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Flyff (short for Fly for Fun) is a fantasy MMORPG by Korean development company Aeonsoft(Now Gala Labs). Flyff is a fairly typical party-oriented grinding game where no character can do everything, and efficient play requires working in groups to level up by killing monsters, or Masquerpets. Its main distinctiveness lies in its flying system; flying is the normal method of transportation for characters above level 20.
Flyff is now hosted in 13 countries and 10 languages. It claims to have been played by over 6 million people.
In December 2002, Aeonsoft developed the first provisional prototype of the game, at the time called Clockworks Ltd. In September 2003 the company changed the name to Flyff and started the first closed beta in Korea. In July 2004, it won the Game of the Month award from the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Over the next year it was launched in three more countries: China, Taiwan, and Thailand. In November 2005, the US received the closed beta, which ran for a month before Flyff was commercially launched in December.
Roika is a fictional plain, once harmonious but then plunged into chaos by the offspring of the goddess Rhisis. Bent on the destruction of all life, the dark goddess Shade (a representation of evil) of the Three-Part Gods set the population adrift in the great sea of clouds and infected the land with Masquerpets (monsters) to complete her task. In an attempt to aid the humans her sister Bubble split the land up, to try to separate the humans from the masquerpets, into what is now called Madrigal. Exiled by eight Heroes in the Great War, Shade has now returned.
