help can be found here, here and here.

Please be advised that the poster above is so advanced that even imageblock or any of the other methods mentioned above will still keep you with a blank signature of about 350 pixels due to spamming the return button about 15 times for their signature.

It seems Ntreev is putting a lot of effort into spreading the word that they now run Pangya. For some reason it seems that Hanbit did not yet transfer them the Pangya.com domain. So about two weeks ago Ntreev asked in a news post:

Please all go to Naver.com and search for “Pangya”. Then when you see the results please click the Pangya.Ntreev.com one, not the Pangya.com one. Repeat this when you can!

What a lousy attempt at SEO. Currently they are even running an event in which GM Rami chooses the best Pangya related blog or website. While this might actually be a nice event for those running Korean blogs about Pangya the actual reason for this is obviously to generate back-links.

In their newest attempt of improving their rank for the new Pangya website they have finally changed the watermark that gets drawn onto every screenshot.

But.. Oops.. Ntreev.Pangya.com? Almost guys, just swap it and its correct. Maybe this is not a silly mistake of not actually knowing their own URL? Maybe they want people who see the screenshot to enter Ntreev+Pangya into Naver to further improve their search rankings? Yeah right! Go and fix the watermark!

Seriously Ntreev, there’s so many articles, software and even hundreds of books out there on SEO. Do yourself a favor and read some of it. In the meantime I guess proper SEO will arrive in Korea around the same time when they learn to abandon IE6. See you all in 2019!

Here are some updates that occured during the week.

I finally improved my Ice Spa record! While this is one of those courses that I absolutely dislike playing I managed to shoot a -43 today with 3 missed strokes. Maybe one day I can still improve it further.

In other news we have found out that Korea does not seem to like the Hard Gay outfit for Max. If you use it and manage to get first place in a tournament it will not show the actual outfit but rather show a blank Max with plain white wife-beater shirt and his red pants. Whoopsy was not very happy to hear about this, since he just filled up his Hard Gay outfit with control cards.

I wonder if this is actually a bug or a new feature that Ntreev introduced. Who knows.. Ntreev does a lot.. especially putting the server into maintenance mode. But its all good and I will try to be patient.

So now that A18 has official died, Pangya KR is down for the move to NTreev and I am too lazy to plug in my X360 I had decided to check out some of the other NTreev games. While talking to some of the guys also waiting for KR to come back up we decided to try out NTreev’s volleyball game “Gongbak”. After about 4 hours of downloading the client and an additional 2 hours of patching we started the game just to find out that it has been permanently shutdown today. Talk about a huge failure.

I guess sometimes it would be better to actually be able to read Korean.