Wonderland Online is a story of a group of shipwreck survivors stranded on an isolated island. Players may perform quests, solve puzzles, manufacture items and indulge in interior decoration. The graphics are anime-style 2D. The game world is based on the real-world Earth, and includes classical representations of countries such as China, Egypt, Philippines, Korea, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy, Greece, Maya and the South Pole. Characters have attributes and magical powers based on the four elements: defensive ability is based on earth, support abilities on water, attack abilities on fire and agility and speed on wind. Equipment can be obtained by Alchemy, Alchemy success rate and rarity can be defined by alchemy level and tier. Tiers are divided between None, Primary, Junior, and Superior. Initial tier is None, new tiers can be unlocked by quests, each tier got a level cap, but only require 5 for primary, and 10 for junior to trigger their respective upgrade quests, and superior caps out at level 30. The higher the tier of alchemy, the rarer the items the player can make. Most of the equipment can be enhanced by either the use of forge on the item mall, which costs points and is of exponentially decreasing success chance. Or of enhancement scrolls which ranges from 50-100% chance, these can be obtained either through the item mall or special events. Rebirth system is available at the version "Cursed Palace". Players above level 100 can pick a job ranging from:
Mage Classes:
Wit- specializes in matk
Priest- specializes in mdef
Seer- specializes in speed
Warrior Classes
Killer- specializes in atk
Warrior- specializes in def
Knight- specializes in speed
this can be obtained by a two-staged quest. In which players are able to pick their job in the end. With their level being deducted by 99 of their current level before rebirth and receiving a cape in which its stats base on the level in which the player rebirth.
Development
Wonderland Online was developed by Taiwanese studio Chinese Gamer International. Pre-production began in 2003 and formal development in 2004. Wonderland was published in Taiwan on December 14, 2005. Initially, players had to pay for subscription. The business model switched to free-to-play on May 16, 2006, with revenue generated by points cards redeemable at an in-game item mall. Wonderland was made available in mainland China on April 7, 2006, in Japan on December 3, 2007 and in Thailand on January 25, 2008. Finally, Internet Gaming Gate published Wonderland in North America on May 12, 2008.
Issues and Closure
Duping has been an issue when players found an exploit in the server code which started back in 2014 in Taurus server, which spread to other servers. Particularly Aries server back in early 2016 where most of the remaining players, specifically the mall buyers has been based when the population from the other servers declined. Facilitating a merge of all clusters into the first three, namely: Aries, Taurus, and Cancer. In the end, due to lack of updates and the license to operate contract expiring, IGG decided not to renew the contract, ending services in 1/26/2018, mall closing on 12/26/2017. IGG renewed the contract and WLO will be operating as normal after hearing out the reaction of the entire player base days after the announcement of closure. In November 2018, IGG announced a closure for the second time, for the 1/15/2019. The game developers by Chinese Gamer International had officially stopped working on the PC-version of Wonderland Online and requested all PC-versions to cease.
